Editing Committee of Public Safety

{{short description|De facto executive government in France (1793–1794)}}
{{other uses|Committee of Public Safety (disambiguation)}}
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| formation = 6 April 1793
| abolished = 25 October 1795
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The '''Committee of Public Safety''' ({{langx|fr|link=no|Comité de salut public}}) was a committee of the [[National Convention]] which formed the [[provisional government]] and war cabinet during the [[Reign of Terror]], a violent phase of the [[French Revolution]]. Supplementing the Committee of General Defence, created early January 1793, the Committee of Public Safety was created on 6 April 1793 by the [[National Convention]].<ref>Raphaël Matta-Duvignau, Gouverner, administrer révolutionnairement : le Comité de salut public (6 avril 1793–4 brumaire an IV), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2013</ref> It was charged with protecting the new republic against its foreign and domestic enemies, fighting the [[War of the First Coalition|First Coalition]] and the [[War in the Vendée|Vendée revolt]]. As a wartime measure, the committee was given broad supervisory and administrative powers over the armed forces, judiciary and legislature, as well as the executive bodies and ministers of the convention.

As the committee, restructured in July, raised the defense (''[[levée en masse]]'') against the monarchist coalition of European nations and counter-revolutionary forces within France, it became more and more powerful. In December 1793, the Convention formally conferred executive power upon the committee{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}. <!-- Is this perhaps referring to the Law of Suspects? Otherwise I can find no official degree of "conferring executive power upon the committee". Executive power to do...what, exactly? -->Among the members, the radical Montagnard [[Jacobin]] [[Maximilien Robespierre]] was one of the most well-known, though he did not have any special powers or privileges.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Committee of Public Safety |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Committee-of-Public-Safety |date=11 May 2020 |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=27 April 2023}}</ref> After the arrest and execution of the rival factions of [[Hébertists]] and [[Georges Danton|Dantonists]], sentiment in the Convention eventually turned against Robespierre, who was executed in July 1794. In the following [[Thermidorian Reaction]], the committee's influence diminished after 15 months and it disappeared on the same day as the [[National Convention]], which was 25 October 1795, but it probably continued till the end of the month.<ref>Raphaël Matta-Duvignau, Gouverner, administrer révolutionnairement : le Comité de salut public (6 avril 1793–4 brumaire an IV), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2013 [https://books.google.com/books?id=kdQlvwYm_KIC&pg=PA557]</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Committee-of-Public-Safety|title=Committee of Public Safety|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2017-09-20|language=en}}</ref><ref>[https://artflsrv04.uchicago.edu/philologic4.7/revlawall0922v2/navigate/86/43 Vol. 67 (Brumaire an IV ; 23 octobre–26 octobre 1795) Collection Baudouin]</ref>

== Origins and evolution ==

=== Social climate of Revolutionary France ===
The [[French Revolution]] brought about an immense shift in society in which citizens desired to bring about a new age of critical rationality, [[egalitarianism]], and patriotism amongst French men.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tackett |first=Timothy |title=The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution |publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780674425163 |location=Cambridge, Mas |pages=121}}</ref> Revolutionary ideals were spread throughout France and a belief in [[democracy]] and civilian government was heralded as the new era of French civilization.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tackett |first=Timothy |title=The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution |publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780674425163 |location=Cambridge, Mass |pages=121–122}}</ref> 1793 would bring a new republican constitution, drafted by the National Assembly.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tackett |first=Timothy |title=The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution |publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780674425163 |location=Cambridge, Mass |pages=245}}</ref> [[French Constitution of 1793|The French Constitution of 1793]] and its subsequent government would bring sweeping reforms to French politics and the French social order. Major reforms included comprehensive education, the recognition of rights for illegitimate children and improved rights for married women.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tackett |first=Timothy |title=The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution |publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780674425163 |location=Cambridge, Mass |pages=313}}</ref>

The French Constitution of 1793 outlined the prevailing [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] era ideology of the French government at this stage of the revolutionary period. The constitution outlines a right to the resistance of oppression as well as the right to personal liberty.<ref>{{Cite book |last=The Committee of Constitution |title=The New Constitution of France |publisher=London: Printed for J. Ridgway |year=1793 |location=London |pages=3}}</ref> The equality of all French men is detailed as is the structure of the [[French First Republic|French Republic]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=The Committee of Constitution |title=The New Constitution of France |publisher=London: Printed for J. Ridgway |year=1793 |location=London |pages=4–7}}</ref> The new constitution and the shift into a republican government centered on the National Assembly created the atmosphere for a radicalized governing authority to take power.<ref name="Tackett 2015 251">{{Cite book |last=Tackett |first=Timothy |title=The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution |publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780674425163 |location=Cambridge, Mass |pages=251}}</ref> Members of the French common classes such as the [[Sans-culottes|Sans-Culottes]] turned to radicalism and inspired militant activism among the French populace.<ref name="Tackett 2015 251"/>

=== Committee of discussion ===
[[File:Lettre anglaise.jpg|thumb|''Lettre anglaise'' (''English Letter'') dated 29 June 1793 as published by the [[National Convention]] during the [[French Revolution]] (1793) to prove English spying and conspiracy]]

On 5 April 1793, the French military commander and former minister of war General [[Charles François Dumouriez]] defected to Austria following the publication of an incendiary letter in which he threatened to march his army on the city of Paris if the National Convention did not accede to his leadership. News of his defection caused alarm in Paris, where imminent defeat by the Austrians and their allies was feared. A widespread belief held that revolutionary France was in immediate peril, threatened not only by foreign armies and by recent revolts in the [[War in the Vendée|Vendée]], but also by foreign agents who plotted the destruction of the nation from within.<ref name="Belloc210">{{harvp|Belloc|1899|p=210}}.</ref> Dumouriez's defection lent greater credence to this belief. In light of this threat, the [[Girondin]] leader [[Maximin Isnard]] proposed the creation of a nine-member Committee of Public Safety. Isnard was supported in this effort by [[Georges Danton]], who declared: "This Committee is precisely what we want, a hand to grasp the weapon of the [[Revolutionary Tribunal]]".<ref name="Belloc210" />

After a proposal by [[Bertrand Barère]] on 18 March the committee was created on 6 April 1793. Closely associated with the leadership of Danton, it was initially known as the Danton Committee.<ref name="mantel">{{harvp|Mantel|2009}}.</ref> Danton steered the Committee through the [[Days of 31 May and 2 June 1793|31 May and 2 June 1793 ''journées'']] that saw the violent expulsion of the Girondins and through the intensifying war in the Vendée. When the committee was recomposed on 10 July 1793, Danton was not included. Nevertheless, he continued to support the centralization of power by the committee.<ref name="Belloc235">{{harvp|Belloc|1899|p=235}}.</ref>

On 27 July 1793, Maximilien Robespierre was elected to the committee. At this time, the committee was entering a more powerful and active phase, alongside its  partner, the [[Committee of General Security]]. The role of the Committee of Public Safety included the governance of the war (including the appointment of generals), the appointing of judges and juries for the Revolutionary Tribunal,<ref name="Scurr284">{{harvp|Scurr|2006|p=284}}.</ref> the provisioning of the armies and the public, the maintenance of public order and oversight of the state bureaucracy.<ref name="Furet134">{{harvp|Furet|1992|p=134}}.</ref>

The committee was also responsible for interpreting and applying the decrees of the [[National Convention]] and thus for implementing some of the most stringent policies of the Terror—for instance, the ''[[levée en masse]]'' passed on 23 August 1793, the [[Law of Suspects]] passed on 17 September 1793 and the [[Law of the General Maximum]] passed on 29 September 1793. The broad and centralized powers of the committee were codified by the [[Law of 14 Frimaire]] (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government) on 4 December 1793.{{Citation needed|date=September 2017}}

==== Execution of the Hébertists and Dantonists ====
On 5 December 1793, journalist [[Camille Desmoulins]] began publishing ''[[Le Vieux Cordelier]]'' with the approval of Robespierre and the Committee''.<ref name="Furet141">{{harvp|Furet|1992|p=141}}.</ref>'' This newspaper was initially aimed against the ultrarevolutionary [[Hébertist]] faction, whose extremist demands, anti-religious fervor and propensity for sudden insurrections troubled the committee. However, Desmoulins quickly turned his pen against the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security, comparing their reign to that of the Roman tyrants chronicled by [[Tacitus]] and expounding the indulgent views of the Dantonist faction.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

Consequently, though the Hébertists were arrested and executed in March 1794, the Committees had Desmoulins and Danton arrested as well. [[Herault de sechelles|Hérault de Séchelles]], a friend and ally of Danton, was expelled from the Committee of Public Safety, arrested and tried alongside them. On 5 April 1794, the Dantonists went to the guillotine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucumberlands.edu/downloads/academics/history/vol6/AaronPurcell94.html|title=Danton Versus Robespierre: The Quest for Revolutionary Power|website=ucumberlands.edu|access-date=20 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908221348/http://www.ucumberlands.edu/downloads/academics/history/vol6/AaronPurcell94.html|archive-date=8 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Committee of rule ===
[[File:Louis Boilly Robespierre.jpg|thumb|[[Maximilien Robespierre]], member of the Committee of Public Safety]]

The elimination of the Hébertists and the Dantonists made evident the strength of the Committees to control and silence opposition. The creation in March 1794 of a General Police Bureau—reporting nominally to the Committee of Public Safety—served to increase the power of the Committee of Public Safety.

However, even as the period later known as the 'Terror' reached its height and with it the committee's political power, discord was growing within the revolutionary government. Members of the Committee of General Security resented the aggressive behavior of the Committee of Public Safety and particularly the encroachment of the General Police Bureau upon their own brief.<ref name="Scurr331">{{harvp|Scurr|2006|p=331}}.</ref> Arguments within the Committee of Public Safety itself had grown so violent that it relocated its meetings to a more private room to preserve the illusion of agreement.<ref name="Scurr340">{{harvp|Scurr|2006|p=340}}.</ref> On 21 May 1794 the revolutionary government decided that the judicial system would be centralised, with almost all 
the [[revolutionary Tribunal|tribunals]] in the provinces closed and all the capital trials held in Paris.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9lWNCwAAQBAJ&dq=government+decided+that+the+Terror+would+be+centralised&pg=PR14-IA87 The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by Ian Davidson, p. xiv]</ref>

The [[Law of 22 Prairial]], proposed by the committee and enacted by the convention on 10 June 1794, went further in establishing the control of the Revolutionary Tribunal and above it the Convention and Committees of Public Safety and General Security. The law enumerated various forms of public enemies, required their denunciation, and severely limited the legal recourse available to those accused. The punishment for all crimes covered under this law was death; from its inception to its removal, more people were condemned to death in Paris than in the entire previous history of the Revolutionary Tribunal.<ref name="Scurr328">{{harvp|Scurr|2006|p=328}}.</ref> However, this statistic is accentuated by the fact that, as noted previously, all capital trials and sentences were carried out in Paris rather than being scattered across the provinces.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hazan |first=Eric |title=A People's History of the French Revolution |date=2014 |publisher=Verso |location=Paris, France |pages=384}}</ref>

Robespierre, a fervent supporter of the theistic [[Cult of the Supreme Being]], found himself frequently in conflict with anti-religious Committee members [[Collot d'Herbois]] and [[Billaud-Varenne]]. Moreover, Robespierre's increasingly extensive absences from the Committee due to illness (he all but ceased to attend meetings in June 1794) created the impression among some members that he was isolated and out of touch. [[Charlotte Robespierre]] reported in her memoirs that Robespierre had come into conflict with several of the representatives on mission due to their excessive use of violence, which likely also led to the unity of the Committee devolving.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Robespierre |first=Charlotte |title=Memoirs of Charlotte Robespierre |pages=Ch. 5}}</ref>

=== Fall of the Committee and aftermath ===
[[File:Comité-salut-public.JPG|thumb|Comité de Salut public, An II]]

When it became suspected in mid-July 1794 that Robespierre and Saint-Just were planning to strike against their political opponents [[Joseph Fouché]], [[Jean-Lambert Tallien]] and [[Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier]] (the latter two members of the Committee of General Security), the fragile truce within the government was dissolved. Saint-Just and his fellow Committee of Public Safety member [[Bertrand Barère]] attempted to keep the peace between the Committees of Public Safety and General Security. However, Robespierre delivered a speech to the National Convention on 26 July 1794 in which he emphasized the need to "purify" the Committees and "crush all factions".<ref name="Madelin418">{{harvp|Madelin|1916|p=418}}.</ref> In a speech to the [[Jacobin Club]] that night, he attacked Collot d'Herbois and Billaud-Varenne, who had refused to allow the printing and distribution of his speech to the convention.

On the following day, 27 July 1794 ([[9 Thermidor]] according to the [[French Republican calendar|Republican calendar]]), Saint-Just began to speak before the Convention. <!-- deleted "perhaps planning to denounce Collot, BV, and other members of the CSP" (paraphrased) because we have record of the speech he tried to give and it was not about that. -->However, he was almost immediately interrupted by Tallien and by Billaud-Varenne, who accused him of intending to "murder the Convention".<ref name="Madelin422">{{harvp|Madelin|1916|p=422}}.</ref> Barère, Vadier and [[Stanislas Fréron]] joined the accusations against Saint-Just and Robespierre. The Convention ordered the arrest of Robespierre, his brother [[Augustin Robespierre|Augustin]], and Saint-Just, along with that of their supporters, including [[Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas|Philippe Le Bas]] and [[Georges Couthon]].

A period of intense civil unrest ensued, during which the members of the Committees of Public Safety and General Security were forced to seek refuge in the convention. The Robespierre brothers, Saint-Just, Le Bas and Couthon ensconced themselves in the {{lang|fr|[[Hôtel de Ville, Paris|Hôtel de Ville]]|italic=no}}, attempting to incite an insurrection. Ultimately, faced with defeat and arrest, Le Bas committed suicide, while Saint-Just, Couthon, and Maximilien and Augustin Robespierre were arrested and guillotined on 28 July 1794.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1983-4/mcletchie.htm|title=Maximilien Robespierre, Master of the Terror|website=loyno.edu|access-date=20 September 2017}}</ref>

The ensuing period of upheaval, dubbed the [[Thermidorian Reaction]], saw the repeal of many of the previous year's most unpopular laws and the restriction of the Committees of General Security and Public Safety. The Committees ceased to exist under the [[Constitution of the Year III]] (1795), which marked the beginning of the [[French Directory|Directory]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2017}}

==Composition==
{{unreferenced section|date=March 2019}}

===Committee of General Defence (25 March {{ndash}} 6 April 1793)===
;Party breakdown
{|
|-
|
* [[The Mountain]] (Left) (Enemy of Girondins)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|The Mountain}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 260px;">13</div>
|-
|
* [[The Girondins]] (Left) (Enemy of The Mountain)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|Girondin}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 180px;">9</div>
|-
|
* [[The Plain]] (Left) 
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|The Plain}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 60px;">3</div>
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.4em; text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
|-
| [[File:Barbaroux par Danloux.jpg|80px]]
! [[Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux|Charles Barbaroux]]
| [[Bouches-du-Rhône]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Girondin}}" |
| [[Girondins]]
|-
| [[File:Barére de Vieuzac.JPG|80px]]
! [[Bertrand Barère]]
| [[Hautes-Pyrénées]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:BREARD Jean-Jacques.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Bréard]]
| [[Charente-Maritime|Charente-Inférieure]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 166 Buzot (F.N.L., 1760-1794).JPG|80px]]
! [[François Buzot]]
| [[Eure]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Girondin}}" |
| [[Girondins]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 277 Cambacères (J.J.R., 1753-1824).JPG|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès]]
| [[Hérault]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 032 Camus (A.G., 1740-1804).JPG|80px]]
! [[Armand-Gaston Camus]]
| [[Haute-Loire]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Nicolas de Condorcet.PNG|80px]]
! [[Marquis de Condorcet|Nicolas de Condorcet]]
| [[Aisne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Girondin}}" |
| [[Girondins]]
|-
| [[File:Georges Danton.jpg|80px]]
! [[Georges Danton]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Jean de Bry, by Jean Louis Laneuville.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean Debry]]
| [[Aisne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| 
! [[Jean-François-Bertrand Delmas]]
| [[Haute-Garonne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Rouillard - Camille Desmoulins.jpg|80px]]
! [[Camille Desmoulins]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Edmond Louis Dubois-Crancé - François Bonneville.jpg|80px]]
! [[Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé|Edmond Dubois-Crancé]]
| [[Ardennes (department)|Ardennes]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Fabre d'Églantine 01.gif|80px]]
! [[Fabre d'Églantine]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 049 Gensonné (A., 1758-1793).JPG|80px]]
! [[Armand Gensonné]]
| [[Gironde]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Girondin}}" |
| [[Girondins]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 051 Guadet (M.E., 1758-1794).JPG|80px]]
! [[Marguerite-Élie Guadet|Élie Guadet]]
| [[Gironde]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Girondin}}" |
| [[Girondins]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 182 Guyton de Morveau (L.B., baron, 1737-1816).JPG|80px]]
! [[Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau]]
| [[Côte-d'Or]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 048 Isnard (M., 1761-1830).JPG|80px]]
! [[Maximin Isnard]]
| [[Var (department)|Var]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Girondin}}" |
| [[Girondins]]
|-
| [[File:Marc David Alba Lasource 02.jpg|80px]]
! [[Marc David Alba Lasource|Marc-David Lasource]]
| [[Tarn (department)|Tarn]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Girondin}}" |
| [[Girondins]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 043 Pétion (Jérôme, 1753-1794).JPG|80px]]
! [[Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve|Jérôme Pétion Jr.]]
| [[Eure-et-Loir]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Girondin}}" |
| [[Girondins]]
|-
| [[File:Prieur de la Marne IMG 2320.JPG|80px]]
! [[Pierre Louis Prieur]]
| [[Marne (department)|Marne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Quinette.jpg|80px]]
! [[Nicolas Marie Quinette]]
| [[Aisne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Robespierre - physionotrace.jpg|80px]]
! [[Maximilien Robespierre]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 150 Ruhl (P.J., 1737-1795).JPG|80px]]
! [[Philippe Rühl]]
| [[Bas-Rhin]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, by Jacques Louis David.jpg|80px]]
! [[Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès]]
| [[Sarthe]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 132 Vergniaud (P.V., 1758-1793).JPG|80px]]
! [[Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud|Pierre Vergniaud]]
| [[Gironde]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Girondin}}" |
| [[Girondins]]
|}

===1st Committee (6 April {{ndash}} 10 July 1793)===
;Party breakdown
{|
|-
|
* [[The Mountain]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|The Mountain}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 140px;">6</div>
|-
|
* [[The Plain]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|The Plain}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 40px;">3</div>
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.4em; text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
|-
| [[File:Barére de Vieuzac.JPG|80px]]
! [[Bertrand Barère]]
| [[Hautes-Pyrénées]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:BREARD Jean-Jacques.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Bréard]]
| [[Charente-Maritime|Charente-Inférieure]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 058 Cambon (J., 1754-1820).JPG|80px]]
! [[Pierre-Joseph Cambon]]
| [[Hérault]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:Georges Danton.jpg|80px]]
! [[Georges Danton]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Jean de Bry, by Jean Louis Laneuville.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean Debry]]
| [[Aisne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 139 Lacroix (J.F. de, 1754-1794).JPG|80px]]
! [[Jean-François Delacroix]]
| [[Eure-et-Loir]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| 
! [[Jean-François-Bertrand Delmas]]
| [[Haute-Garonne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 182 Guyton de Morveau (L.B., baron, 1737-1816).JPG|80px]]
! [[Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau]]
| [[Côte-d'Or]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 289 Treilhard (J.B., 1742-1810).jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean-Baptiste Treilhard]]
| [[Seine-et-Oise]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|}

===2nd Committee (10 July {{ndash}} 5 September 1793)===
;Party breakdown
{|
|-
|
* [[The Mountain]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|The Mountain}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 120px;">6</div>
|-
|
* [[The Plain]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|The Plain}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 60px;">3</div>
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.4em; text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
|-
| [[File:Barére de Vieuzac.JPG|80px]]
! [[Bertrand Barère]]
| [[Hautes-Pyrénées]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:François Bonneville - Portrait présumé de Georges Couthon (1755-1794), conventionnel - P16 - Musée Carnavalet.jpg|80px]]
! [[Georges Couthon]]
| [[Puy-de-Dôme]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin.jpg|80px]]
! [[Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin]]
| [[Bouches-du-Rhône]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 161 Jean Bon Saint-André (1749-1813).JPG|80px]]
! [[Jeanbon Saint-André|André Jeanbon]]
| [[Lot (department)|Lot]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Robert Lindet.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet|Robert Lindet]]
| [[Eure]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:Prieur de la Marne IMG 2320.JPG|80px]]
! [[Pierre Louis Prieur]]
| [[Marne (department)|Marne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Louis-Antoine-de-Saint-Just.jpg|80px]]
! [[Louis Antoine de Saint-Just|Louis de Saint-Just]]
| [[Aisne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Jean-Louis Laneuville - Portrait de Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles (1759-1794) - P2539 - Musée Carnavalet.jpg|80px]]
! [[Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles|Jean Hérault de Séchelles]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Jacques-Alexis Thuriot, dit Thuriot de la Rosière.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jacques-Alexis Thuriot de la Rosière|Jacques-Alexis Thuriot]]
| [[Marne (department)|Marne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|}

;Changes:
* On 30 May or 11 June, Saint-Just, Couthon and Hérault de Séchelles (Mountain) were admitted to the committee.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
* On 27 July 1793, Gasparin was substituted by [[Maximilien Robespierre]] (Mountain).

===3rd Committee (5 September 1793 {{ndash}} 31 July 1794)===
;Party breakdown
{|
|-
|
* [[The Mountain]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|The Mountain}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 200px;">9</div>
|-
|
* [[The Plain]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|The Plain}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 40px;">3</div>
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.4em; text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
|-
| [[File:Barére de Vieuzac.JPG|80px]]
! [[Bertrand Barère]]
| [[Hautes-Pyrénées]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:Billaud-Varenne.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Portrait Lazare Carnot.jpg|80px]]
! [[Lazare Carnot]]
| [[Pas-de-Calais]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 143 Collot d'Herbois (J.M., 1750-1796).JPG|80px]]
! [[Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois|Jean-Marie Collot]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Georges Couthon.png|80px]]
! [[Georges Couthon]]<br/>{{small|(Before [[Thermidorian Reaction|27 July 1794]])}}
| [[Puy-de-Dôme]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 161 Jean Bon Saint-André (1749-1813).JPG|80px]]
! [[Jeanbon Saint-André|André Jeanbon]]
| [[Lot (department)|Lot]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Robert Lindet.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet|Robert Lindet]]
| [[Eure]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Plain}}" |
| [[The Plain|Plain]]
|-
| [[File:Prieur de la Marne IMG 2320.JPG|80px]]
! [[Pierre Louis Prieur]]
| [[Marne (department)|Marne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois.png|80px]]
! [[Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois|Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois]]
| [[Côte-d'Or]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Robespierre crop.jpg|80px]]
! [[Maximilien Robespierre]]<br/>{{small|(Before [[Thermidorian Reaction|27 July 1794]])}}
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Louis-Antoine-de-Saint-Just.jpg|80px]]
! [[Louis Antoine de Saint-Just|Louis de Saint-Just]]<br/>{{small|(Before [[Thermidorian Reaction|27 July 1794]])}}
| [[Aisne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|-
| [[File:Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, conventionnel by Jean-Louis Laneuville (Carnavalet P 2539) 02.jpg|80px]]
! [[Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles|Jean Hérault de Séchelles]]<br/>{{small|(Before 17 March 1794)}}
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain|Mountain]]
|}

;Changes:
* On 17 March 1794, Hérault de Séchelles (Mountain) was arrested for treason, leaving his post vacant.
* On 27 July 1794, Robespierre, Saint-Just and Couthon (Mountain) were arrested and executed the following day.
* On 27 July 1794, the three were substituted by [[Jean-Lambert Tallien]] (Mountain).

===4th–5th Committees (1 September {{ndash}} 7 November 1794)===
;Party breakdown
{|
|-
|
* [[Thermidorians]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|Thermidorians}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 220px;">11</div>
|-
|
* [[The Mountain]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|The Mountain}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 20px;">1</div>
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.4em; text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=5 | 4th Committee<br/>{{small|(September{{ndash}}October)}}
! colspan=5 | 5th Committee<br/>{{small|(October{{ndash}}November)}}
|-
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
|-
| [[File:BREARD Jean-Jacques.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Bréard]]
| [[Charente-Maritime|Charente-Inférieure]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Portrait Lazare Carnot.jpg|80px]]
! [[Lazare Carnot]]
| [[Pas-de-Calais]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| [[File:Prieur de la Marne IMG 2320.JPG|80px]]
! [[Pierre Louis Prieur]]
| [[Marne (department)|Marne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain]]
|-
| 
! [[Jean-François-Bertrand Delmas]]
| [[Haute-Garonne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Joseph Eschassériaux.jpg|80px]]
! [[Joseph Eschassériaux]]
| [[Charente-Maritime|Charente-Inférieure]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Lemonnier - Antoine-François de Fourcroy.jpg|80px]]
! [[Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy|Antoine François de Fourcroy]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| 
! [[Pierre Antoine Laloy|Pierre-Antoine Laloy]]
| [[Haute-Marne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Cochon Lapparent Charles.png|80px]]
! [[Charles Cochon de Lapparent]]
| [[Deux-Sèvres]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| 
! [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Matthieu|Jean-Baptiste Matthieu]]
| [[Oise]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Merlin de Douai by Hilaire Ledru 1812.jpg|80px]]
! [[Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai|Philippe-Antoine Merlin]]
| [[Nord (French department)|Nord]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois.png|80px]]
! [[Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois|Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois]]
| [[Côte-d'Or]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| [[File:AduC 182 Guyton de Morveau (L.B., baron, 1737-1816).JPG|80px]]
! [[Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau]]
| [[Côte-d'Or]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 289 Treilhard (J.B., 1742-1810).jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean-Baptiste Treilhard]]
| [[Seine-et-Oise]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Jacques-Alexis Thuriot, dit Thuriot de la Rosière.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jacques-Alexis Thuriot de la Rosière|Jacques-Alexis Thuriot]]
| [[Marne (department)|Marne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain#Decline and fall|Crest]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|}

===6th–7th Committees (7 November 1794 {{ndash}} 7 January 1795)===
;Party breakdown
{|
|-
|
* [[Thermidorians]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|Thermidorians}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 220px;">10</div>
|-
|
* [[Miscellaneous right|Conservatives]] (Right)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|Miscellaneous right}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 20px;">1</div>
|-
|
* [[The Mountain|The Crest]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|The Mountain}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 20px;">1</div>
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.4em; text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=5 | 6th Committee<br/>{{small|(November{{ndash}}December)}}
! colspan=5 | 7th Committee<br/>{{small|(December{{ndash}}January)}}
|-
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
|-
| [[File:BREARD Jean-Jacques.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Bréard]]
| [[Charente-Maritime|Charente-Inférieure]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{no2|Vacant}}
|-
| 
! [[Jean-François-Bertrand Delmas]]
| [[Haute-Garonne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:AduC 277 Cambacères (J.J.R., 1753-1824).JPG|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès]]
| [[Hérault]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Portrait Lazare Carnot.jpg|80px]]
! [[Lazare Carnot]]
| [[Pas-de-Calais]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Lemonnier - Antoine-François de Fourcroy.jpg|80px]]
! [[Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy|Antoine François de Fourcroy]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Cochon Lapparent Charles.png|80px]]
! [[Charles Cochon de Lapparent]]
| [[Deux-Sèvres]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{no2|Vacant}}
|-
| 
! [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Matthieu|Jean-Baptiste Matthieu]]
| [[Oise]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Merlin de Douai by Hilaire Ledru 1812.jpg|80px]]
! [[Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai|Philippe-Antoine Merlin]]
| [[Nord (French department)|Nord]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:AduC 182 Guyton de Morveau (L.B., baron, 1737-1816).JPG|80px]]
! [[Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau]]
| [[Côte-d'Or]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Jean_Pelet_de_la_Lozère_(1759-1842).jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean Pelet]]
| [[Lozère]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Miscellaneous right}}" |
| [[Miscellaneous right|Conservative]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Prieur de la Marne IMG 2320.JPG|80px]]
! [[Pierre Louis Prieur]]
| [[Marne (department)|Marne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Jacques-Alexis Thuriot, dit Thuriot de la Rosière.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jacques-Alexis Thuriot de la Rosière|Jacques-Alexis Thuriot]]
| [[Marne (department)|Marne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain#Decline and fall|Crest]]
| [[File:André Dumont AN.jpg|80px]]
! [[André Dumont (politician)|André Dumont]]
| [[Somme (department)|Somme]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
|}

===8th–9th Committees (7 January {{ndash}} 5 March 1795)===
;Party breakdown
{|
|-
|
* [[Thermidorians]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|Thermidorians}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 140px;">7</div>
|-
|
* [[Miscellaneous right|Conservatives]] (Right)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|Miscellaneous right}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 20px;">1</div>
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.4em; text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=5 | 8th Committee<br/>{{small|(January{{ndash}}February)}}
! colspan=5 | 9th Committee<br/>{{small|(February{{ndash}}March)}}
|-
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
|-
| [[File:BREARD Jean-Jacques.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Bréard]]
| [[Charente-Maritime|Charente-Inférieure]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:André Dumont AN.jpg|80px]]
! [[André Dumont (politician)|André Dumont]]
| [[Somme (department)|Somme]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:AduC 277 Cambacères (J.J.R., 1753-1824).JPG|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès]]
| [[Hérault]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Portrait Lazare Carnot.jpg|80px]]
! [[Lazare Carnot]]
| [[Pas-de-Calais]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| colspan=5 {{no2|Vacant}}
| [[File:Lemonnier - Antoine-François de Fourcroy.jpg|80px]]
! [[Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy|Antoine François de Fourcroy]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 182 Guyton de Morveau (L.B., baron, 1737-1816).JPG|80px]]
! [[Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau]]
| [[Côte-d'Or]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| 
! [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Matthieu|Jean-Baptiste Matthieu]]
| [[Oise]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
|-
| [[File:Jean_Pelet_de_la_Lozère_(1759-1842).jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean Pelet]]
| [[Lozère]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Miscellaneous right}}" |
| [[Miscellaneous right|Conservative]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Prieur de la Marne IMG 2320.JPG|80px]]
! [[Pierre Louis Prieur]]
| [[Marne (department)|Marne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Mountain}}" |
| [[The Mountain]]
| [[File:Merlin de Douai by Hilaire Ledru 1812.jpg|80px]]
! [[Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai|Philippe-Antoine Merlin]]
| [[Nord (French department)|Nord]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
|}

===10th–11th Committees (5 March {{ndash}} 5 May 1795)===
;Party breakdown
{|
|-
|
* [[Thermidorians]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|Thermidorians}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 100px;">5</div>
|-
|
* [[Miscellaneous right|Conservatives]] (Right)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|Miscellaneous right}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 20px;">1</div>
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.4em; text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=5 | 10th Committee<br/>{{small|(March{{ndash}}April)}}
! colspan=5 | 11th Committee<br/>{{small|(April{{ndash}}May)}}
|-
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
|-
| [[File:BREARD Jean-Jacques.jpg|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Bréard]]
| [[Charente-Maritime|Charente-Inférieure]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2}} Renewed
|-
| [[File:André Dumont AN.jpg|80px]]
! [[André Dumont (politician)|André Dumont]]
| [[Somme (department)|Somme]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| 
! [[Denis Toussaint Lesage]]
| [[Eure-et-Loir]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 277 Cambacères (J.J.R., 1753-1824).JPG|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès]]
| [[Hérault]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2|Renewed}}
|-
| [[File:Lemonnier - Antoine-François de Fourcroy.jpg|80px]]
! [[Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy|Antoine François de Fourcroy]]
| [[Seine (department)|Seine]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2}} Renewed
|-
| 
! [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Matthieu|Jean-Baptiste Matthieu]]
| [[Oise]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2}} Renewed
|-
| [[File:Merlin de Douai by Hilaire Ledru 1812.jpg|80px]]
! [[Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai|Philippe-Antoine Merlin]]
| [[Nord (French department)|Nord]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
| colspan=5 {{yes2}} Renewed
|-
| colspan=5 {{no2|Vacant}}
| [[File:Jacques-Antoine Creuzé-Latouche (1749-1800).jpg|80px]]
! [[Jacques Antoine Creuzé-Latouche]]
| [[Vienne (department)|Vienne]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Miscellaneous right}}" |
| [[Miscellaneous right|Conservative]]
|}

===12th Committee (3 June {{ndash}} 25 October 1795)===
;Party breakdown
{|
|-
|
* [[Thermidorians]] (Left)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|Thermidorians}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 60px;">3</div>
|-
|
* [[Miscellaneous right|Conservatives]] (Right)
| <div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background: {{party color|Miscellaneous right}}; padding-right: 3px; text-align: right; font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold; color:white; width: 40px;">2</div>
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.4em; text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=2 | Member
! Department
! colspan=2 | Affiliation
|-
| [[File:AduC 277 Cambacères (J.J.R., 1753-1824).JPG|80px]]
! [[Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès]]
| [[Hérault]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
|-
| 
! [[Pierre Henry-Larivière]]
| [[Calvados (department)|Calvados]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Miscellaneous right}}" |
| [[Miscellaneous right|Conservative]]
|-
| [[File:AduC 204 La Réveillère-Lépaux (L.M., 1753-1824).JPG|80px]]
! [[Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux|Louis-Marie de La Révellière]]
| [[Maine-et-Loire]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Miscellaneous right}}" |
| [[Miscellaneous right|Conservative]]
|-
| 
! [[Denis Toussaint Lesage]]
| [[Eure-et-Loir]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
|-
| [[File:Merlin de Douai by Hilaire Ledru 1812.jpg|80px]]
! [[Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai|Philippe-Antoine Merlin]]
| [[Nord (French department)|Nord]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Thermidorians}}" |
| [[Thermidorians|Thermidorian]]
|}

== Use of the term during the Algerian War ==
During the [[May 1958 crisis in France]], an army junta under General [[Jacques Massu]] seized power in [[Algiers]] on the night of 13 May 1958 and [[General Salan]] assumed leadership of a body calling itself the Committee of Public Safety.

== See also ==
* [[Commissioners of the Committee of Public Safety]]
* [[Committee of General Security]]
* [[National Convention]]
* [[Historiography of the French Revolution]]
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== Bibliography ==

# Tackett, Timothy (2015). ''The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution''. Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p.&nbsp;121. {{isbn|9780674425163}}
# Tackett, Timothy (2015). ''The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution''. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. pp.&nbsp;121–122. {{isbn|9780674425163}}
# Tackett, Timothy (2015). ''The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution''. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p.&nbsp;245. {{isbn|9780674425163}}
# Tackett, Timothy (2015). ''The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution''. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p.&nbsp;313. {{isbn|9780674425163}}
# The Committee of Constitution (1793). ''The New Constitution of France''. London: London: Printed for J. Ridgway. p.&nbsp;3.
# The Committee of Constitution (1793). ''The New Constitution of France''. London: London: Printed for J. Ridgway. pp.&nbsp;4–7.
# Tackett, Timothy (2015). ''The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution''. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p.&nbsp;251. {{isbn|9780674425163}}
# Tackett, Timothy (2015). ''The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution''. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p.&nbsp;251. {{isbn|9780674425163}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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* {{cite book|author-link=François Furet|last=Furet|first=François|title=Revolutionary France, 1770–1880|location=Oxford|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|year=1992}}
* Linton, Marisa (2013). ''Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution''. Oxford University Press.
* {{cite book|author-link=Louis Madelin|last=Madelin|first=Louis|title=The French Revolution|url=https://archive.org/details/frenchrevolutio00madegoog|location=New York|publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons|year=1916}}
* {{cite journal|author-link=Hilary Mantel|last=Mantel|first=Hilary|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n15/hilary-mantel/he-roared|title=He Roared|journal=London Review of Books|date=6 August 2009|volume=3|issue=15|pages=3–6|access-date=16 January 2010}}
* {{cite journal|author-link=R. R. Palmer|last=Palmer|first=R. R.|title=Fifty Years of the Committee of Public Safety|journal=Journal of Modern History|date=September 1941|volume=13|issue=3|pages=375–397|doi=10.1086/236544|jstor=1871581|s2cid=143925240}}
* {{cite book|author-link=R. R. Palmer|last=Palmer|first=R. R.|title=Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution|location=Princeton|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1970|isbn=0-691-05119-4|author-mask=———}}
* {{cite book|author-link=Simon Schama|last=Schama|first=Simon|title=[[Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution]]|location=New York|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|year=1989}}
* {{cite book|author-link=Ruth Scurr|last=Scurr|first=Ruth|title=Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution|location=New York|publisher=Owl Books|year=2006}}
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