The Law of 22 Prairial

On may eighth, 17 94, the various provincial tribunals were closed. All suspects were now to be carted into paris to have their fate determined. This decision led to massive overcrowding in the paris prisons. So almost overnight, the pressures of overcrowding needed to be addressed. And addressed it soon would be. But before we get into the law of 22 prairial and the beginning of the great terror, we need to swing back through the mind of robespierre and deal with his fancied new religion. Now the ultras who saw religion as an enemy of france, robespierre saw religion as one of the great vehicles for the promotion of virtue.