Look for the distinctive male Hazelnut flowers, called catkins, which look like 2-inch to 3-inch long yellow or brown growths at the end of the tree branches. The male flowers grow in clusters of two to three and typically form in the winter months.
Committee of Public Safety. Executive committee established by National Convention that was supposed to supervise the elimination of the enemies of the revolution, under the leadership of Robespierre. Developed a relationship with the sans-culotte of Paris that mostly just touched the surface.
Robespierre was never the head of the government, nor the only terrorist: he was one man on the Committee â albeit its most high-profile member. Other members of the Committee, together with members of the Committee of General Security (responsible for the police, prisons and most of the arrests), were as much responsible for the running of the Terror as Robespierre.