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,
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