The end of French Revolution: the terror

During the study about the French Revolution this period, called of Terror, is automatically, because it is an event occurred during the Revolution, but the question is why? By now the monarchic power was died and the French was becomes a republic, why this dictatorship? It hasn’t sense, the power was in the hands of national assembly, why the extremism? Simple because the Revolution was became a “revolution”, this is a simple change of power, and the promises were denied. An historic man M. Mortimer-Ternaux (Histoire de la terreur 1792-1794), didn’t why this period and dictatorship and bread of dread, but we can consider from his historical analysis a silent will: “The first tentative made from the demagogues for the proclamation of sovereignty of street”, or of common people: “Begin the period of riot and destroy the fundaments of the old build of monarchic power, it has been ably leaded. The discipline of army was destroyed, but to extreme moment of danger it can be returns. It was against them that have to lead the first efforts of the Jacobins, so trying the realization of the destructive policy. It failed because the ally of army and people was consolidated in spite to country for a great demonstration that the energy it could seem  that the nation has been accomplice…”; naturally we not can but we must think that this author M. Mortimer-Ternaux(1808-1871), was a monarchic later, hence his judge about the Terror is leaded from his personal opinion; it have to habit to the patriotic celebration and to precessions the mob that adore these manifestation…”, certainly it is true, but the author judged it with a ideology that is monarchic, because the words adopted, mob, for example can be no offensive but think with contempt, and certainly he didn’t love the mob, and this of this opinion is confirms form the judge and from following narration: “It was invented, for the solicitation for the war the great accident of Nancy, in year 1790, when the seafaring mutinied, and they told that 40 soldiers that were sent to prisons for the crimes as homicide and robbers…”, and other judges that are similar. Anyway the history continues and now it seems accuse the monarchy: “During the old regime(this is the monarchy) the regiments both strangers and French were employed through the money in the taverns. This blameworthy traffic was to official that wanted reach their sakes…The movement that worked under the wit in years 1789, and it is a counterstrike inevitable both in the army, the dreadful signs of insubordination were manifest for the great number. The policemen in Paris given the examples, and it was followed from same example in Marseille, Grenoble, Metz. In every regiment were committee of under officials and soldiers that have had discussions to superiors, and they discussed their right…”; it explains the birth of terror, the order was necessary in French and the disorder and insubordination were already born during ancient regime; hence the birth of biennial of terror was the exit of a disorder that continued, and the Revolution was by now ended, because the capital condemns were the evident manifestation of the decadence of wit of Revolution; in fact after one year Napoleon was has rescued the Revolution, he came to Italy in 1796, after the second year of Terror, when the Revolution was finished in the deep of soul.

Alessandro Lusana