Stephan M Arleaux

Bleue Flamme Stephan M Arleaux

This is the story of what, after the the French revolution, became known as the Reign of Terror or The Terror (French: la Terreur) is the label given by some historians to a period during the French Revolution. Several historians consider the "reign of terror" to have begun in 1793, placing the starting date at either 5 September, June or March (birth of the Revolutionary Tribunal), while some consider it to have begun in September 1792 (September Massacres), or even July 1789 (when the first decapitations took place), but there is a general consensus that it ended with the fall of Robespierre in July 1794 Between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of which 2,639 were in Paris However, the total number of deaths in France was much higher, owing to death in imprisonment, suicide and casualties in foreign and civil war. Robespierre in February 1794 in a speech explained the necessity of terror: If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the basis of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is baneful; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible Justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing needs of the patrie [homeland, fatherland]. Some historians argue that such terror was a necessary reaction to the circumstances. Others suggest there were also other causes, including ideological and emotional. Out of England would come a man known as the "Bleue Flamme" Who risk his life to make a difference for the innocent, This is his story.