The Reign of Terror or The Terror (French: la Terreur), is the label given by some historians to a period during the French Revolution. Different historians place the starting date at either 5 September 1793[1] or June 1793[2] or March 1793 (birth of the Revolutionary Tribunal) or September 1792 (September Massacres) or July 1789 (first decapitations)[3], but generally agree on an ending date of July 1794[1][2].
Between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of which 2,639 were in Paris.[2][4] But the total number of deaths in France was much higher, owning to death in imprisonment, suicide and casualties in foreign and civil war.