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