Committee of Public Safety Totally Explained

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The Committee of Public Safety (French: Comité de salut public), set up by the National Convention on April 6, 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror (1793-4) of the French Revolution. Under war conditions and with national survival seemingly at stake, the Jacobins under Robespierre centralized denunciations, trials, and executions under the supervision of this committee of twelve members. The committee was responsible for thousands of executions, most by the guillotine, in what was known as the "Reign of Terror." Frenchmen were executed under the pretext of being a supporter of monarchy or against the revolution. The Committee ceased meeting in 1795.

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Passed the Maximum Price Act
Hundreds of thousands conscripted in the Levée en masse. France had over 850,000 men in its armies
Creation of a war dictatorship.
Suppression of counter-revolution and rebellions.
Created the Law of 22 Prairial
Failures
Tens of thousands of French citizens were killed.
Many tens of thousands more were alienated from the Revolution
Grain shortages and hoarding caused by price controls.
The poor bore the burden of conscription and grain requisitions.
Hospitals, schools and charities were deprived of staff because of attacks on religious orders.
Deepening hostilities in the countryside over the dechristianisation campaign.

Prominent members

Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac - Earlier a Girondist, later a Bonapartist, drew up the 9 Thermidor report outlawing Robespierre.

Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, an Hébertist

Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès was a member only after 9 Thermidor

Lazare Carnot - physicist, the "Organizer of Victory"

Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois, an Hébertist

Georges Couthon

Georges Danton, only from April - July 1793

Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles

Robert Lindet

Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, only from March - June 1793, also mayor of Paris

Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois (also known as Prieur de la Côte-d'Or)

Pierre Louis Prieur (also known as Prieur de la Marne)

Maximilien Robespierre, a Montagnard

Jean Bon Saint-André

Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, a Montagnard

Jean Lambert Tallien was a member only after 9 ThermidorFurther Information

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