History 1401E Lecture : 10. Terror.doc
22 Mar 2012
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Getting nobility to pay for all the changes (after they over throw them: fight for bigger borders, they are at war with most of europe things then go badly. The constitution is shelved after it is made and never really goes into affect demand punishment for people who hoard grain or inflate prices and things like that. Law of the maximum (may 1793) fair prices for bread. People become worried that the mob is driving the revolution. They want the assembly to move back to vers to reduce the power of the san-coullets. The radicals get their way on june 2 1793 the girodins are arrested. There are a lot of counter revolutions the worst of which is the vendee rebellion. Causes conscription peasants had failed to benefit from the sale of church lands resented the civil constitution of the clergy (conservative area) The republican general sent 12 attachments across the vendee to destroy it.
