class IX FRENCH REVOLUTION

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
HOLIDAY HOMEWORK

• REIGN OF TERROR

• JACOBINS CLUB

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• Despite military successes, the Convention
  continued to face problems domestically

• Danton and his Jacobin political party came to
  dominate French politics

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• Committee of Public Safety
• Headed by Danton (and later Robespierre)
• Those accused of treason were tried by the
  Committees Revolutionary Tribunal
• Approximately 15,000 people died on the
  guillotine
• Guillotine became known as the National Razor
• Including innovative thinkers like Olympe de
  Gouges and Madame Jeanne Roland

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Committee of Public Safety
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End of the Reign of Terror

• Members of the Girondist political party tried to
  end the Reign of Terror initiated by the Jacobin
  political party
• This opposition to the Committee of Public Safety
  caused many Girondists to be tried and executed
  for treason
• Eventually, even Georges Danton wanted to end the
  executions
• This resulted in Danton being tried and executed
  for treason

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• Maximilien Robespierre became leader of the
  Committee of Public Safety
• He continued the executions
• Convention came to blame Robespierre for the
  Reign of Terror
• Thermidorean Reaction
• July 27, 1794 ended the Reign of Terror
• Convention sent Robespierre and other members of
  the Committee of Public Safety to the guillotine
• Robespierre was guillotined on July 28, 1794

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The Jacobins

• Founders of the Republic of Virtue

• Instigators of the Terror

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The Jacobin Club

• Founded in 1789 by the deputies from Brittany,
  the club had a high entrance fee.

• This meant its members were originally wealthy
  liberal constitutional monarchists.

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• Jacobin clubs spread over France from 1200
  members in 1789 to around 100,000 in 1793

• Robespierre led a radical faction, which argued
  for the political rights of the poor and was
  opposed to the division into active and
  passive citizens.

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• 16 July, 1791, following Varennes, the
  monarchist, constitutionalist Jacobins withdrew
  to form the Feuillant Club

Membership Card for the Jacobin Club
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BY- UDYAN OJHA IX-A Roll No. 43