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This post is part of a series about genealogy in France. You can read the complete series HERE.

• The third phase began in the Spring of 1793.
• Austria, Prussia and Great Britain formed a Coalition, which generally speaking most rulers in Europe adhered to
• France lost Belgium and the Rhineland.
• Paris was threatened by invading forces.
• New Republican calendar introduced.
• Introduction of maximum Government control of prices,
• Confiscation of property from emigres
• Rich taxed
• National assistance available to the poor and disabled.
• Education available, free of cost.
• Reign of Terror began – many arrests of those opposing, approximately 300,000 people, with 17,000 given a sentence of death, some of which were executed without a trial.
• The Revolutionary government raised an army of around one million men.