1. Aim: Why did the French Revolution become a “Reign of Terror”?
Do Now: How would you like your grades to be determined?

3. Liberty!!! Equality!!! Fraternity!!!

4. I. An Unstable France Small groups (factions) compete for power
Famine and fear spread

5. Women March on Versailles

6. Marie Antoinette
“Let them Eat Cake”

7. C. European monarchs are threatened--> leads to war

8. II. The Reign of Terror
Radicals take over the National Assembly--> National Convention
1. Write a new constitution
2. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette arrested and executed

9. Louis XVI’s Head (January 21, 1793)
The National Convention voted 387 to 334 to execute the monarchs.

10. Marie Antoinette on the Way to the Guillotine

11. Marie Antoinette Died in October, 1793

12. Committee for Public Safety
1. Led by Maximilien Robespierre
Revolutionary Tribunals.
300,000 arrested.
16,000 – 50,000 executed.

13. Maximillian Robespierre (1758 – 1794)

14. Let terror be the order of the day!
The Reign of Terror
Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible. -- Robespierre
Let terror be the order of the day!
The Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris alone executed 2,639 victims in 15 months.
The total number of victims nationwide was over 20,000!

15. Previous Forms of Torture
Burning at the stake
Strangulation
Broken on a wheel
Hanging
Dismemberment
Torn apart by horses
Beheaded by an axe
Be sure to tip the executioner or he might hit your shoulders or back…
…on purpose!

16. The “Monster” Guillotine
The last guillotine execution in France was in the 1977!