1794 newspaper FRENCH REVOLUTION Reign of Terror w LIST - EXECUTED by GUILLOTINE

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1794 newspaper FRENCH REVOLUTION Reign of Terror w LIST - EXECUTED by GUILLOTINE:
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1794 newspaper FRENCH REVOLUTION - Reign of Terror with a LIST of PERSONS convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal and sentenced to be executed by theGUILLOTINE

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This newspaper contains a long and very detailed report of the REIGN OF TERROR in France during the FRENCH REVOLUTION. It also has a list of names of people condemned to be executed by guillotine in France after being convicted by a French Revolutionary Tribunal during the REIGN OF TERROR.

The period from June 1793 to July 1794 in France is known as the Reign of Terror or simply \"the Terror\". The upheaval following the overthrow of the monarchy, invasion by foreign monarchist powers and the revolt in the Vendée combined to throw the nation into chaos and the government into paranoia. Most of the democratic reforms of the revolution were suspended and the Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced thousands to the guillotine. The first political prisoner to be executed was Collenot d\'Angremont of the National Guard, followed soon after by the King\'s trusted collaborator in his ill-fated attempt to moderate the Revolution, Arnaud de Laporte, both in 1792. Former King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were executed in 1793. Maximilien Robespierre became one of the most powerful men in the government, and the figure most associated with the Terror. Nobility and commoners, intellectuals, politicians and prostitutes, all were liable to be executed on little or no grounds; suspicion of \"crimes against liberty\" was enough to earn one an appointment with \"Madame Guillotine\" or \"The National Razor\". Estimates of the death toll range between 16,000 and 40,000.

At this time, Paris executions were carried out in the Place de la Revolution (former Place Louis XV and current Place de la Concorde); the guillotine stood in the corner near the Hôtel Crillon where the statue of Brest can be found today.

For a time, executions by guillotine were a popular entertainment that attracted great crowds of spectators. Vendors sold programs listing the names of those scheduled to die. Many people came day after day and vied for the best locations from which to observe the proceedings; knitting women (tricoteuses) formed a cadre of hardcore regulars, inciting the crowd. Parents often brought their children. By the end of the Terror, the crowds had thinned drastically. Repetition had staled even this most grisly of entertainments, and audiences grew bored.

Eventually, the National Convention had enough of the Terror, partially fearing for their own lives, and turned against Maximilien Robespierre. He was arrested, and on 28 July 1794, was executed in the same fashion as those whom he had condemned. This arguably ended the Terror, as the French expressed their discontent with Robespierre\'s policy by guillotining him.

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