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Robespierre delivers an important report on the principles of revolutionary government, which he describes as a necessary and provisional form of war against the enemies of liberty, to be distinguished from constitutional government, which conserves and protects liberty once firmly and peacefully established. December 25, 1793

Camille Desmoulins publishes the first issue of Le Vieux Cordelier. He favors the ideas of Danton, urging peace negotiations with foreign powers and an end to the official Terror. December 5, 1793

Although it continues sporadically, the important revolt in the Vendée is repressed. December 12, 1793

All women are required by the Convention to wear the tricolored ribbon, insignia of the Republic. September 21, 1793

Robespierre, at the Jacobin Club, proposes a new version of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. April 21, 1793

A revolt attempted by the Enragés in Paris fails. March 9, 1793

Royalist and Catholic revolt begins in the Vendée and elsewhere in western France. March 1793

Attacks on shops and food riots occur during a time of great scarcity. Continue through March. February 1793

Members in the English House of Commons urge taking up of arms against France to protect Louis XVI from the Convention. December 21, 1792

Jacques Roux, a radical leader, makes one of several speeches in radical "sections" of Paris. Roux will become the leader of the Enragés, who demanded that the "aristocracy of the rich" as unfavorably as the nobility who had been stripped of their privileges in 1789. Jacques Roux and the Enragés would be attacked by the Girondists and the Jacobins, who both defended a central principle of the French Revolution, the right of property. December 1, 1792

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