Editing Committee of General Security (section)

{{Short description|1792–1795 French Revolutionary body}}
[[File:Tuileries, façade regardant la cour du Carrousel (dessin) – Destailleur Paris tome 6, 1292 – Gallica 2013 (adjusted).jpg|thumb|The Committee of General Security was located in Hôtel de Brionne on the right; it gathered on the first floor. (The Tuileries Palace, which housed the convention, is on the left)]]
The '''Committee of General Security''' ({{Langx|fr|Comité de sûreté générale}}) was a [[parliamentary committee]] of the French [[National Convention]] which acted as police agency during the [[French Revolution]]. Established as a committee of the Convention in October 1792, it was designed to protect the [[Revolutionary Republic]] from internal enemies. Along with the [[Committee of Public Safety]] it oversaw the [[Reign of Terror]]. The Committee of General Security supervised the local police committees in charge of investigating reports of [[treason]], and was one of the agencies with authority to refer suspects to the [[Revolutionary Tribunal]] for trial and possible execution by [[guillotine]]. In 1794 the committee was involved in the arrest and execution of [[Maximilien Robespierre]] and several of his political allies on [[9 Thermidor]]. On 4 November 1795, along with the end of the National Convention, the Committee of General Security dissolved.

Among its prominent members, there were [[Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier]], [[Jean-Pierre-André Amar]], [[Jean-Paul Marat]] or [[Jacques-Louis David]].