State of public feeling 156 Girondist and Royalist movements; Resistance in Lyons and Toulon 157 General submission to the Convention 158 War in La Vendée 159 Successes of the Vendeans 160 Successes of the Allies 161 Coolness between Austria and Prussia 162 Assassination of Marat 163 Sanguinary tendencies of the Government 165 Growing strength of the Committee of Public Safety 166 Power of the Commune 167 Views of Hébert and Chaumette 168 Introduction of the conscription 170 Maximum laws 171 Laws against speculation 172 Depression of trade and agriculture 173 Law of ‘Suspected Persons’ 175 Increased activity of the Revolutionary Court 176 Execution of the Queen and the Girondists 177 Worship of Reason 178 Introduction of the Revolutionary calendar 180 Surrender of Lyons 181 Destruction of the Vendean army 182 The Terror in the Departments 183 The Terrorists a small minority 186 CHAPTER VIII. THE FALL OF THE HÉBERTISTS AND DANTONISTS, 1793–1794. Condition of the Army 188 Carnot’s military reforms 189 Campaign in Belgium and the Rhine; Victories of Hondschoote and Wattignies 191 The Allies expelled from Alsace by Hoche and Pichegru 192 Legislation of the Convention 193 Cambon’s financial measures 195 Growing feeling against the Commune 196 Robespierre attacks the Hébertists 197 _The Old Cordelier_ 199 The Hébertists attack the Dantonists 200 Robespierre’s influence over the Jacobins 201 Robespierre abandons the Dantonists 202 Execution of the Hébertists and Dantonists 204 CHAPTER IX. THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE, 1794.