The Great Fear is the term historians use to describe
A) the fear that gripped most of France when the Committee of Public Safety adopted a campaign of terror, especially the use of the guillotine, as a way of crushing opposition.
B) the panic of peasants who suspected an aristocratic conspiracy when unemployment and crop failures drove numerous beggars and vagrants to wander the countryside.
C) the dismay that spread among aristocrats when Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were apprehended during their flight to Varennes and returned to Paris.
D) the panic that drove the sans-culottes to ever more radical measures when they suspected that monarchists were plotting to repress the Revolution.
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