Law of 22 Prairial unleashes the Great Terror
1794 · Event
The Revolutionary Tribunal is stripped of defence counsel, witnesses and any verdict but acquittal or death. In the next seven weeks Paris guillotines more people than in the previous year of the Terror — until the Convention, fearing for its own necks, turns on Robespierre.
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