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<blockquote>consisted of a massive, multilayered conspiracy by counterrevolutionary agents abetted by the allies, who allegedly—and quite possibly in reality—sought to undermine the Republic through a coordinated effort to corrupt government officials associated with the more moderate wing of the Jacobin establishment and to defame the government by mobilizing elements on the extreme left."<ref name=":3" /></blockquote>
A political faction known as the [[Jacobin]]s, who had a very active radical faction, the [[Girondists]], genuinely feared this conspiratorial plot. [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]], a [[philosophe]] influential in the Enlightenment and fellow Jacobin, spread the idea of a "collective will", a singular purpose which the people of a nation must all unequivocally support. {{citation needed|date=August 2020}} If anyone was against the collective will, they were a part of this counterrevolutionary conspiracy, and since the momentum of the Revolution had to be protected at all costs, any and all threats had to be eliminated. This attitude toward dissension only grew more violent and bloodthirsty throughout 1793-1794 when [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robespierre]] enacted the [[Reign of Terror]]. In order to preserve the "republic of virtue", Robespierre had to ''"''cleanse" the country of anyone who spoke out or acted against the virtues of the revolution by way of the [[guillotine]]. In this tumultuous time, several were justified in fearing for their lives.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}
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