The reign of terror was the period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship instituted to rule the country in a national emergency. Initially the Committee of Public Safety was created to preserve the reforms of the French Revolution. Their aim was to eliminate all internal counterrevolutionary elements to raise …showed first 75 words of 934 total…

…showed last 75 words of 934 total…England Jones, R Ben. The French Revolution, 1969, University of London press, London, England Koeller, David. The French Revolution, 1998, North Park University press, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America Sagan, Eli. Citizens and Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for modernity and the Origins of ideological terror, 2001, Rowman and Littlefield publishers, Lanham, Maryland, United States of America Wright, D G. Revolution and Terror in France 1789 - 1795, 1990, Addison - Wesley publishing, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America