MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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the Moderate Lawyers
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The Committee of Public Safety
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The Bourgeoisie
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The Sans-Culottes
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Committee of Public Safety was set up on April 6, 1793, during one of the crises of the Revolution, when France was beset by foreign and civil war.
Detailed explanation-2: -Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17, 000 enemies of the Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Committee of Public Safety took actions to defend the French Republic by passing a series of laws that both helped the war effort and allowed for the arrests and executions of counter-revolutionaries within France itself.
Detailed explanation-4: -On 6 April 1793 the National Convention established the Committee of Public Safety, which gradually became the de facto war-time government of France. The Committee oversaw the Reign of Terror.
Detailed explanation-5: -Robespierre followed a policy of severe control and punishment.