Progess of the Terror

• Maximilien Robespierre emerged as the chief on the Committee of Public Safety
• The Jacobin club was the base of his power
• He depended on support from the sans-culottes of Paris
• he was opposed to dechristianization
• The Reign of Terror manifested itself through a series of revolutionary tribunals (judgements) established by the Convention during the summer of 1793
• Marie Antoinette and other members of the royal family were executed in October 1793

Marie Antoinette's Execution

• Robespierre turned the Terror against republican political figures
• June 10: a secured law permitted the revolutionary tribunal to convict suspects without evidence
• May 1794: Robespierre established the Cult of Supreme Being (a new religion)
• Robespierre was executed July 28 by Convention

Maximilien Robespierre

• The Reign of Terror claimed 40,000 victims
• The Terror came to an end with factors such as:
• provincial uprisings being crushed and
• war against foreign enemies was going well