Committee of Public Safety
Maximin Isnard
Girondin leader Maximin Isnard proposes the creation of a nine-member Committee of Public Safety.
Committee of Public Safety
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Committee of Public Safety
Georges Jacques Danton
Georges Jacques Danton helped form the committee of public safety which assumes dictatorial powers.
Committee of Public Safety
Maximin Isnard
The Committee of Public Safety is formed based upon Isnards proposal.
Committee of Public Safety formed: Convention reports consolidated
Bertrand Barere
Barère participated in developing the Committee's role as a coordinating body of national defence. Official reports supplied legislators with a political account of emergency decisions.
Committee of Public Safety formed: First emergency leadership
Georges Jacques Danton
Danton became an influential member of the Committee of Public Safety created to supervise the war and executive action. Its initial membership differed from the later Robespierrist leadership.
Committee of Public Safety formed: Mountain debates central control
Maximilien Robespierre
Robespierre was a powerful Convention voice but did not join the Committee when it was first established. His later inclusion transformed the balance within the emergency government.
Montagnard constitution prepared: Emergency executive takes drafting role
Bertrand Barere
Barère was active in a Committee of Public Safety charged with urgent constitutional and military tasks. Preparations for the new constitution occurred amid civil war and foreign invasion.
Committee of Public Safety
Georges Jacques Danton
Georges Jacques Danton left the Committee of Public Safety.
Committee of Public Safety
Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre
Robespierre joined the Committee of Public Safety as it expanded control over wartime policy, the Terror and the levee en masse.
Committee of Public Safety
Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre
Robespierre joins the Committee of Public Safety while Jacobin influence over revolutionary government increases.
Robespierre Enters Public Safety Committee
Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre
Robespierre joined the Committee of Public Safety as wartime government became increasingly centralized. His association with the Jacobins gave the club a prominent connection to executive authority.
Robespierre joins emergency committee: Committee membership reshapes government
Maximilien Robespierre
Robespierre joined the Committee of Public Safety after Danton's departure from its leadership. He became central to a government increasingly identified with political vigilance and revolutionary virtue.
Committee of Public Safety Membership
Louis Antoine Saint-Just
Saint-Just joined the Committee of Public Safety and became one of its most forceful younger members.
Committee of Public Safety
Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot
Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Committee of Public Safety
Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre
The broad and centralized powers of the Committee are codified by the Law of 14 Frimaire (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government).
Committee of General Security
Camille Desmoulins
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.
Committee of Public Safety
Camille Desmoulins
Desmoulins launched Le Vieux Cordelier against the Hebertists, then increasingly criticized emergency committees and promoted the Dantonist call for clemency.
Committee of Public Safety
Boissy DAnglais
Boissy DAnglais became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Committee of Public Safety
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Committee of Public Safety
Georges Jacques Danton
Carried out by the French Committee of Public Safety.
Committee of Public Safety
Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Committee of Public Safety
Maximin Isnard
Maximin Isnard proposed a committee of 9, the Committee of Public Safety.
Committee of Public Safety Debate on Revolutionary Authority
Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre
Robespierre argued that republican institutions must resist enemies within France while maintaining a moral justification for emergency political power.
Committee of Public Safety entry
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
Carnot entered the Committee of Public Safety in August and became a principal organizer of military affairs.
Committee of Public Safety membership
Georges Jacques Danton
Danton joined the newly created Committee of Public Safety in April and took part in directing urgent executive business.
Committee reorganization
Georges Jacques Danton
Danton lost his place on the Committee of Public Safety in July, reducing his direct influence over wartime executive decisions.
Commune faction disputes centralized committees
Jacques Rene Hebert
Hébert's allies sought to preserve the voice of the sections against increasingly centralized national government. Their contest with the Committee of Public Safety exposed divisions among radical revolutionaries.
Cordeliers demand release of arrested militants
Jacques Rene Hebert
Hébert's circle campaigned for the liberation of Vincent and Ronsin after their arrests. The affair exposed mistrust between local radical clubs and the Committee of Public Safety.
Debate Over the Committee of Public Safety
Maximin Isnard
Isnard took part in proposals to strengthen executive coordination, reflecting the Convention's difficulty directing war and public security through ordinary ministries.
Desmoulins observes expansion of emergency committees
Camille Desmoulins
The Committee of Public Safety and related bodies concentrated exceptional powers during 1793. Desmoulins would soon use his journalism to question the breadth of their coercive authority.
Emergency Committee of Public Safety Established
Georges Jacques Danton
Danton entered the new Committee of Public Safety, which the Convention created to coordinate executive action while retaining formal parliamentary oversight.
Membership of Committee of Public Safety
Louis Antoine Saint-Just
Saint-Just joined the Committee of Public Safety and became an influential advocate of centralized emergency government.
Military Coordination from Public Safety Committee
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
Carnot organized strategic military administration for the Committee of Public Safety, linking the Convention's emergency decrees to operations on several fronts.
Reform of Armed Forces
Georges Jacques Danton
Raises the 1st ever compulsory national conscription. Carried out by the French Committee of Public Safety.
Refusal of renewed committee service
Georges Jacques Danton
Danton declined to resume a seat on the Committee of Public Safety after renewed consideration of his membership in September.
Relationship with Robespierre
Louis Antoine Saint-Just
Saint-Just became one of Robespierre's most reliable associates on the Committee of Public Safety and in the Convention.
Dantonist Crisis
Georges Jacques Danton
Danton and his allies are arrested after criticism of the Terror and the Committee of Public Safety.
Committee of General Security
Camille Desmoulins
The Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security ensure that Desmoulins and Danton are arrested.
Committee of General Security
Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre
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.
Thermidor Crisis
Louis Antoine Saint-Just
Saint-Just prepares to defend the Committee of Public Safety as opposition to Robespierre grows.
Thermidor Crisis
Louis Antoine Saint-Just
Saint-Just prepares to defend Robespierre and the authority of the Committee of Public Safety.
Committee of Public Safety
Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre
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 Club
Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre
Jacobin rule increasingly depended on the Committee of Public Safety until Robespierre’s overthrow weakened the movement.
Committee powers redistributed
Bertrand Barere
The Convention curtailed the concentration of authority in the Committee of Public Safety through institutional reorganization. Barere's former prominence exemplified the influence being reduced as members sought a new balance of power.
Conflict within Public Safety Committee
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
Carnot disagreed with Robespierre and Saint-Just over questions of governance while they shared responsibility for the wartime state.
End of Saint-Just committee service
Louis Antoine Saint-Just
Saint-Just's death terminated his role in the Committee of Public Safety at the moment the revolutionary government began to change direction.
Jacobin Club
Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre
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.
Le Bas Joins Mission to the Northern Front
Philippe Francois Joseph Le Bas
Philippe Le Bas accompanied Saint-Just on a mission to the northern armies as the Committee of Public Safety monitored military progress.
Committee of Public Safety
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
Sieyes entered the Committee of Public Safety during the final phase of the Convention and participated in post-Thermidor government.
Return to Committee of Public Safety
Jean Lambert Tallien
Tallien returned to the Committee of Public Safety as Thermidorian leaders confronted renewed unrest in Paris.
Committee of Public Safety Membership
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
Sieyes joined the Committee of Public Safety during the Thermidorian period, when the government was moving away from the dictatorship of emergency committees.
Departure from committee
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
Carnot ended his service on the Committee of Public Safety in March as France moved away from its wartime revolutionary executive.