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"The Committee of Public Safety (CPS) formed by the National Convention was one of many committees, but i became the driving force and war cabinet of the French Revolution. It stopped invasion and directed the bloodiest phase of the Reign of Terror. . . . Factions were purged and condemned, including the Girondins, the Hebertists, and the Dantonists, until Robespierre's Jacobins reigned supreme. However, in July 1794, Jacobins organized by Fouche and Tallien, fearing an increasingly paranoid Robespierre, staged a palace coup. Robespierre and his faction were guillotined, and the Reign of Terror was over. Soon after, the CPS was dissolved." [1001 Days]