Influences.
The French Revolution was the cause of the up rise of the Terror. At the time people believed that public executions were considered educational. This idea was a serious matter. By July 1792 the Revolutionary Tribunal ordered an execution of 2,400 people, some due to protesting against the Revolution or even those who said any statements that was putting down the Revolution. Maximilien de Robespierre, the main supporter of the Terror, led a group called the Committee of Public Safety. Robespierre made a big impact on this point in history; he influenced the Terror so largely that he made a speech explaining how Terror would lead to the Republic of Virtue. “ If the basis of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the basis of popular government in time of revolution is both virtue and terror: virtue without which terror is murderous, terror without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing else than swift, severe, indomitable justice; it flows, then, from virtue.”, the last line of Robespierre speech that broadly explains that with terror comes virtue. He believed that terror would re-shape the future of France. The Terror began after the death of Louis XVI in 1793. The first victim was Marie Antoinette the wife of Louis XVI. She was imprisoned after the separation of her son, Louis XVII. She led a parade of prominent and not so citizens.