The Committee of Public Safety under the leadership of Robespierre.
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The Reign of Terror was a period of violence during the French Revolution. It lasted from September, 1793 to July 1794 and is named for the many executions of those denounced as "enemies of the state", mainly in Paris but also in other areas of France. Most were guillotined (beheaded), as were King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, earlier in 1793.
The red terror was a campain of mass arrest and executions in the post WW1 soviet Union It is also the name given to a bloody episode in Ethiopia in the 1970ies, and in Spain during the Spanish civil war. It is also the name given to the last weeks of the french revolution
the guillotine because it was used so often during the reign of terror and most of all the Great terror, which occurred during the reign of terror
Executions began the French Revolution at the Bastille. They were not state sanctioned, but they were much more then murder or simple mob violence. The actual Reign of Terror goes from 27 June 1793 until 27 July 1793 when thousands met their death.
The reign of terror