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Reign of Terror, period of the French Revolution from September 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794, during which the Revolutionary government decided to take harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution (nobles, priests, and hoarders). In Paris a wave of executions followed.
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- Introduction
- Objectives
- I. The Pre-Revolution Period
- II. The Revolution Begins
- III. The Revolution Radicalizes
- IV. The Rise of Napoleon
- Additional Resources
How a revolution that began with the lofty purposes of the Declaration of Rights and Man and Citizen, a statement of universal individual rights, so rapidly devolved into a Reign of Terror is one of the most vexing questions about the French Revolution. Teachers who have but two or three days (a best-case scenario) to lecture on the French Revoluti...
To explain the collapse of absolutism in France and the consequences of the political vacuum created by its downfall for the course of the Revolution.To be able to describe and contrast the two competing ideologies by which French revolutionaries reconstituted France as a nation, rather than a kingdom, and individuals as citizens instead of subj...To comprehend and analyze interpretations of the causes of the Reign of Terror as either the creation of specific political circumstances or as the logical consequence of the ideologies of the earl...To be able to interpret products of revolutionary political culture, such as written and visual political propaganda, as tools in understanding political ideology.While it will be important to explain the various aspects of the pre-Revolution period, such as the financial crisis of the monarchy and the division of French society into distinct orders of clergy, nobility, and commoners, this lesson plan relies heavily on an understanding of Enlightenment philosophy. The eighteenth-century philosophical movemen...
A. The Meeting of the Estates-General
Prior to the meeting of the Estates-General, the issue of voting procedures became the dominant political theme, overshadowing specific grievances and reform proposals drawn up by each estate, known as Cahiers de doleances. Tradition mandated that each estate meet separately and vote as an estate, that is, one vote for the clergy, one for the nobility, and one for the commoners. The Third Estate protested that because they represented the vast majority of the French population, voting should...
B. Popular Reaction and Creating a Constitutional Response
The "people" of France became a force in the Revolution through the taking of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789, and the anti-aristocratic "Great Fear" of the peasantry during the entire summer. These are both important events in the course of the Revolution; however, for the purpose of this lesson plan, they form the backdrop against which the National Assembly was forced to create a new constitution for France. A response to the Great Fear was the abolition of feudalism on August 5, 17...
The radical phase of the French Revolution, or the Reign of Terror, is currently analyzed as either a reaction to specific events, such as foreign wars and internal counterrevolution, or as the logical consequence of the ideologies of 1789. Historians who view the guiding political ideology of the early Revolution as one dedicated to protecting the...
In many ways, the downfall of Robespierre and the collapse of the Terror government set the stage for the Napoleonic dictatorship, just as 1789 perhaps set the stage for the Terror. Over the course of the Directory, the government hoped to avoid the excesses of the radical revolution by maintaining a "middle ground" between Jacobinism and the resur...
Books
Baker, Keith Michael. Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. This is one of the best studies of the impact of Rousseau's political philosophy on the French Revolution. de Tocqueville, Alexis. The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955. This nineteenth-century classic originated the interpretation that the Terror originated in 1...
Nov 1, 2022 · The Reign of Terror, or simply the Terror (la Terreur), was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects' between September 1793 and July 1794.
- The Reign of Terror was a period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution, in which citizens suspected of 'counter-revolutionary'...
- The Reign of Terror was caused by a constant paranoia that enemies were working from within France to destroy the French Revolution and take away t...
- The Reign of Terror was presided over by Maximilien Robespierre and his colleagues on the Committee of Public Safety, who used the Terror to consol...
- The Reign of Terror ended with the arrests and executions of Maximilien Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794. This led into the period of...
AP European History. Definition. The Reign of Terror was a period during the French Revolution from September 1793 to July 1794, marked by extreme political repression and mass executions of perceived enemies of the revolution.
The Reign of Terror was the most radical and violent phase of the French Revolution, spanning approximately a year from mid-1793 to mid-1794. Born chiefly from a paranoid fear of counter-revolution, the radicals who implemented the Terror did so to protect the progress of the revolution.
Definition. The Reign of Terror was a period during the French Revolution from September 1793 to July 1794, characterized by extreme political repression and mass executions of perceived enemies of the revolution.
Reign of Terror, period of the French Revolution from September 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794, during which the Revolutionary government decided to take harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution (nobles, priests, and hoarders).
