Lectionary Calendar
Monday, July 8th, 2024
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
advertisement
advertisement
advertisement
Attention!
We are taking food to Ukrainians still living near the front lines. You can help by getting your church involved.
Click to donate today!
Click to donate today!
Bible Encyclopedias
Reign of Terror
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Search for
Resource Toolbox
The name given to the bloody consummation of the fiery French Revolution, including a period which lasted 420 days, from the fall of the Girondists on the 31st May 1793 to the overthrow of Robespierre and his accomplices on 27th July 1794, the actors in which at length, seeing nothing but "Terror" ahead, had in their despair said to themselves, "Be it so. Que la Terreur soit à l'ordre du jour (having sown the wind, come let us reap the whirlwind). One of the frightfulest things ever born of Time. So many as four thousand guillotined, fusilladed, noyaded, done to dire death, of whom nine hundred were women."
Copyright Statement
Public Domain.
Public Domain.
Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Reign of Terror'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​r/reign-of-terror.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Reign of Terror'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​r/reign-of-terror.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.