Reign of Terror (nonfiction)

The Reign of Terror (6 September 1793 – 28 July 1794), also known as The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution.

The Terror was incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and The Mountain, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution".

The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris), and another 25,000 in summary executions across France.

The Guillotine (called the "National Razor") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause.

Fiction cross-reference

• National Razor

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Conscription (nonfiction)
• French Revolution (nonfiction)
• Maximilien Robespierre (nonfiction)

External links:

• Reign of Terror @ Wikipedia