1 Jan 1792 Jahr - Louis XVI attempted to escape to Austria where he hoped to gain assistance from the Austrian monarchy to restore his power in France.

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Louis and his family were captured during their escape attempt and the king and his wife Marie Antoinette were found guilty of treason and beheaded. After the death of the king, France became a republic controlled by an elected National Convention.

The dominant party in the National Convention, the Jacobins, was determined to radically transform France into the utopian democratic republic of virtue that fully realized the ideas espoused in the Enlightenment.
This government implemented radical changes like forcing priests to marry, establishing a new calendar that counted forward from the founding of the Republic instead of the birth of Jesus, and transforming churches into Temples of Reason.
- This change was led by the leader of the Jacobin party Maximilien Robespierre.
Robespierre felt that the greatest threat to the realization of the republic of virtue was from counter-revolutionaries inside France.
- He tasked the Committee of Public Safety with identifying and eliminating this threat.
- 40,000 people were executed by the Committee of Public Safety and 300,000 more were imprisoned during what came to be known as the Reign of Terror in France.
- Instead of suppressing counter-revolutionary sentiment, the Reign of Terror emboldened it.

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