Reign of Terror
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title:
Reign of Terror
text:
The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. While terror was never formally instituted as a legal policy by the Convention, it was more often employed as a concept. There is disagreement among historians over when exactly "the Terror" began. Some
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description:
1793–94 killings during the French Revolution caused by Maximilian Robespierre
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
date created:
2001-09-24T21:51:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T08:07:58Z
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