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The Law of 22 Prairial: Introduction

On 20 prairial Year II (June 8, 1794), Maximilien Robespierre, president of the National Convention at the time and dominating figure on the Committee of Public Safety (CPS), stood atop an artificial mountain in the Champs de Mars and addressed the crowd assembled to celebrate the Festival of the Supreme Being. "French republicans," he intoned, "it is your duty to purify the earth that [the tyrants] have soiled, and to recall justice whom they banished from here."¹ The lawyer from Arras had not forgotten his classical references, although this allusion to Virgil's fourth Eclogue would have been missed by few:...