THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK

-REIGN OF TERROR

-JACOBINS CLUB
 The region of
terror
• Despite military successes, the Convention
continued to face problems domestically

• Danton and his Jacobin political party

came to dominate French politics
 Committee of Public Safety

The Committee of Public Safety formed the provisional government in France, led mainly
by Maximilien Robespierre, during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794) a phase of the French
Revolution
• Committee of Public Safety
– Headed by Danton (and later Robespierre)
– Those accused of treason were tried by the
Committee’s Revolutionary Tribunal
– Approximately 15,000 people died on the guillotine
• Guillotine became known as the “National Razor”
• Including innovative thinkers like Olympede Gouges and
Madame Jeanne Roland
 JACOBINS CLUB

The Jacobin Club was formed by Maximilian Robespierre. One of the influential
political clubs formed by Maximilian Robespierre during the French revolution was the
Jacobins club. They were considered to be the radical revolutionaries who planned the
rise of the French revolution and the downfall of the King. Jacobin is sometimes used
in the UK as a pejorative for radical, left-wing revolutionary politics.