The Reign of Terror

The reign of terror was a period of violence that occur ed fifteen months after the onset of the french revolution. It was indicated by rival political factions, the Girodins and the Jacobins. This was a period when the were mass executions of those who are "against the revolution". Estimates of how many people were killed vary from sixteen thousand to forty thousand people. The guillotine became a symbol of the string of executions, because it was the most common way of performing them. Many important people like Antoine Laoisier, considered the father of chemistry, lost thier lives at this time period.