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.

The Committee of Public Safety is formed based upon Isnards proposal.

Georges Jacques Danton left 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.

Robespierre joins the Committee of Public Safety while Jacobin influence over revolutionary government increases.

Saint-Just joined the Committee of Public Safety and became one of its most forceful younger members.

Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

Billaud-Varenne supported formally naming the extraordinary criminal court the Revolutionary Tribunal.

Saint-Just reported for suspending the 1793 Constitution and maintaining revolutionary government until peace.

Billaud-Varenne presented proposals for strengthening revolutionary government and central authority.

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 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.

Desmoulins launched Le Vieux Cordelier against the Hebertists, then increasingly criticized emergency committees and promoted the Dantonist call for clemency.

Billaud-Varenne argued that the National Convention alone should direct the revolutionary government.

Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

Boissy DAnglais became a member of the 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.

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne published "Elements de Republicanisme", demands the redistribution of property.

Raises the Levee En Masse conscripting the entire male population of France, August. Creates 14 armies from untrained recruits.

Raises the 1st ever compulsory national conscription. Carried out by the French Committee of Public Safety.

Billaud-Varenne supported official commemoration of the execution of Louis XVI as a republican political anniversary.

Robespierre linked republican government with civic virtue in a major report on political morality.

Danton and his allies are arrested after criticism of the Terror and the Committee of Public Safety.

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

Robespierre presented the report that led the Convention to recognize the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul.

The Army of the North defeats an Allied Army at Turcoing.

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.

Saint-Just prepares to defend the Committee of Public Safety as opposition to Robespierre grows.

Saint-Just prepares to defend Robespierre and the authority of the Committee of Public Safety.

Barere accepts the turn against Robespierre and supports emergency measures by the Convention.

Carnot stands with members of the government who reject Robespierres domination.

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.

Jacobin rule increasingly depended on the Committee of Public Safety until Robespierre’s overthrow weakened the movement.

The Convention redistributes executive power among committees to prevent another concentration of authority.

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.

Sieyes helped secure the reinstatement of deputies previously arrested as associates of the Girondins.

Sieyes helped advance a law of general police as the Convention tried to stabilise government after the Terror.

Tallien returned to the Committee of Public Safety as Thermidorian leaders confronted renewed unrest in Paris.