How many people died in the reign of terror?

Answer 1

Perhaps as few as 14,000 and perhaps that number should be double or even trebled. The rationale for such a data spread includes the very chaos of the times, the indifference to the numbers because they had become routine and the rewriting of history for ideological purposes.

Answer 2

Some 17,000 died by execution. At least an equal number if not many more died in prison of diseases of privation.

Answer 3

40,000 thousand died, hundreds were arrested.

Answer 4

The reign of terror was lead by Maximillian Robespierre. He lead the French people in a massacre of the aristocracy. All aristocrats were captured and executed at the guillotine.

Answer 5

Estimates reach as high as 40,000.