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3.32- The Committee of Public Safety

Revolutions

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The Enrage - The End of the Enrage

On september seventeenth, the law of suspects massively broadened both the definition of suspect and the surveillance powers of the authorities. A few weeks later, the convention then completed its cooption of the sancu lot by rolling out an even more ambitious economic programme. So we are now a long, long way from the tennis court oath and the declaration of the rights of man. The french revolution is now fundamentally no longer about liberty and rights,. It is about obedience and sacrifice. What had begun as a project free the individual from the capricious tyranny of the state had now become the opposite. And if you refused, madame la guillotine awaits because terror is the order

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