The+reign+of+Terror

“The Committee shall talk in secret; it shall be responsible for watching over the work of the government…under the critical circumstances it is authorised to take measures to defend the revolution against internal and external enemies.”
 * Source 1: **//Decree by Convention, April 1793 on the Committee of Public Safety. //

“ Suspects shall be locked up…. The proof necessary to convict enemies…can be any kind of evidence….If proof already exists there need be no further witnesses….The penalty for all offences under the law of revolutionary tribunal is death.”
 * Source 2: **//Extract from a law introduced by the Committee for Public Safety, 17th September 1793, to deal with suspects brought to tribunals. //

“A Woman was charged with the crime of having wept at her husband’s execution… she was condemned to sit for hours under the blade which shed upon her, drop by drop the blood of her dead husband…before she was released by death…”
 * Source 3: **//a description of the Terror at Bordeaux. //


 * 1) 1. Look at sources 1 to 3 and at the information on the Committee for Public Safety. Do you think the system of Tribunals in France was fair? Explain why, giving examples from each source. [7]