Committee of Public Safety (France)

Summary

The Committee of Public Safety was the emergency executive committee created by the National Convention and most closely associated with the revolutionary government's wartime powers and the Terror.

Historical role

It matters because it concentrated power in the name of defending the Republic. Under figures such as Robespierre and Saint-Just, it became the central executive organ of revolutionary emergency rule and a symbol of the Revolution's most coercive phase.

Connections

Useful for linking the Terror, emergency governance, military mobilization, political repression, and the Jacobin phase of the French Revolution.