Reign of Terror June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of which 2,639 were in Paris. There was a sense of emergency among leading politicians in France in the summer of 1793 between the widespread civil war and counter-revolution. Bertrand Barère exclaimed on 5 September 1793 in the Convention: "Let's make terror the order of the day!" They were determined to avoid street violence such as the September Massacres of 1792 by taking violence into their own hands as an instrument of government. Robespierre in February 1794 in a speech explained the necessity of
Reign of Terror (Sleigh Bells album) ends up being a fatiguing reminder of how remarkable a feat "Treats" was. Sleigh Bells may have topped themselves here, but it's a case of more being less." Dan Weiss of "Paste" noted that the album lacked the hip-hop element their debut had that gave those songs energy along with the metal elements, concluding that ""Reign of Terror" plays like a band with original ideas who got stuck in quicksand." Michael Hann of "The Guardian" felt that the album was compressed with its songs' production lacking energy, concluding that "they're not actually noisy per se, merely uninterested in restraint, which