French Revolution Dbq

Robespierre thought that anybody who did not make contributions to the revolution is the enemy of the revolution. The law toward suspect established by Robespierre stated that anyone that performed “counterrevolutionary” action, which means did not support the Jacobin Club or resist laws established by the National Convention, should be considered enemy of the revolution and should be executed. The intentions of these policies are to reduce influences of conterrevolutinists in and out of the country. Before Louis XVI was executed, he united with armies with Austria and Prussia which are both ruled in monarchy to fight against people involved in riots in France. This union was considered treason of Louis XVI against his own people and later

Seventy percent of the death sentences were handed down in just five departments. In some areas the Terror was particularly harsh. In Nantes, near the center of the Vendée rebellion and also a city sympathetic to the federalist revolt, Jean-Baptiste Carrier and local militants ordered the drowning of three thousand suspected counterrevolutionaries. In Lyon, a city with a reputation for royalist sympathies and also a federalist center, nearly two thousand were executed, some by guillotine and others shot down by cannon. Toulon, Marseille, and Bordeaux—cities that resisted the National Convention in the summer of 1793—all suffered three hundred or more executions during the Terror.” The policy was necessary in 1793 due to other interference done by counterrevolutionary groups from foreign countries intended to obstruct the course of revolution. However, after these threats were solved and when the terror needed to be alleviated, Robespierre continued his

The article stated “He could be accused, justly, of political ambition, but he himself did not see this as inconsistent with his dedication to the Revolution. He had an unshakable belief that his own aims coincided with what was best for the Revolution. He was a man of painful sincerity. He was not a hypocrite. He really did believe that the Terror could sustain the republic of virtue.” He published a journal in 1793 and argued the revolution must return to its original purpose, which in his mind was to build a democracy and destroy anything that held back the process of it, according to treason of Louis XVI, the terror was necessary to prevent further conflict with other powers in disadvantage of the Jacobin Club. Her argument toward Robespierre was similar with mine in terms of his intentions and his position in the series of events before the revolution that led to his style of ruling and justification of