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Louise Saint-Just once said, “The Republic consists of the extermination of everything that opposes it.” Being the right-hand man of Robespierre, the leader of the Terror, Saint-Just is obviously referring to the First Republic of France from 1792-1795. What he means by this, is that the essence of the sovereignty of the Republic was that it literally wiped out anyone, or anything that had opposing ideas to it or that posed any threat to it’s power. One would have to agree with his statement because the Republic literally did kill everyone that opposed to it. ... This proves that the essence of the Republics power truly was in exterminating the opposition, because as soon as they slipped up a bit, the Republic was overthrown. However they had managed to completely suppress any opposition to the Republic for almost two years before and there are many examples of this brutal suppression, which support Saint-Just’s statement and demonstrate the extermination of opposition.
From day one, the First Republic of France (which will now simply be referred to as: the Republic) exercised a policy of the extermination of all that opposed it. One of the first things the Jacobins did was to depose Louise. ... This occurred in late September of 1792. However, the Republic clearly felt that merely removing Louise from power was not enough to suppress the threat he posed. ... They made him appear as an enemy to the Republic and that he was a danger. The Convention guillotined Louise on January 21st, 1793, less then four months after the establishment of the new Republic. ... In September of 1792, Marat, a member of a branch of the Jacobin club, led a massacre on priests and royalists in the prisons in Paris. ... The Church had openly condemned this policy of the new governments, and therefore many priests and clergymen who didn’t swear allegiance to this new constitution were imprisoned. ... However in September 1792, Marat, accompanied by the Paris mob, massacred considerably more then 1000 prisoners in Paris.
Approximate Word count = 1700
Approximate Pages = 6.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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