Chapter VII: The Commune and the Terror, 1793

State of public feeling 156
Girondist and Royalist movements; Resistance in Lyons and Toulon 157
General submission to the Convention 158
War in La Vendée 159
Successes of the Vendeans 160
Successes of the Allies 161
Coolness between Austria and Prussia 162
Assassination of Marat 163
Sanguinary tendencies of the Government 165
Growing strength of the Committee of Public Safety 166
Power of the Commune 167
Views of Hébert and Chaumette 168
Introduction of the conscription 170
Maximum laws 171
Laws against speculation 172
Depression of trade and agriculture 173
Law of ‘Suspected Persons’ 175
Increased activity of the Revolutionary Court 176
Execution of the Queen and the Girondists 177
Worship of Reason 178
Introduction of the Revolutionary calendar 180
Surrender of Lyons 181
Destruction of the Vendean army 182
The Terror in the Departments 183
The Terrorists a small minority 186