Answer: No one was safe from the guillotine.
During the Reign of Terror who was safe from the guillotine?

The Reign of Terror commonly The Terror (French: la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when following the creation of the First French Republic a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour anticlerical sentiment and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. There is disagreement among historians o…

The Reign of Terror commonly The Terror (French: la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when following the creation of the First French Republic a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour anticlerical sentiment and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. There is disagreement among historians over when exactly "the Terror" began. Some consider it to have begun only in 1793 giving the date as either 5 September June or March when the Revolutionary Tribunal came into existence. Others however cite the earlier time of the September Massacres in 1792 or even July 1789 when the first killing of the revolution occurred. The term of "Terror" to describe a period was forged by the Thermidorian Reaction who took power after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in July 1794 to discredit Robespierre and justify their actions. Today there is consensus amongst historians that the exceptional revolutionary measures continued after the death of Robespierre. By then 16 594 official death sentences had been dispensed throughout France since June 1793 of which 2 639 were in Paris alone; and an additional 10 000 died in prison without trial or under both of these circumstances.

There was a sense of emergency among leading politicians in France in the summer of 1793 between the widespread civil war and counter-revolution. Bertrand Barère exclaimed on 5 September 1793 in the convention: "Let's make terror the order of the day!" This quote has frequently been interpreted as the beginning of a supposed "system of Terror" an interpretation no longer retained by historians t…

There was a sense of emergency among leading politicians in France in the summer of 1793 between the widespread civil war and counter-revolution. Bertrand Barère exclaimed on 5 September 1793 in the convention: "Let's make terror the order of the day!" This quote has frequently been interpreted as the beginning of a supposed "system of Terror" an interpretation no longer retained by historians today. Under the pressure of the radical sans-culottes the Convention accepted to institute a revolutionary army but refused to make terror the order of the day. According to French historian Jean-Clément Martin there was no "system of terror" instated by the Convention between 1793 and 1794 despite the pressure from some of its members and the sans-culottes. The members of the convention were determined to avoid street violence such as the September Massacres of 1792 by taking violence into their own hands as an instrument of government. What Robespierre calls "terror" is the fear that the justice of exception shall inspire the enemies of the Republic. He opposes the idea of terror as the order of the day defending instead "justice" as the order of the day. In February 1794 in a speech he explains why this "terror" is necessary as a form of exceptional justice in the context of the revolutionary government: If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue the basis of p...

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