<P> The Committee of Public Safety came under the control of Maximilien Robespierre, a lawyer, and the Jacobins unleashed the Reign of Terror (1793--94). According to archival records, at least 16,594 people died under the guillotine or otherwise after accusations of counter-revolutionary activities . As many as 40,000 accused prisoners may have been summarily executed without trial or died awaiting trial . </P> <P> On 2 June 1793, Paris sections--encouraged by the enragés ("enraged ones") Jacques Roux and Jacques Hébert--took over the 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 managed to persuade the Convention to arrest 31 Girondin leaders, including Jacques Pierre Brissot . Following these arrests, the Jacobins gained control of the Committee of Public Safety on 10 June, installing the revolutionary dictatorship . </P> <P> On 24 June, the Convention adopted the first republican constitution of France, variously referred to as the French Constitution of 1793 or Constitution of the Year I. It was progressive and radical in several respects, in particular by establishing universal male suffrage . It was ratified by public referendum, but normal legal processes were suspended before it could take effect . </P> <P> On 13 July, the assassination of Jean - Paul Marat--a Jacobin leader and journalist known for his bloodthirsty rhetoric--by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin, resulted in further increase of Jacobin political influence . Georges Danton, the leader of the August 1792 uprising against the king, undermined by several political reversals, was removed from the Committee and Robespierre, "the Incorruptible", became its most influential member as it moved to take radical measures against the Revolution's domestic and foreign enemies . </P>

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