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How did the reign of terror go against the principles of the French Revolution ?

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A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of β€œthe enemies of the revolution.” The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine

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