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| Aug. 23 |
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| Levy of the entire male population capable of bearing arms. (This levée en masse established the right of the revolutionary state to universal military conscription.) Fourteen armies were hastily organized and put in the field. Caen, Bordeaux, and Marseilles were conquered by the republicans. | 1 |
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| Sept. 29 |
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| Establishment of the maximum price for a large number of commodities; wages were also fixed. This system was never fully worked out, and the maximum was frequently violated. It did, however, prevent a catastrophic fall of the assignats and ensured the provisioning of the armies. The whole experiment was less a socialistic measure than a way to ration goods during an emergency. These prices were put into effect on Feb. 26, 1794. | 2 |
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| Oct. 30 |
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| All women's clubs and political societies closed in an effort to control dissension regarding the Terror. Many of these societies had adopted radical democratic, socialist, and feminist positions. | 3 |
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| Oct. 31 |
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| Girondists were executed. Sixty executions occurred per month, including those of Bailly, Mme. Roland, and Philippe Egalité. Many committed suicide in keeping with the strong stoic tradition and to avoid the state's manipulation of executions to serve its own propaganda purposes. | 4 |
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| Dec |
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| The Allied retreat across the Rhine marked the first appearance of Napoleon Bonaparte, a young Corsican artillery officer connected with Robespierre and the Jacobins. | 5 |
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| Dec. 19 |
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| The Bouquier Law on primary schooling established the principle of obligatory primary schooling, to teach reading, writing, arithmetic, and revolutionary civics. | 6 |
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