<P> The betrayal of the revolutionary government by Dumouriez lent greater credence to this belief . In light of this threat, the Girondin leader Maximin Isnard proposed the creation of a nine - member Committee of Public Safety . Isnard was supported in this effort by Georges Danton, who declared, "This Committee is precisely what we want, a hand to grasp the weapon of the Revolutionary Tribunal ." </P> <P> The Committee was formally created on 6 April 1793 . Closely associated with the leadership of Danton, it was initially known as "the Danton Committee". Danton steered the Committee through the 31 May and 2 June 1793 journées that resulted in the fall of the Girondins, and through the intensifying war in the Vendée . However, when the Committee was recomposed on 10 July, Danton was not included . Nevertheless, he continued to support the centralization of power by the Committee . </P> <P> On 27 July 1793, Maximilien Robespierre was elected to the Committee . At this time, the Committee was entering a more powerful and active phase, which would see it become a de facto dictatorship alongside its powerful partner, the Committee of General Security . The role of the Committee of Public Safety included the governance of the war (including the appointment of generals), the appointing of judges and juries for the Revolutionary Tribunal, the provisioning of the armies and the public, the maintenance of public order, and oversight of the state bureaucracy . </P> <P> The Committee was also responsible for interpreting and applying the decrees of the National Convention, and thus for implementing some of the most stringent policies of the Terror--for instance, the levée en masse, passed on 23 August 1793, the Law of Suspects, passed on 17 September 1793, and the Law of the Maximum, passed on 29 September 1793 . The broad and centralized powers of the Committee were codified by the Law of 14 Frimaire (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government) on 4 December 1793 . </P>

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