Reign of Terror

Fouchet

France's Chief of Secret Police, he turned on Robespierre just quick enough to be on the winning side.

Anti-clericalism

a movement that opposes the institutional power of religion, and the involvement of the church in all aspects of public and political life

Committee of Public Safety

A committee established during the French revolution to identify enemies of the republic. It accomplished this by having anyone suspected crimes against the state arrested and executed.

Girondins

A moderate republican faction active in the French Revolution from 1791 to 1793. They were turned on and executed by the Reign of Terror.

Thermidorian Reaction

A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.

Marie Antoinette

Executed to kick off the Reign of Terror

Robespierre

Leader of the Committee of Public Safety; chief architect of the Reign of Terror. Shot int he mouth (possibly self-inflicted) and executed with the Guillotine.

Barras

Leader of the opposition against Robespierre, took over France shortly after Robespierre's death.

Reign of Terror (1793-1794)

Ten-month period of brutal repression when some 40,000 individuals were executed as enemies of the French Revolution.

Vendees

The area in France where peasants revolted against the Revolution, requiring brutal suppression.

Infernal Columns

The name for the French Republic forces that depopulated the Vendees to put down the revolt.

National Bath

Where counter-revolutionaries were drowned.

Saint-Just

Younger member of Committee of Public Safety who said, " whatever is outside the French revolution is an enemy." Nicknamed "The Angel of Death," Executed with Robespierre