dec 5, 1793 - Law of Frimaire

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- need for centralisation due to radicalisation and growing power of sans-culottes

- aimed to increase central control of revolutionary government
- largely a response to federalist revolts + vendee
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- CPS had the power to purge local government officials
- all local officials to be placed under supervision of national agent (would be directed on central policy and reported if percieved misconduct is made)
- RMs under CPS control
- evolutionary armies outside of Paris forbidden
- sought to abolish armees revolutionaries
- CPS saw it as a threat to their authority + feared unrestrained radicalism
- can be seen as a step towards dictatorship

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