<P> On 16 Pluviôse (4 February 1794), the National Convention decreed that slavery be abolished in all of France and French colonies . </P> <P> On 8 and 13 Ventôse (26 February and 3 March), Saint - Just proposed decrees to confiscate the property of exiles and opponents of the revolution, known as the Ventôse Decrees . </P> <P> By the end of 1793, two major factions had emerged, both threatening the Revolutionary Government: the Hébertists, who called for an intensification of the Terror and threatened insurrection, and the Dantonists, led by Georges Danton, who demanded moderation and clemency . The Committee of Public Safety took actions against both . The major Hébertists were tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal and executed on 24 March . The Dantonists were arrested on 30 March, tried on 3 to 5 April and executed on 5 April . </P> <P> On 20 Prairial (8 June) was celebrated across the country the Festival of the Supreme Being, which was part of the Cult of the Supreme Being, a deist national religion . On 22 Prairial (10 June), the National Convention passed a law proposed by Georges Couthon, known as the Law of 22 Prairial, which simplified the judicial process and greatly accelerated the work of the Revolutionary Tribunal . With the enactment of the law, the number of executions greatly increased, and the period from this time to the Thermidorian Reaction became known as "The Grand Terror". </P>

Following the end of the reign of terror the jacobins