The Reign of Terror
Robespierre's rule of "virtue and terror" and the subsequent fall of the Jacobins.
Key Questions
- 1How did Robespierre justify the use of terror?
- 2Why did the Directory fail to provide stable government?
- 3What was the impact of the guillotine on French society?
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