Reign of Terror
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the Reign of Terror · the despotism of the Jacobin Club
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The period of revolutionary violence in France, named in contrast to loyalist sentiment in La Vendée.
The privileges of the nobility had, before 1789, a far more real existence in La Vendée than in any great town, yet the peasants of La Vendée supported the throne and the altar when Paris supported or tolerated the Reign of Terror.
The first element, though not in the long run the more important, was a dread of combinations, due in the main to the then recent memories of the Reign of Terror.
But to the men who began to take part in public life, or to take an interest in national affairs, between 1815 and 1830, the horrors of the Reign of Terror were mere traditions.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The period of revolutionary violence in France following the abolition of privileges, presented as structurally parallel to the English Civil War.
Then, just as in the French Revolution the Reign of Terror followed upon the abolition of privileges on account of the suspicion that those who had lost by the change were conspiring with foreign armies to get them back;