| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Thermidor | Marked the end of the Reign of Terror. named after a summer month of the French Republican calendar (from July 20 to August 18), which took place on 9 Thermidor An II (July 27, 1794), when Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety were forcibly removed from power. |
| The Convention | representative assembly convened (September 1792) during the French Revolution. It abolished the monarchy, established the First Republic, and condemned (January 1793) King Louis XVI to death for treason. During the Reign of Terror (April 1793-July 1794), the convention was dominated by the 12-member Committee of Public Safety and thereafter by the Thermidorian faction. The convention was dissolved October 26, 1795, after the establishment of the Directory. |
| Insurrections of April-May 1795 | Journees marking the last attempt by sans-culottes to impose their ideas and to gain power. Also the last attempt by the jacobins to re-assert political power over the Paris sections and the Convention. |
| Paris Sections | ???????? |
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