home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ The Epic Interactive Encyclopedia 1998 / Epic Interactive Encyclopedia, The - 1998 Edition (1998)(Epic Marketing).iso / T / Terror,_Reign_of / INFOTEXT < prev   
Text File  |  1992-09-01  |  272b  |  8 lines
  1. The period of the French Revolution when the
  2. Jacobins were in power (Oct 1793-July 1794)
  3. under Maximilien Robespierre and instituted
  4. mass persecution of their opponents. About
  5. 1,400 were executed, until public indignation
  6. rose and Robespierre was overthrown in July
  7. 1794.
  8.