Formation of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris, intended to prevent the kind of massacres seen in September. The Committee of Public Safety discovers evidence and presents it to the Tribunal for judgment. In Paris the first of 2750 death sentences were awarded 15 April 1793, the last on 6 May 1795, around 110 a month. However, in the same period 2250 of the accused were acquitted. In the provinces, some 35-40,000 people were executed during the winter of 1793-4.
We have have no profile for this entry. If you are a qualified scholar and you wish to write for The Literary Encyclopedia, please click here to contact us.
Editors. "Committee of Public Safety takes control of the Terror in France". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 December 2007
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=4262, accessed 27 June 2017.]