On this day in 1793 the French Revolution's "Reign of Terror" officially began. Over the next eleven months the Committee of Public Safety would arrest over 300,000 and execute 17,000 before Robespierre and nineteen other leaders were themselves put to the guillotine. The last six weeks of "Red Terror" were the worst of the worst of times, with over thirty people a day executed in Paris alone. ... FULL STORY »
