Reign of Terror Essay

For week 6 discussion we were asked to read “The Grievances of Carcassonne”, “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”, “Virtue and Terror’: Speech to the Convention (February 5, 1794)”, “On the Realities of Power (1796)” and “The Only Salvation Lies in Hereditary Power’ (December 1804)”. During this time in class we were focusing on revolutions, such as the French Revolution and the reasons that caused the revolution. People were unhappy with their monarchy, there was a financial…

As Charles Dickens once said, “Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!” The French Revolution has been seen as a war that caused death, pain, and prosperity. Many primary documents, like Simon Schama Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, have mentioned that the amount of human lives lost during the French Revolution was unnecessary. The amount of deaths in the revolution explains the outcome of how much violence took place. Was the…

Looking into the eyes of the traitor. Hate fills every bit of your heart. All you can think is “I want them dead”. These were the type of thoughts that authority figures would think back during the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was a big part of the French Revolution. The Reign of Terror was the killing of hundreds of people who were suspected of committing treason and fighting for Prussia/Austria. Individuals argued if this was justified or in other words if they had a necessary reason…

the terror in France was growing bigger in fear every day that passed. During this time, any individual who broke the laws was suspected of opposing the rules, they were arrested and executed on the guillotine, without trial in most cases. During this period, more than 16 thousand people died from charges and suspects against the revolution. However, Robespierre and his followers were overpowered by their opponents in the Convention, whom Robespierre accused of traitors earlier in his reign on…

a system or regime of terror’ and ‘Terrorist as an agent or partisan of the Terror that arose through abuse of revolutionary measures ’. Edmund Burke, British politician and philosopher, published in 1796 Letters on a Regicide Peace in which he used the word ‘terrorist’. It marks the first time that the word entered the English language. Consequently, the repressive system of Robespierre introduces into the political vocabulary a new form of government, a new form of terror. Although the French…

Starting off with the bottom class individuals. I would prefer to be in the French revolution if I was part of the lower class. Although famine, taxes, and inflation were negative externalities of the Revolution, I feel the formation of the new form of government from Third Estate was a history changing revolution to be a part of. They created a document that reflected the rights of every individual, not just the nobility. They earned their freedom and as Locke said, “the government’s purpose…

The Reign of Terror was a period of violence that was exacted upon enemies of the French revolution. During this time, Napoleon was promoted to brigadier general in the army, but when Robespierre fell from his seat of power in 1797 Napoleon was briefly placed under…

“The Terror” or the “Reign of Terror”, as it is sometimes known, was an event that started on the 6th of September 1793 and lasted until the 28th July, 1794. It can be considered to be the first example of modern industrialised killing through the wide spread use of the guillotine…

Considered to be the father of the terror, Robespierre found Olympe De Gouge’s attempt to free women as an act of defiance. As such, Robespierre ordered her execution. Robespierre’s reason for eliminating Gouges is made clear in Europe and Making of Modernity, Where Robespierre emphasizes…

It became part of the phrase “terror cimbricus.” (AUTHOR) Many events which occurred in our history, were or may be named, as terrorism. One of that event, worldly proclamed terrorism , was the behavior of the self proclamed initiator of French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre. It's exactly in relation with French revolution's “Reign of Terror” instaured by Robespierre, that a lot of people have a habit of considering this word to have…