This triggered what would become known as the Terror, or Reign of Terror. This meant that a state of emergency was in force and that the Committee was prepared to use violence against its own citizens to bring stability to France. 5, 1793, the Committee for Public Safety declared France "revolutionary until peace," according to Anne Sa'adah's book " The Shaping of Liberal Politics in Revolutionary France" (Princeton University Press, 2014). "In April 1793, the National Convention created a 12-man Committee of Public Safety, with the aim of taking the emergency measures necessary to save the revolution." According to McPhee, the Committee arrested alleged opponents of the revolution, who were then tried by revolutionary courts. "The critical military and political situation was felt to require an emergency executive," McPhee said.
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