Was the Reign of Terror Justified?
The reign of terror was a 10 month period of the massacres of the people of France. Anyone who was suspected of going against the revolutionary government, taken over by radicals, was either imprisoned or sentenced to the guillotine. What led up to the terror was with the revolutionary government being in a crisis in 1973. The crisis was due to the French Revolution beginning four years earlier with the Storming of the Bastille. Foreign countries attacked France from all […]
