<P> On 10 March 1793 the National Convention created the Revolutionary Tribunal . Among those charged by the tribunal, about a half were acquitted (though the number dropped to about a quarter after the enactment of the Law of 22 Prairial). In March rebellion broke out in the Vendée in response to mass conscription, which developed into a civil war that lasted until after the Terror . </P> <P> On 6 April the Committee of Public Safety was created, which gradually became the de facto war - time government . </P> <P> On 2 June, the Parisian sans - culottes surrounded the National Convention, calling for administrative and political purges, a low fixed price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans - culottes alone . With the backing of the national guard, they persuaded the convention to arrest 29 Girondist leaders . In reaction to the imprisonment of the Girondin deputies, some thirteen departments started the Federalist revolt against the National Convention in Paris, which was ultimately crushed . On 24 June, the convention adopted the first republican constitution of France, the French Constitution of 1793 . It was ratified by public referendum, but never put into force . </P> <P> On 13 July the assassination of Jean - Paul Marat--a Jacobin leader and journalist--resulted in a further increase in Jacobin political influence . Georges Danton, the leader of the August 1792 uprising against the king, was removed from the committee . On July 27, 1793, Robespierre became part of the Committee of Public Safety . </P>

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