No. The started with the aristocrats (though most of them ran away to Austria before mass murder even started), then they started killing other radicals like th

No. The started with the aristocrats (though most of them ran away to Austria before mass murder even started), then they started killing other radicals like the Girondins, mass exterminating peasants and too moderate Jacobins (and random people in general). Finally Robespierre and his ilk got their own heads chopped off. Then you had the Thermidorian reaction where conservative liberals were killing the more radical ones (it wasn’t as extreme as the res terror though). > seems a little disingenuous No.