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Committee of General Security

France · Revolution / Revolution of France. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

9Records
1793–1795Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1793

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre27 July 1793

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

The Committee is already entering a more powerful and active phase, which would see it become a de facto dictatorship alongside its similarly powerful partner, the Committee of General Security

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre27 July 1793

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

The Committee is already entering a more powerful and active phase, which would see it become a de facto dictatorship alongside its similarly powerful partner, the Committee of General Security.

Camille Desmoulins15 December 1793

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

Desmoulins quickly turned his pen against the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security, comparing their reign to that of the Roman tyrants chronicled by Tacitus and expounding the "indulgent" views of the Dantonist faction

Camille Desmoulins15 December 1793

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

Desmoulins quickly turned his pen against the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security, comparing their reign to that of the Roman tyrants chronicled by Tacitus and expounding the "indulgent" views of the Dantonist faction.

1794

Camille DesmoulinsMarch 1794

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

The Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security ensure that Desmoulins and Danton are arrested

Camille DesmoulinsMarch 1794

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

The Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security ensure that Desmoulins and Danton are arrested.

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre10 June 1794

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

The Law of 22 Prairial, proposed by the Committee of Public Safety and enacted on June 10, 1794, went further in establishing the iron control of the Revolutionary Tribunal and, above it, the Committee's of Public Safety and General Security

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre10 June 1794

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

The Law of 22 Prairial, proposed by the Committee of Public Safety and enacted on June 10, 1794, went further in establishing the iron control of the Revolutionary Tribunal and, above it, the Committee's of Public Safety and General Security.

1795

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre1795

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

The Committee's ceased to exist under the Constitution of 1795, which marked the beginning of the Directory

Names involved

Camille DesmoulinsMaximilien Francois Marie Robespierre

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