Committee of Public Safety

Committee of Public Safety was a committee of nine created by the French Convention, April 6, 1793, to concentrate the power of the executive, "the conscience of Marat, who could see salvation in one thing only, in the fall of 260,000 aristocrats' heads". It was notable, therefore, for its excesses in that line, and was not suppressed till October 19, 1796, on the advent of the Directory to power.

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