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In this lesson, we will learn about how the French Revolution became a bloodbath. We will learn how the hope and joy of 1789 was put at risk by foreign invasion and enemies within. We will see how, in this atmosphere, the French Revolutionaries turned on each other and thousands were executed. Download all resources. Share activities with pupils.
Date: September 20, 1792 - October 26, 1795. National Convention, assembly that governed France from September 20, 1792, until October 26, 1795, during the most critical period of the French Revolution. The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy (August 10, 1792).
Ronen Steinberg is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. He is the author of the book The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France, and of several articles on trauma and transitional justice, including “Transitional Justice in the Age of the French Revolution,” The International Journal of Transitional Justice 7 ...
A REIGN OF TERROR definition: 1. a period of time when a ruler controls people in a violent and cruel way 2. a period of time…. Learn more.
Maximilien Robespierre - Revolution, Terror, France: After the fall of the Girondins, the Montagnards were left to deal with the country’s desperate position. Threatened from within by the movement for federalism and by the civil war in the Vendée in the northwest and threatened at the frontiers by the anti-French coalition, the Revolution mobilized its resources for victory.
Guillotine. A guillotine ( / ˈɡɪlətiːn, - loʊ -/ GHIH-lə-teen, -loh-) is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the ...
Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. This study favors the interpretation of individual rights and the circumstantial origins of the Reign of Terror, stressing the role of the foreign war. Furet, Francois. "The Revolution Is Over."
