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Committee of Public Safety
Definition by Harrison W. Mark

Committee of Public Safety

In the French Revolution (1789-1799), the Committee of Public Safety (French: Comité De Salut Public) was a political body created to oversee the defense of the French Republic from foreign and domestic enemies. To achieve this goal, the...
Committee of Public Safety Emblem, 1794
Image by Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne

Committee of Public Safety Emblem, 1794

Committee of Public Safety emblem, 1794. Designed by Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois.
Georges Danton
Definition by Harrison W. Mark

Georges Danton

Georges Jacques Danton (1759-1794) was a French lawyer who became a prominent leader of the French Revolution (1789-1799). Danton played a major role in the overthrow of the French monarchy and the subsequent establishment of the First French...
Fall of Maximilien Robespierre
Article by Harrison W. Mark

Fall of Maximilien Robespierre

The fall of Maximilien Robespierre, or the Coup of 9 Thermidor, was a series of events that resulted in the arrests and executions of Robespierre and his allies on 27-28 July 1794. It signaled the end of the Reign of Terror, the end of Jacobin...
Power Struggles in the Reign of Terror
Article by Harrison W. Mark

Power Struggles in the Reign of Terror

The autumn of 1793 saw the Jacobins consolidate their authority in France as the Reign of Terror intensified and the Jacobins' defeated rivals were executed by guillotine. Yet the dominant Jacobins disagreed over the direction the French...
Robespierre & the Death Penalty
Article by Harrison W. Mark

Robespierre & the Death Penalty

"I come to ask, not the gods, but legislators…to erase from the code of the French the blood laws that command judicial murders" (Robespierre, 6). These impassioned words, spoken by Maximilien Robespierre before France's National Constituent...
Lazare Carnot
Image by Louis-Léopold Boilly

Lazare Carnot

Lazare Carnot, member of the Committee of Public Safety and nicknamed "Organizer of Victory", portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly.
Bertrand Barère
Image by Jean-Louis Laneuville

Bertrand Barère

Bertrand Barère, French revolutionary leader most famous for his position on the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror, oil on canvas portrait by Jean-Louis Laneuville, c. 1793-94. Kunsthalle, Bremen.
Reign of Terror
Definition by Harrison W. Mark

Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror, or simply the Terror (la Terreur), was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects'...
Drownings at Nantes
Definition by Harrison W. Mark

Drownings at Nantes

The Drownings at Nantes were a series of mass killings that took place in Nantes, France from November 1793 to February 1794 during the Reign of Terror. Overseen by Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission from Paris, thousands...
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