March: Robespierre elected as President of the Jacobin Club for one month.
1791
17 July: Repression of the democratic movement on the Champ-de-Mars.
1 October: Opening of the Legislative Assembly.
1792
10 August: Overthrow of the monarchy and formation of the Insurrectionary Commune in Paris, of which Robespierre is a member.
2–6 September: Massacres in the prisons of Paris.
6 September: Robespierre elected deputy for Paris in the Convention.
20 September: Victory for the Republic at the Battle of Valmy.
21 September: Opening of the Convention. Beginning of the First Republic.
1793
21 January: Execution of Louis XVI.
10 March: Creation of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
31 May–2 June: Fall of the Girondins.
23–24 June: Passing of the Constitution.
27 July: Robespierre enters the Committee of Public Safety.
September: ‘Terrorist’ measures put on the agenda on 5 September 1793. Law of Suspects (17 September), the general maximum on prices and wages (29 September).
10 October: Government proclaimed ‘revolutionary until peacetime’.
18 November (27 Brumaire Year II): Report presented by Billaud-Varenne on the functioning of the Revolutionary Government.
1794
4 February (16 Pluviôse Year II): Abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
26 February–3 March (8 and 13 Ventôse Year II): Saint-Just’s Ventôse decrees.
14–24 March (24 Ventôse–4 Germinal): Trial and execution of the Cordeliers.
30 March–5 April (10–16 Germinal): Trial and execution of the ‘Indulgents’.
8 June (20 Prairial): Festival of the Supreme Being.
10 June (22 Prairial): Law of the ‘Great Terror’.
3 July (15 Messidor): Robespierre’s last appearance at the Committee of Public Safety before Thermidor.
27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor Year II): Convention decrees the arrest of the Robespierrists after refusing Robespierre and Saint-Just the right to speak.
28 July 1794 (10 Thermidor Year II): Execution of the Robespierrists.
It is not very surprising that the texts of most of Robespierre’s speeches are available only from contemporary newspaper reports, or that they present variations and the occasional garbled passage. The men running revolutionary France, not just new to the job but trying to transform the way the job was done while learning how to do it, worked punishingly long hours. The situation, in the country and in the shifting new political institutions, changed by the day and often by the hour.
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