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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

How a Mother Survives February 21, 1794

Madame Ducroquet wrote to her son in the spring of 1794 about the continuing shortage of food. She expressed her worries upon reading that someone with the same name had been arrested; in fact, it was her son, who went to the guillotine only a few…

The Laws of Ventôse enacted; they authorize the seizure and redistribution of all property belonging to those suspected of working against the Republic. February 26, 1794

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Waves of dechristianization continue through April. March 1794

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Arrest of the Hébertists. March 13, 1794

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Police Report on a Session of the Cordeliers March 16, 1794

In the passage below, a police observer of a Cordelier Club meeting notes the ongoing concern of the participants to identify and then to denounce "conspiracies" against the republic, even when the conspitators had been very recently integral to the…