the white terror during the french revolution

• the white terror began as soon as Robespierre and his followers were purged. It was a series of campaigns and violent purges that resulted in the death of many Jacobins in prison
• in Paris, the white terror was supported by the Muscadins and the gilded youth as they shut down Jacobin newspapers and threatened Jacobin members.
• In July 1794, the Committee of Public Safety was disbanded and Maximilien Robespierre was arrested and executed along with other radical leaders.
• there was a violent massacre in Lyons in May of 1795 where Jacobin prisoners were taken from their cells and murdered but the scale was much less than the terror