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=== Thermidorian Reaction ===
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The [[Thermidorian Reaction]] was a movement within the French Revolution against the perceived excesses of the [[Jacobin Club|Jacobins]]. [[Maximilien Robespierre]]'s [[Reign of Terror]] ended on 27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor year II in the [[French Republican Calendar]]). The overthrow of Robespierre signaled the reassertion of the French [[National Convention]] over the [[Committee of Public Safety]]. The Jacobins were suppressed, the prisons were emptied, and the committee was shorn of its powers. After the execution of some 104 Robespierre supporters, the Thermidorian Reaction stopped using the [[guillotine]] against alleged [[counter-revolutionaries]], set a middle course between the monarchists and the radicals, and ushered in a time of relative exuberance and its accompanying corruption.