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the terror - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Herbert called for sans culottes to revolt against Robespierre and promplty arrested- shows Robespierre's personal fears also playing a part of the revolution, however his genuine blief in the supreme being was a profound reson for his paranoia within the montagnards to invigorate and increase the terror through the desire to create a pure nation
- - - - introduced new currency of paper bank notes to replace the worthless assignats
        
        grain prices remained high and riots continued
      - 1795- sans culottes revolution:
        
        vendemaire 1795 - napoleon grapeshot, 6,000 troops vs 30,000 royalists
        
        Babeuf 1796: arrested and executed Babeuf
    - - Napoleon's power- was able to use intidimidation and persuasion at Saint-Cloud. Napoleon was able to toverthreow the directory and seize power because of his own ambition and sifnificant reputation from his succesful commanding of the Armee d'italie and commanded a courrier as well.
        evidence: Armee d'italie (was able to negotiate treaty of Compo Formio without directory involvement)= ambitious, propoganda victory after unsuccesful Egypt campaign overshadowed
      - Reliance on the military: The directory overrelied on the military for economic reasons + to solve uprsiings which meant the power was not really in their hands
        evidence: Prairial Uprising 1795- 20,000 troops sent to suburban paris to restrict them. Weakened their general power base
        
        Italian campaign paid off french debt and fefeated states had to pay indemnities- gave military more power as they now could control the income of the coutnry
      - economic instability, free economy which crushed value of assignat from 34% to 4% and new paper currency only laster a year. harsh winter 1794/95 led to grain shortages and inability to help the situatio caused 2 uprisings.
      - instability in the country: rising white terror due to emergence of royalists: Choan movement with 3000 emigre troops was restored by General Hoche taking 6000 prisoners. coup of floreal may 1798- removed 100 jacobin deputies without military intervention but this eroded democracy and doesn't follow freedom of french frevolution
  - - - robespierre well supported in beginning of terror by sans culottes, however some actions like killing Herbert who was a radical journaliast spelled the declining influence of the sans culottes. and were unmotivated and organized when robespierre face the thermidorian coup
    - - Robespierre alienated himself by murdering even close friends like Camille Desmoulins to the point where the directory was paranoid of him, and his threat to reveal ''traitors' the day before the thermidorian reaction was a major short term cause of him being overthrown
    - - the dictatorship of the terror had become very extreme near 1794 such as the law of 22 prairiial which meant 1400 parisians were killed in 6 weeks, and French armies were no longer threatened therefore such excessive actions against internal enemies was exorbitant.