Prisons of the Reign of Terror of the French Comedy, it duchess d' Orleans, etc. The most tested prisons were Luxembourg (315 executions 19,20, and 21 messidor then on Thermidor 4), Saint-Lazare (165 executions Thermidor 6,7 and 8), Bicêtre 76 executions 28 prairal, and 8 messidor, the Carmelite friars (49 executions on Thermidor 5). All the victims of the conspiracy of the prisons were buried in Picpus Cemetery. After the fall of Maximilien de Robespierre Thermidor 9 year II (July 21, 1794) the prisons were opened and the prisoners released. The terror falls with the Thermidorian Reaction: the responsibility for these crimes projected on the "Robespierrists".
Campaigns of 1794 in the French Revolutionary Wars Campaigns of 1794 in the French Revolutionary Wars The French Revolutionary Wars continued from 1793 with few immediate changes in the diplomatic situation as France fought the First coalition. On the Alpine frontier, there was little change, with the French invasion of Piedmont failing. On the Spanish border, the French under General Dugommier rallied from their defensive positions at Bayonne and Perpignan, driving the Spanish out of Roussillon and invading Catalonia. Dugommier was killed in the Battle of the Black Mountain in November. On the northern front in the Flanders Campaign, the Austrians and French both prepared offensives in Belgium,