War in the Vendée was not until the social unrest and the fear of The Terror (a period between 1793–94 where tens of thousands of people were beheaded by use of guillotine) combined with the external pressures from the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790) and the introduction of a levy of 300,000 on the whole of France, decreed by the National Convention in February 1793, that the region erupted. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy required all clerics to swear allegiance to it and, by extension, to the increasingly anti-clerical National Constituent Assembly. All but seven of the 160 bishops refused the oath,
The Reign of Terror (Doctor Who) 1987. An audio version of this serial was released on CD by BBC Audio in February 2006, with Ford providing linking narration and an interview. This was later included in "The Lost TV Episodes: Collection 1" box set in August 2010, alongside an additional CD with interviews and original camera scripts. The serial was released on VHS by BBC Video in November 2003, containing the four existing episodes of "The Reign of Terror" alongside unreleased episodes of "The Faceless Ones" and "The Web of Fear". 2 Entertain released the serial on DVD in January 2013, with animation of the missing