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The Fall from Grace of Robespierre and the Committee of Public

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The fall from grace of Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety came about when Robespierre


A) ordered the execution of hundreds of Catholic priests in Lyon in 1794.
B) began to order the execution of members of the Convention itself.
C) was accused of enticing the British to stage an invasion of Brittany so as to whip up republican sentiment in exchange for French territory in the West Indies.
D) inaugurated the Cult of the Supreme Being, which many Catholics viewed as a brazen and blasphemous attempt to replace Christianity.

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