The Republic and the Reign of Terror, 1792-1794History 104 / February 13, 2013

Forces for radical change: the Jacobins

Forces for radical change: the sans-culottes

Forces for radical change: the press

Jean Paul Marat (1743-1793)Editor, The Friend of the People

The “flight to Varennes”(June 1791)

Louis tries to embrace symbols of revolution

Europe in 1790

Louis captured by the mob in Paris (Aug. 10, 1792)

Massacres in Paris,Sept. 2-6, 1792

“Victory” at Valmy (Sept. 20, 1792)

Louis says farewell to his family

Louis at the guillotine (Jan. 21, 1793)

Prime Minister William Pitt urges theHouse of Commons to declare war (Feb. 1793)

France besieged, 1793

red areasoccupied by France as of early 1793

white boxesinvading armies

green areasuprisings against the Republic

Conquests in Germany: spreading the revolution by force

The revolutionary calendar

The Festival of the Supreme Being (June 8, 1794)

Maximilien Robespierre(1758-1794)

“the incorruptible”

Revolutionary paranoia: the Committee of Public Safety

Marat assassinatedby Charlotte Corday

(July 13, 1793)

- painting by Jacques-Louis

David

The reign of terror: the guillotine in constant use

Robespierre arrested (July 27, 1794)

Robespierre guillotined