| Term | Definition |
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| The Thermidorian Reactions | Thermidor, a famous incident in the French Revolution, named after the summer month of the French Republic calendar (from July 20 to August 18) Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety were forcibly removed from power |
| William Doyle's View | this event marked not only the rejections of one man but the rejection of a form of government. |
| The Dismantaling of the terror | the revolutionary tribunal was abolished and only 63 people were executed. July 31 may 1795 the law of Prairial was repealed and the Jacobin club was closed. In August 16 commities of the convention were set up to take over the work of the commites of general security and public safety. the Paris commune was also abolised. The thermidorians also at this poin declared the renouncing of the constitutional church. the government decided they would no long pay clerical saleries, seperating the church from the sate. |
| The insurrections of April-May 1795 | The journnees marked that last attempt by the sans-culottes to impose thei ideas on the rulers to gain power. it was also the last attempt by the Jacobins to re-assert their political power over the paris sections. |
| The Journee of 12 Germinal year III (1 April 1795) | it was similar to the march to versailles the issue of lack of bread and political unrest. |
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