Maximilien Robespierre headed, for 10 points, what body that ordered many executions by guillotine during the Reign of Terror and the French Revolution?
This body was attacked by the newspaper The Old Cordelier, which criticized it and another body governing "general security." This body was responsible for carrying out the Law of the Maximum, which set price limits. This body was described as "a hand to grasp the weapon of the (*) Revolutionary Tribunal." The National Convention created this body that was originally led by Georges Danton before he was ousted by the Jacobins, and it was disbanded by the Thermidorian Reaction. Maximilien Robespierre headed, for 10 points, what body that ordered many executions by guillotine during the Reign of Terror and the French Revolution?
This body was attacked by the newspaper The Old Cordelier, which criticized it and another body governing "general security.
Committee of Public Safety [Comite de salut public; accept National Convention before "hand"]