<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 revolts 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> <P> On 23 August, the National Convention decreed the Levée en masse, "The young men shall fight; the married man shall forge arms and transport provisions; the women shall make tents and clothes and shall serve in the hospitals; the children shall turn all lint into linen; the old men shall betake themselves to the public square in order to arouse the courage of the warriors and preach hatred of kings and the unity of the Republic ." </P>

Who was the leading figure during the reign of terror