The Reign of Terror

Yasmin Nassereddeen & Marie Aviles

Junior Division
Website
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“French Revolution Documents.” French Revolution, Alpha History, 2015,

alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/french-revolution-documents/
These documents show notes and a few laws that were passed during the revolution.
This information will be used to see directly inside the minds of those who experienced
the French Revolution.

France, “The Law of Suspects.” The Law of Suspects, The Committee of Public Safety,
1793.
This law listed the types of people considered suspects in France.
This information was used in the conflict, as well as the timeline, as an example of events
in the Reign of Terror.

France, Couthon Georges. “The Law of Prarial.” The Law of 22 Prarial, The Committee of
Public Safety, 1794.
This law made it easier for someone to be considered a suspect, and harder for a suspect
to be proven innocent.
This information was used in the conflict and timeline, to show one of the leading reasons
of increasing deaths in France.

Images of the French Revolution. frda.stanford.edu/en/images.

This page has an archive of paintings made during the French Revolution.
The paintings were used as images in the website to help comprehend what was going on
through the eyes of a citizen.

Robespierre, Maximilien. “Justification of the Use of Terror.” Justification of the Use of

Terror, 1794.
In this document, Robespierre declares why it is reasonable that he is creating strict and
anarchistic laws for his country.
This can be used to help infer why Robespierre thought the Reign of Terror was
justifiable to gain a better understanding of why it started.

Pine, Philippe . “Execution of the King.” France, 21 Jan. 1793, France.

This letter was made during the execution of King Louis XIV. The letter describes the
events of the execution from a citizen’s point of view.
This letter is important because it portrays a very depictive image of how citizens felt
during their King’s execution.
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Reign of Terror, The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica,

https://www.britannica.com/event/reign-of-terror
Britannica tells us that the Reign of Terror dated from September 5th, 1793 to July 27th,
1794 as well as other main points of the terror.
This website gave us background information and a summary of the Reign of Terror.

“French Revolution for Kids.” Ducksters Educational Site 2017,

www.ducksters.com/history/french_revolution/.
This website gave us basic knowledge on the French Revolution, including the political
clubs that were in it, and a summary of the Reign of Terror.
This information was used to describe what the political groups were, and who were in
them.
History.com Staff. “French Revolution.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009,
www.history.com/topics/french-revolution.
The Reign of Terror began because of governmental issues and alternations progressing
into the colonist’s disagreements.
We need the background information on how the government was functioning to better
understand why the Reign of Terror began.

Linton, Marisa. “Robespierre and the Terror.” Robespierre and the Terror | History
Today, History Today, 2017, www.historytoday.com/marisa-linton/robespierre-and-terror
This article helps us to understand Robespierre’s background and reasoning for
beginning the Committee of Public Safety.
This teaches us what type of goals Robespierre had and the type of government he strived
to create for France.

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution; Ruth Scurr – Henry Holt – 2014
This book writes about the effects that Maximillian Robespierre had on France’s
revolution with The Reign of Terror.
We can build upon why Robespierre wanted the political changes he believed in, and
where he got his ideas to make the government the way he wanted it.

“Effects of the Reign of Terror in France.” Napoleon Bonaparte,

http://thehistoryofnapoleon.blogspot.com/2013/07/effects-of-reign-of-terror-in-france.html
This article writes about how France was impacted by the Reign of Terror, going into
depths about deaths, destruction, and wars with other countries.
We used this information in our conclusion to describe how the Reign of Terror affected
the future of France, as well as its effects on other countries’ governments.
“The French Revolution (1789–1799).” SparkNotes, SparkNotes, 2017,
www.sparknotes.com/history/european/frenchrev/summary.html.
This website goes over a summary of events that occur in the entire French Revolution.
This helped us to understand the overview of the Reign of Terror and the most important
factors in it.

“Maximilien Robespierre.” The Reign of Terror - HistoryWiz French Revolution,

www.historywiz.com/terror.htm.
This article has an extensive biography about Maximilien Robespierre.
We used the information in this biography in sections about Robespierre’s death, and
impact on the Reign of Terror.

Black, Simon. “France's Answer to Terrorism: The Law of Suspects.” Sovereign Man, 16
Nov. 2015, www.sovereignman.com/trends/frances-answer-to-terrorism-the-law-of-
suspects-18244/.
This article writes about the Law of Suspects, going into detail about why it was created
and passed.
We used this information to gain an expansive knowledge on the Law of Suspects, and
used it in our conflict and timeline.

Wilde, Robert. “French Revolution Timeline: 1793 - 4 (The Terror).” ThoughtCo,

www.thoughtco.com/french-revolution-timeline-the-terror-1221890.
This timeline goes over the events in the Reign of Terror from January 1793, to
December, 1794
This contributed lots of main points and information that we used in our timeline.

“List of 10 Major Events of the French Revolution.” History Lists,

historylists.org/events/list-of-10-major-events-of-the-french-revolution.html.
This lists important background knowledge on the French Revolution, and has some
information listed on about the Reign of Terror as well.
We used this to help confirm information such as the death toll during the Reign of
Terror.

“The Three Estates.” The French Revolution, mrscordovafrenchrevolution.weebly.com/the-

three-estates.html.
This article gives a short summary on all you need to know about the levels of the 3
estates.
This information was used in the background so the reader could gain the important
background knowledge on what the 3 estates were.