During the Reign of Terror who was safe from the guillotine?
The First Doctor (William Hartnell) his granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford) and her teachers Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill) arrive outside Paris in 18th-century France and venture to a nearby farmhouse. They find it is being used as a staging post in an escape chain for counter-revolutionaries during the Reign of Terror. They are discovered by two counter-revolutionaries D'Argenson (Neville Smith) and Rouvray (Laidlaw Dalling) who knock the Doctor unco…
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 hav…
The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns three lay sisters and two externs (or tertiaries).They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794. They are the first martyrs killed during the French Revolution recognized as saints.
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The guillotine was then the only civil legal execution method in France until the abolition of the death penalty in 1981 apart from certain crimes against the security of the state or for the death sentences passed by military courts which entailed execution by firing squad. Reign of Terror
During the Terror no one was safe f...
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