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 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 Reign of Terror ( 5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794: the latter is date 10 Thermidor, year II of the French Revolutionary Calendar ), also known simply as The Terror (), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of " enemies of the revolution.

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.

He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791 and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.

This ultimately breaks Urich's writers block, prompting him to write his return article: " Dark Reign: Norman Osborn Takes Control ".

David went on to play a part in Reign in Hell, assisting Zatanna and Blue Devil, and ultimately sacrificing himself to Lobo's mercy to allow many heroes and anti-heroes out of Hell ; this event left Zatanna and Blue Devil traumatized, as they were the ones who went to Sargon for help in the first place.

His natural father was executed during the revolutionary Reign of Terror.

Politically, the battle invalidated the argument that continuation of the revolutionary Reign of Terror was necessary because of the military threat to France's very existence.

* Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ( 1767 – 1794 ), French revolutionary organizer of the Reign of Terror

On his return, Billaud-Varenne was included to the Reign of Terror's Committee of Public Safety, which had decreed the mass arrest of all suspects and the establishment of a revolutionary army, caused the extraordinary criminal tribunal to be named officially " Revolutionary Tribunal " ( on 29 October 1793 ), demanded the execution of Marie Antoinette, and then attacked Jacques René Hébert and Danton.

* September Massacres – the September 1792 massacres of prisoners perceived to be counter – revolutionary, a disorderly precursor of the Reign of Terror.

Arnault left France during the Reign of Terror, but on his return, he was arrested by the revolutionary authorities.

The TARDIS crew also observed many historical events such as the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France, meeting Marco Polo in China and The Aztecs in Mexico.

The Pol Pot takeover of Phnom Penh was rapidly followed by a series of drastic revolutionary agrarian socialism policies resulting in the Cambodian Genocide, whose death toll vastly exceeded that of the French Reign of Terror.

Therefore Furet suggests that ideology played the crucial role in the rise of the Reign of Terror because " man's regeneration " became a central theme for the Committee of Public Safety as they were trying to instil ideals of free will and enlightened government in the public.

During the Reign of Terror, the Jacobin government and other factions of the French Revolution used the apparatus of the state to execute and intimidate political opponents, and the Oxford English Dictionary includes as one definition of terrorism " Government by intimidation carried out by the party in power in France between 1789-1794 ".

" Terrorism " comes from the French word terrorisme, and originally referred specifically to state terrorism as practiced by the French government during the Reign of terror.

With the French government falling into the Reign of Terror, he decided to leave France to save his life.

The Committee of Public Safety (), created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror ( 1793 – 1794 ), a stage of the French Revolution.

The series of exceptional measures by which that confusion of powers was created constitutes the " Revolutionary government " in the strict sense of the word, a government which was principally in vigour during the Reign of Terror.

This constitutional convention, after a long period of emergency rule, was striving to establish a more stable and permanent government in the uncertain period after the Reign of Terror.

** The Committee of Public Safety ( Comité de salut public ) – During the Reign of Terror, this committee was effectively the government of France.

More than 60 opponents of the tribal government died violent deaths in the three years following the Wounded Knee Incident, a time many residents called the " Reign of Terror ".

Although the Reign of Terror was imposed by the French government, in modern times " terrorism " usually refers to the killing of people by non-government political activists for political reasons, often as a public statement.

When they venture inside they find the farmhouse is being used as a staging post in an escape chain for counter-revolutionaries and contains clothes – some of which are put to good use by the travellers-and fake papers, some of which bear the signature of Robespierre, the chief orchestrator of government during the Reign of Terror.

At the outbreak of the Revolution he held office under the new government and was head of the military commission in Tours during the Reign of Terror.