Editing Charente-Maritime (section)

==== The Terror ====
[[File:Place Colbert rochefort.JPG|left|thumb|Place Colbert in [[Rochefort, Charente-Maritime|Rochefort]], site of the [[guillotine]].]]
The [[Execution of Louis XVI]] on January 21, 1793, radicalized the Revolution under the [[The Mountain|Montagne]] faction, establishing the ''[[Committee of Public Safety|Comité de salut public]]'' and ''[[Revolutionary Tribunal|Tribunal révolutionnaire]]''. [[Rochefort, Charente-Maritime|Rochefort]] gained strategic importance as the Republic’s key arsenal after Toulon’s fall.<ref name=":27">{{Harvtxt|Boutinet|2001|p=66}}</ref> The Rochefort Revolutionary Court, created November 3, 1793, by Joseph Lequinio and Joseph François Laignelot, became a tool of repression, with the guillotine set up at Place Colbert.<ref name=":27"/> A de-Christianization campaign targeted priests, forcing renunciations and transforming churches into “[[Temple of Reason|temples of Reason]].”<ref>{{Harvtxt|Combes|2001|p=353}}</ref> On January 25, 1794, refractory priests were rounded up for deportation to [[French Guiana]], but British blockades confined them to ships like the “Deux-Associés” off [[Île Madame]], where typhus killed many.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Dubois|1890|p=65}}</ref> Survivors were released in 1795 or later under the 1802 Concordat.<ref name=":62">{{Harvtxt|Dubois|1890|p=217}}</ref> Rural brigandage, including “[[Chauffeur (criminal)|chauffeurs]],” surged amid administrative chaos.<ref name=":63">{{Cite journal |last=Queguiner |first=Jean Pierre |year=1994 |title=Brigands et « chauffeurs » pendant la période révolutionnaire en Charente-Inférieure |trans-title=Brigands and "chauffeurs" during the revolutionary period in Charente-Inférieure |url=https://bibliographienumeriquedhistoiredudroit-ifg.univ-lorraine.fr/s/bibliography-of-legal-history/item/91680 |journal=Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de l'Ouest |language=fr |page=171-175}}</ref>