Main reasons: * CGS and CPS against Robespierre * Robespierre lost support of Sans-Culottes by executing main leaders, disbanding armless revolutionaries. * Prior supporters turned against Terror - Danton * Growing extremism, even though war improved
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The Reign of terror was put to an end by a vote of the National Convention of 9 Thermidor of year II (July 27,1794), that arrested and executed Maximilian Robespierre and several of his associated.
Then France was given the new Constitution of Year III, and a new government system based on a bicameral legislature ruled by a five-member committee called The Directory, that was established on November 11,1795.
Too many people were afraid for their heads and also some people saw the Terror as a threat to business, so Robespierre and his followers were arrested and executed.
The death of the French leaders of the Reign of Terror like Robespierre who was executed on th guillotine and Marat who was murdered in his own bathtub.
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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
The thermidorean reaction was the dismantling of the machinery of the reign of terror. The Reign of Terror occurred in France from 1793 to 1794.
Robespierrie started the Reign of Terror, and it came to an end when he was arrested and guillotined by his enemies.
The Reign of Terror is also known simply as "The Terror."