During the French Reign of Terror, a period of time September 5th, 1793, to July 27th, 1794, resulted in the executions of 16,594 people by guillotine and an estimated 25,000 people by summary executions, ("Reign of Terror | French History." Encyclopedia Britannica Online). The Reign of Terror occurred after the fall of the French Monarchy. Instituted by Maximilien Robespierre, tens of thousands of political enemies, royalists, and those who opposed the revolution were executed. After the fall of…
beginning of the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was not justified in many ways, simply because the internal threats were never all that harmful, the external threats were very weak, and the extreme methods were used in a time of need and with unnecessary physical force. It was not justified because there is absolutely no reason to kill 20,000-40,000 with the guillotine. He killed a thousand people and took away their rights. This was Robespierre’s way of trying to make peace. “Terror is nothing other…
due to a new constitution and other laws being put in place that didn’t mesh with their culture. Due to this situation desperate times also called for desperate measures in which France was forced to take. Thus, the entire Reign of Terror in France began. The Reign of Terror in France was a period that the community had never seen before. An official definition of the entire period from our textbook is “the period from 1793 to 1794, during which Robespierre’s Committee…