<P> The Reign of Terror, or The Terror (French: la Terreur), is the label given by most historians to a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established . </P> <P> Several historians consider the "reign of terror" to have begun in 1793, placing the starting date at either 5 September, June or March (birth of the Revolutionary Tribunal), while some consider it to have begun in September 1792 (September Massacres), or even July 1789 (when the first beheadings by guillotine took place), but there is a consensus that it ended with the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in July 1794 . </P> <P> Between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of which 2,639 were in Paris . </P> <P> There was a sense of emergency among leading politicians in France in the summer of 1793 between the widespread civil war and counter-revolution . Bertrand Barère exclaimed on 5 September 1793 in the Convention: "Let's make terror the order of the day!" They were determined to avoid street violence such as the September Massacres of 1792 by taking violence into their own hands as an instrument of government . </P>

Who was targeted during the reign of terror