the radicalization and counterrevolution of the french revolution
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The Radicalization and Counterrevolution of the
French Revolution 1792-1795
The Execution of Louis XVI
Tried for High Treason
Colluded with invaders
Vote on execution 380-310Executed January
21st, 1793
What led to Radicalization?
War! CounterRevolution
Food Prices
Parisian unrest
The Committee on Public Safety
Held Real Power in Convention era
Perpetual Crisis Designed to protect
revolutionary France from both Internal and External Threats
Initially led by Danton, utilized the Revolutionary Tribunal
Counter Revolution
Royalists & Federalists
Centered on major industrial cities.
Federalists loyal to revolution, Royalists to King and God
Both Suppressed with extreme
violence
100,000Killed
Chain shot
Important Accomplishments – Events
Levee en Masse
Suppression of Revolts
Price Controls Increased Minimum Wage
LAW OFSUSPECTS
The Terror
9/93-7/9416,000-40,000
killed Enrages Featured political
purges Political DictatorshipGovernment Power
Expanded
The Great Terror
Targeted former Revolutionaries
‘94 Targeted enrageJacques Herbert
(sans-culotte leader)Danton
Law of 22 prarial
1300 victims in Paris (6 weeks)
Like Saturn the Revolution has begun to eat its own
The Revolution has become frozen
Thermidorian Reaction
8th of ThermidorRobespierre SpeechAccused of aspiring
to dictatorship No allies left
Legacy
Greater Centralization
Expanded Bureaucracy Liberal Fears
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