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He was branded a traitor by the Assembly under Robespierre, during the Reign of Terror, in 1794.
David, as a member of the Committee of General Security, contributed directly to the Reign of Terror.
Then plotters seized Robespierre at the National Convention and he was later guillotined, in effect ending the Reign of Terror.
Though he spent some of his money trying to clean up swamps and eradicate malaria, he was nonetheless sent to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror as an enemy of the people.
Internally, popular sentiments radicalized the Revolution significantly, culminating in the rise of Maximilien Robespierre and the Jacobins and virtual dictatorship by the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror from 1793 until 1794 during which between 16, 000 and 40, 000 people were killed.
During the Reign of Terror, extreme efforts of de-Christianization ensued, including the imprisonment and massacre of priests and destruction of churches and religious images throughout France.
This policy of price control was coeval with the Committee of Public Safety's rise to power and the Reign of Terror.
Satirical cartoon from England lampooning the excesses of the Revolution as symbolized through the guillotine: between 18, 000 and 40, 000 people were executed during the Reign of Terror
The Committee of Public Safety came under the control of Maximilien Robespierre, a lawyer, and the Jacobins unleashed the Reign of Terror ( 1793 1794 ).
The Reign of Terror ultimately weakened the revolutionary government, while temporarily ending internal opposition.
The execution of Robespierre on 28 July 1794 marked the end of the Reign of Terror.
Those who wished to restore the monarchy and the Ancien Régime by putting Louis XVIII on the throne, and those who would have renewed the Reign of Terror were insignificant in number.
Washington, warning and mistrustful of the influence of Illuminism that had been so strong in the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, demanded the French government recall Genêt, and denounced the societies.
Under Robespierre the committee initiated the Reign of Terror, during which up to 40, 000 people were executed in Paris, mainly nobles, and those convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal, often on the flimsiest of evidence.
This party eventually gained overwhelming power in the Convention and governed France during the Reign of Terror.
Starting in September 1793, a period known as the Reign of Terror ensued for approximately 12 months, the bloodiest and one of the most controversial phases of the French Revolution.
Those who wished to restore Louis XVIII and the Ancien Régime and those who would have renewed the Reign of Terror were insignificant in number.
* 1793 French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
The cult that grew up around Rousseau after his death, and particularly the radicalized versions of Rousseau's ideas that were adopted by Robespierre and Saint-Just during the Reign of Terror, caused him to become identified with the most extreme aspects of the French Revolution.
* 1794 The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
These included the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and others prior to their disillusionment with the outbreak of the Reign of Terror.
* 1794 Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
The repression accelerated in June and July 1794, a period called " la Grande Terreur " ( the Great Terror ), and ended in the coup of 9 Thermidor Year II ( 27 July 1794 ), leading to the Thermidorian Reaction, in which several protagonists of the Reign of Terror were executed, including Saint-Just and Robespierre.

Reign and 5
* September 5: Start of Reign of Terror.
Released on July 5, 1988, the album was the band's second collaboration with record producer Rick Rubin, whose production skills on Slayer's previous album Reign in Blood had helped the band's sound evolve.
In July 1795, one year after the execution of Robespierre put an end to the Reign of Terror, the Republicans of Valenciennes tortured, raped and guillotined 5 Ursuline nuns.
* Nominated for 5 awards at the 2012 MMVA's including: Video of the Year and Ur Fave Video of the Year ( lost to Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe ), Pop Video of the Year and Cinemtography Video of the Year ( lost to Marianas Trench's Haven't Had Enough ), for Invincible ft. P. Reign ) and Ur Fave Artist of the Year ( lost to Justin Beiber ).
* Hamilton, J. S. Piers Gaveston Earl of Cornwall 1307-1312: Politics and Patronage in the Reign of Edward II ( 69, 72, 95 98, 104 5 ) Detroit: 1988
# " Reign " ( featuring Ian Brown and Mani ) 5: 32
# " Let the Peace of God Reign " ( from Shout to the Lord ) 5: 12
However, the tour did continue with two shows, and would make a return to Philadelphia on November 5 ( billed as November Reign ) for what Tod Gordon has said will stand as the final Hardcore Homecoming show.
*" 5. 15 " and " Love, Reign o ' er Me "
** June 1973, The Kitchen, Battersea (" 5: 15 ") and Olympic Studios, London (" Love, Reign o ' er Me ")

Reign and September
* September Massacres the September 1792 massacres of prisoners perceived to be counter revolutionary, a disorderly precursor of the Reign of Terror.
* Fear and Uncertainty Reign in Kondopoga, by Carl Schreck, The Moscow Times, September 14, 2006.
In March 2007, he starred with Adam Sandler in Reign Over Me, and in September 2007 released a new DVD compilation of his eight live HBO specials, titled Robert Klein: The HBO Specials 1975 2005.
The Law of Suspects () was a decree passed during the Reign of Terror on 17 September 1793, following the French Revolution.
During the French Revolution, the red flag was adopted by the Jacobin Club, whose members controlled the insurrectionary Paris Commune during the assault on the Tuileries, the September Massacres, and throughout the Reign of Terror.
His books for Classics Illustrated included Romeo and Juliet ( No. 134, September 1956 ); Lord Jim ( No. 136, January 1957 ); The Little Savage ( No. 137, March 1957 ); In the Reign of Terror ( No. 139, July 1957 ); The Crisis ( No. 145, July 1958 ); The Buccaneer ( No. 148, January 1959 ); The Three Musketeers ( No. 1, revised, May 1959 ); The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( No. 18, revised, with Reed Crandall, Fall 1960 ); Oliver Twist ( No. 23, revised, with Reed Crandall, Fall 1961 ); Julius Caesar ( No. 68, revised, with Reed Crandall, 1962 ); and In Freedom's Cause ( No. 168, with Reed Crandall, 1962 ; published UK 1963 ; published US 1969 ).
Revel was best known for his books Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information and his 2002 book Anti-Americanism, one year after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
A suspect during the Reign of Terror, he was twice arrested: the first time in September 1793, liberated after the intervention of Joseph Augustin Crassous ( representative on mission to Seine-et-Oise ); the second time in June 1794 ( paradoxically, on orders from the same Crassous )-threatened with the guillotine, he was saved by a relative of his who stole his record of prosecution, thus causing a delay long enough for Lebrun to be saved by the Thermidorian Reaction.
This was left to Keith Giffen, whose Reign In Hell ( August 2008-April 2009, missing September ) eight-issue mini-series featured all-out war between Hell and Purgatory and re-defined Hell in DC comics continuity.
The Reign of Terror is the eighth serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 8 August to 12 September 1964.
* A War at Palenque During the Reign of Ah-K ' an by Matthew G. Looper and Linda Schele ( September 1991 )

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