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Revolt in Grenoble: the mob demands the reinstatement of the local parlement. Uprising also in Brittany. June 7, 1788

Revolutionary Armies decreed; committees of surveillance are created in each commune. They are charged with investigating those suspected of being enemies or traitors to the nation. March 21, 1793

Revolutionary municipalities and citizens’ guards are formed throughout the provinces. Process continues through August. July 15, 1789

Revolutionary Tribunal created. March 10, 1793

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

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

Rome annexed to the French Empire. Napoleon’s heir shall bear the title King of Rome. February 17, 1810

Royal leader Charette executed. March 29, 1796

Royal Session in the Parlement of Paris. November 19, 1787