Prairial

So if they'd kept it, and we'd adopted it along with the rest of the metric system, today would be Decadi, 30th Prairial, 216.

Archive 2008-06-01 lili 2008

So if they'd kept it, and we'd adopted it along with the rest of the metric system, today would be Decadi, 30th Prairial, 216.

Measuring Up #3 lili 2008

Prairial (10 June 1794), which simplified the proceedings of the Revolutionary

Names 2007

Terror, the Law of 22 Prairial (10 June 1794) further broadened the range of those who could be brought before the Tribunal as suspects, divided the Tribunal into four sections, made the death penalty the only sentence other than acquittal which the Tribunal could hand down, eliminated cross-examination of witnesses, eliminated defense counsel for conspirators (retaining it only for "calumniated patriots"), and allowed juries to consider "either material or moral proofs."

Annotations 2007

But over the course of the spring the delay steadily increased, and after the Law of 22 Prairial (10 June) and the Battle of Fleurus (26 June) the transmission of reports out of Paris and through the Netherlands became extremely precarious.

Introduction 2007

On 10 June the Convention passed the Law of 22 Prairial, written by Couthon and Robespierre, greatly accelerating the Terror by streamlining the process by which suspected counterrevolutionaries were tried and (nearly always) convicted before the Revolutionary Tribunal.

Annotations 2007

Law of 22 Prairial reorganizes and further empowers

Chronology 2007

The Law of 22 Prairial (10 June 1794), written by Couthon and Robespierre, accelerated the Terror in its final six weeks.

Annotations 2007

Revolutionaay [sic] Tribunal passed on the 22d Prairial (June 10), which he alone devised – and which was badly received.

Moniteur/Morning Chronicle 2007

Law of 22 Prairial bestowed great power on the revolutionary tribunal.

1794 2001