Maximin Isnard4 April 1793
Girondin leader Maximin Isnard proposes the creation of a nine-member Committee of Public Safety
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Girondin leader Maximin Isnard proposes the creation of a nine-member Committee of Public Safety
Girondin leader Maximin Isnard proposes the creation of a nine-member Committee of Public Safety.
Georges Jacques Danton helped form the committee of public safety which assumes dictatorial powers.
Helps form the committee of public safety which assumes dictatorial powers
The Committee of Public Safety is formed based upon Isnards proposal
The Committee of Public Safety is formed based upon Isnards proposal.
Georges Jacques Danton left the Committee of Public Safety.
Leaves the Committee of Public Safety
Robespierre joined the Committee of Public Safety as it expanded control over wartime policy, the Terror and the levee en masse.
The Committee is responsible for interpreting and applying the decrees of the National Convention, and thus for implementing some of the most stringent policies of the Terror & the levee en masse. 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 Robespierre is elected to the Committee
Robespierre joins the Committee of Public Safety while Jacobin influence over revolutionary government increases
Robespierre joins the Committee of Public Safety while Jacobin influence over revolutionary government increases.
Appointed President of the Committee of Public Safety
Appointed Member of Committee of Public Safety
Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
The broad and centralized powers of the Committee are codified by the Law of 14 Frimaire (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government)
The broad and centralized powers of the Committee are codified by the Law of 14 Frimaire (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government).
Desmoulins launched Le Vieux Cordelier against the Hebertists, then increasingly criticized emergency committees and promoted the Dantonist call for clemency.
Journalist Camille Desmoulins begins publishing Le Vieux Cordelier, a newspaper which was initially aimed, with the approval of Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety at the ultra-revolutionary Hebertist faction. 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
Appointed Member of Committee of Public Safety
Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Appointed Member of Committee of Public Safety
Boissy DAnglais became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Carried out by the French Committee of Public Safety
Carried out by the French Committee of Public Safety.
Maximin Isnard proposed a committee of 9, the Committee of Public Safety.
Proposes a committee of 9, the Committee of Public Safety
Appointed Member of Committee of Public Safety
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
The Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security ensure that Desmoulins and Danton are arrested
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
The ultimate political vehicle for the Jacobin movement was the Reign of Terror overseen by the Committee of Public Safety, who were given executive powers to purify and unify the Republic
The ultimate political vehicle for the Jacobin movement was the Reign of Terror overseen by the Committee of Public Safety, who were given executive powers to purify and unify the Republic.
Sieyes entered the Committee of Public Safety during the final phase of the Convention and participated in post-Thermidor government.
The Committee's ceased to exist under the Constitution of 1795, which marked the beginning of the Directory
Removed from the Committee of Public Safety
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