Skip to main content

Browse Items (1079 total)

Filter by

Apply filters Clear filters

Sort by:

The so–called White Terror had been developing throughout April, since the first decree on April 10 calling for the disarming of all "terrorists," or supporters of Robespierre. In Lyons, many Jacobin prisoners are massacred. Many murders of former terrorists by royalists continue through June. April 24, 1795

It is decided that the Constitution of 1793, the most liberal of all the revolutionary constitutions, will be set aside. A committee is charged with drafting a new constitution. The chief prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal is tried. Conviction and execution follows. March 21, 1795

The American and British governments sign a treaty in London agreeing to blockade French shores, despite a treaty of Franco–American alliance signed in 1778. November 19, 1794

Gracchus Babeuf publishes the first issue of his newspaper, Le tribun du peuple, devoted to explaining the principles of an ideal agrarian communist society. October 5, 1794

The Abbé Grégoire submits his report on the necessity of eliminating regional dialects and patois in order to establish French as the national language. June 4, 1794

The arrest of Danton and the Dantonists ordered by the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. March 29, 1794

Robespierre reports on the principles of political morality that should be respected by the Convention, in which he declares that the revolutionary government is based on both virtue and terror ". . . virtue without which terror is evil, terror without which virtue is powerless" February 5, 1794

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

Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2