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Reign of Terror
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reign of terror
English
Etymology
Named for the violence of the period, when thousands or people were massacred or executed through the guillotine by the Committee of Public Safety under Maximilien Robespierre.
Proper noun
Reign of Terror 1
The period of the French Revolution between 1793 and 1794, marked by political violence, including massacres and public executions by guillotine of over a thousand French citizens accused of bearing reactionary sentiments or treason against the French First Republic.
Translations
period of the French Revolution
French: fr Terreur f
German: de Terrorherrschaft f
Spanish: es Terror m
en History of France