Thermidorian

Robespierre’s execution kicked off the Thermidorian Reaction, in which France returned to more conservative policies.

Critics of the Constitution, then and now, have condemned it as a betrayal of the core principles of the American Revolution, an American version of France’s Thermidorian reaction.

Every revolution, no matter how small and self-invented, creates its own version of the Reign of Terror, and then its own Thermidorian Reaction, when the radical leaders are themselves sent to the guillotine.

The government, mainly Thermidorian, trimmed between Moderates and Independents, and for this reason its actions were often inconsistent.

The Thermidorian government also endeavoured to pacify the rebels of the west.