<P> By the summer of 1793, most French departments in one way or another opposed the central Paris government, and in many cases' Girondins', fled from Paris after 2 June, led those revolts . In Brittany's countryside, the people rejecting the Civil Constitution of the Clergy of 1790 had taken to a guerrilla warfare known as Chouannerie . But generally, the French opposition against' Paris' had now evolved into a plain struggle for power over the country against the' Montagnards' around Robespierre and Marat now dominating Paris . </P> <P> In June--July 1793, Bordeaux, Marseilles, Brittany, Caen and the rest of Normandy gathered armies to march on Paris and against' the revolution' . In July, Lyon guillotined the deposed' Montagnard' head of the city council . Barère, member of the Committee of Public Safety, on 1 August incited the Convention to tougher measures against the Vendée, at war with Paris since March: "We'll have peace only when no Vendée remains...we'll have to exterminate that rebellious people". In August, Convention troops besieged Lyon . </P> <P> In August--September 1793, militants urged the Convention to do more to quell the counter-revolution . A delegation of the Commune (Paris city council) suggested to form revolutionary armies to arrest hoarders and conspirators . Bertrand Barère, member of the Committee of Public Safety--the de facto executive government--ever since April 1793, among others on 5 September reacted favorably, saying: let's "make terror the order of the day!" On 17 September, the National Convention passed the Law of Suspects, a decree ordering the arrest of all declared opponents of the current form of government and suspected "enemies of freedom". This decree was one of the causes for 17,000 death sentences until the end of July 1794, reason for historians to label those 101⁄2 months' the (Reign of) Terror' . </P> <P> On 19 September the Vendée rebels again defeated a Republican Convention army . 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>

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