The Reign of Terror was one of the bloodiest and most violent periods in French history. The Terror lasted thirteen months and with it saw the law of the Maximum, which in theory was supposed to help with the food supplies that France had been dealing with since 1788. But in practice, it caused insufficient quantities of food to arrive in the cities and caused food shortages. get worse. The Terror also led to the de-Christianization of France, which led to the loss of approximately 10% of all constitutional priests and forced French citizens to practice their religion clandestinely from the government. Finally, with the Terror came the reign of Maxilmilien de Robespierre, he was the cause of the Terror from the beginning. Robespierre's rule was one of mass execution, as he believed that anyone who did not agree with his ideas of equality and rights for all deserved to be sent to the guillotine. With these points it goes without saying that the Reign of Terror was indisputably harmful to French citizens. The introduction of Maximum's law was harmful to French citizens, as it worsened the food shortage that began in the winter of 1788. . On September 29, 1793, the Maximum Law was promulgated to control the prices of essential goods and services. Farmers hated it because the price at which these goods and services were sold was generally lower than the cost of production. Since farmers had control of most of the harvest, they would simply stop planting their crops or start hoarding them if they didn't make any profits. This affected citizens as smaller quantities of food arrived in the cities and worsened the food shortages that were already occurring... middle of paper ......d Citizen, who states that "like everyone they are innocent until found guilty' (Declaration No. 9 of the Rights of Man and Citizen), yet he arrested and executed possibly innocent people because they held different opinions from his own. This reinstates the idea that the Reign of Terror was harmful for French citizens because with the Terror came the leadership of Robespierre who accused and executed French citizens without due process The Reign of Terror, a time when many were Left starving due to unproductive laws, Christianity was abolished and became. it was a crime to practice it and approximately 400,000 citizens were accused and killed by guillotine without due process. Identifying these facts essentially means that the Reign of Terror was undeniably harmful to French citizens.