<P> On 1 October Barère repeated his plea to subdue the Vendée: "refuge of fanaticism, where priests have raised their altars ...". In October the Convention troops captured Lyon and reinstated a Montagnard government there . </P> <P> Criteria for bringing someone before the Revolutionary Tribunal, created March 1793, had always been vast and vague . By August, political disagreement seemed enough to be summoned before the Tribunal; appeal against a Tribunal verdict was impossible . Late August 1793, an army general had been guillotined on the accusation of choosing too timid strategies on the battlefield . Mid-October, the widowed former queen Marie Antoinette was on trial for a long list of charges such as "teaching (her husband) Louis Capet the art of dissimulation" and incest with her son, she too was guillotined . In October 1793, 21 former' Girondins' Convention members who hadn't left Paris after June were convicted to death and executed, on the charge of verbally supporting the preparation of an insurrection in Caen by fellow - Girondins . </P> <P> 17 October 1793, the' blue' Republican army near Cholet defeated the' white' Vendéan insubordinate army and all surviving Vendée residents, counting in tens of thousands, fled over the river Loire north into Brittany . A Convention's representative on mission in Nantes commissioned in October to pacify the region did so by simply drowning prisoners in the river Loire: until February 1794 he drowned at least 4,000 . </P> <P> Meanwhile, the instalment of the Republican Calendar on 24 October 1793 caused an anti-clerical uprising . Hébert's and Chaumette's atheist movement campaigned to dechristianise society . The climax was reached with the celebration of the flame of Reason in Notre Dame Cathedral on 10 November . </P>

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