The War Of The Revolution

After the death of Louis XIV in 1793, The Reign of Terror began with the rise of Third Estate. The French society was losing control under the rising of Third Estate, they assert their rights in Paris. And the Terror of Regin is designed to prevent the counter-revolution progress; however, most people round up is not nobility, but ordinary people in capitalize. At the time, French people are living in the terror, and the Committees around the nations are encouraged to arrest any suspicious person. Robespierre, the head of the Committee of Public Safety and the executive committee of the National Convention, is the most powerful man in France. He mentioned that terror would lead to the Republic of Virtue in a speech to the National Convention,

The French Revolution is arguably the bloodiest period in French history, with men such as Maximilien Robespierre leading the country into a situation of state sponsored terror. Originally being quite a liberal thinker inspired by the works of Rousseau, Robespierre quickly gained a reputation for being a radical throughout the course of the Revolution, especially during the Terror. Early on terror was justified as a means to root out foreign and domestic enemies of the Revolution, however; once the foreign threat had been taken care of it became increasingly difficult for Robespierre to rationalize his use of terror to bring about a supposed Republic of Virtue. In his speech, the “Justification of the use of Terror” which he presented to

With all of the chaos and commotion going on with the Revolution, a sense of victory without the people was impossible. Robespierre once said, "The domestic danger comes from the bourgeois; to defeat the bourgeois we must rally the people." This concept helped to create a defense policy that rested on the Sansculottes and the middle bourgeoisie, this of which Robespierre became that symbol (Soboul 56). The Jacobins and Sansculottes forced this revolutionary of national defense upon the French leadership and upper class. This is where Robespierre 's villainous side begins to emerge. Upon implementation of this strategy, overthrow and mass executions began to appear.

As more peoples blood is split to gain the rights not extended to them, the Terror grows becoming more and more gruesome. The French revolution began in late 1789 to obtain the rights that every citizen in born with. The motto of the French was liberty, equality, or death and the price to be paid for the civil liberties was blood. The revolutionary leader Robespierre and journalist Marat explained the more blood the better so that was what raged the people and started the Reign of Terror. Were the values expressed by the French Revolution necessary though? Even though, the French Revolution saw the Terror as a sign to create peace and restore a new France it was not justified because the extremities of the internal and external threats

In the early 1790’s during The French Revolution a series of laws and policies were put into decree. They were put into command overtime because the burden of governing the country of France was becoming too high risk. Thus, the sans-culottes, with The Committee of Public Safety, ushered the Convention into “The Terror,” all while trying to fulfill the principles of liberty, fraternity, and equality. These laws and policies of the radical republic attempted to fulfill the revolutionary principles through things such as: more stringent economic measures, cracking down on manipulation of the marketplace, and the elimination of women’s clubs. These policies, among others, will be discussed in further detail throughout the paper. It was believed by revolutionary thinkers that a period of state sanctioned terror was necessary because without it there would have been fear of counter-revolutions getting in the way of

The events that led up to the American Revolution war were not big events but a series of small events when compounded together each created the catalyst to launch the colonists into revolt. The first of the events to create the spiral effect was the seven year war or the French and Indian War. That war was fought by British soldiers on several different continents. The biggest location was fought in the British colonies of North America. The British government wanted to expand their territory. They wanted to continue to grow the colonies from the original thirteen by conquering more land further west. The British government felt as if they were fighting this war against the Indians and the French to expand the land specifically for the

No conflict in American history is as well-known then the American Revolutionary war. War between the colonies and Great Britain began in April of 1775 and, in a years’ time, the conflict will grow into one of the most arduous wars ever fought. After eight years of a hard-fought war, the colonists eventually won their independence over the British. Rooted in the conflict are countless causes and events that ultimately shaped the country into how it is today. The American Revolution also influenced Contemporary American society and even on Pluralism.

The Terror cannot be isolated as a great event of the French Revolution without first examining the events that lead to it. The flight of King Louis XVI and his family, the eventual execution of the king and Marie Antoinette, the purge of the Girodins as a political group, and the assassination of radical journalist, Jean-Paul Marat, are a few of the significant events that lead to terror being called the order of the day. Although there are many other significant events throughout the French Revolution, the aforementioned occurrences are key in what led to the

France was experience a great amount of change in the summer of 1793, when the Jacobins succeeded the moderates in the National Convention. With the radical Jacobins in power, the country was in tumult, and a Reign of Terror ensued due to a law of suspects that legalized local revolutionary committees. Because of this, thousands of people were killed by guillotine or other methods. Throughout the summer of 1793, the radical Jacobins’ control of the Committee of Public Safety instituted the Terror which was advantageous in it’s intended purpose, yet it was disadvantageous because of the enemies it created.

Although professing to be a supporter of equality, rights, and liberal ideas on the surface, Robespierre reveals little of himself through his words. The era in which he held power was called The Terror for good reason. Behind his false words, Robespierre sent his political opponents to the guillotine and established one of the most oppressive regimes history had ever seen. A person studying Robespierre's words would find a man of liberal ideals, but a person who looked at his choices and actions would rightfully discover the power-mongering behind those words. Robespierre's reign during the French Revolution demonstrates how words can be deceiving and that one's choices always reveal more about them than words do because they reveal the true convictions and character of someone while words can be said with the utmost

In this essay I shall try to find whether the Terror was inherent from the French revolutions outset or was it the product of exceptional circumstances. The French revolution is the dividing line between the Ancien Regime and the modern world. After France the hierarchy that societies of the time had been founded on began to change and they began to sweep away the intricate political structures of absolute monarchy, but however to achieve this was the Terror absolutely necessary? And was it planned/ or was it just the extraordinary circumstances, which the French had lead themselves into once they had deposed of Louis the

The period of the Reign of Terror, September 1793- July 1794, resulted in significant political and social changes in France. The National Convention and Committee of Public Safety declared the law of suspects, ‘terror’ measures as acceptable and a necessary means for the government. The purpose was to eradicate France of enemies of the revolution and to protect the country from foreign invaders. Over the course of nine months, seventeen thousand people were guillotined. This set the course for change and continuity with the struggle for control between the interactions of groups in France. The results that the Reign of Terror had on Europe

With common war spreading from the Vendée and unfriendly armed forces encompassing France on all sides, the Revolutionary government chose to make "Fear" the request of the day and to take cruel measures against those associated with being foes of the Revolution (nobles, clerics, hoarders). In Paris a flood of executions took after. In the territories, delegates on mission and reconnaissance panels initiated neighborhood dread. The Terror had a monetary side encapsulated in the Maximum, a value control measure requested by the lower classes of Paris, and a religious side that was epitomized in the project of de-Christianization sought after by the supporters of Jacques Hébert.Amid the Terror, the Committee of Public Safety (of which Maximilien de Robespierre was the most unmistakable part) practiced virtual authoritarian control over the French

As a result of the Great Fear and the actions of the National Assembly took during the peak of the French Revolution, a new organization grew to power. In 1793 the Committee of Public Safety, led by Maximilien Robespierre, became the new form of French government. With the support of radical revolutionists, Robespierre was able to abolish the preexisting government, seize the church, and inspire free male suffrage. Through the use of terror, Robespierre was successfully able to rally many men and control the French nation for a few years. While his tactics may appear to be harsh, according to radical revolutionists and Robespierre himself, the ends justified the means.

France in 1793, was in a chaotic state. The masses of people that went against the aristocrats had enough of the old policies. The civilians expressed their laws and policies during the early days of ‘Republicanism’. Thus, the Third Estate embodied the enlightened principles of “equality, liberty, and fraternity”. The Third Estate formed a National Convention and prevailed with radical ideologies. The Third Estate wanted these laws so desperately that they relied on the corrupt “Committee of Public Safety” to generate terror upon the opposing forces in France, in order to establish the new laws and policies.