General maximum
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The General Maximum was a law made during the course of the French Revolution which extended the powers of the Revolutionary Tribunals. It was created on September 9, 1793 and extended the Law of Suspects to most other areas of the evolutionary French economy.
[edit] History
The law of the general maximum is decreed, a system of price controls on essential goods and wage regulation. On 5th September 1793 the Sans-culottes invaded the Convention – This forced the Convention to pass the Law of the General Maximum on September 29.
The Terror reached its heights in 1794, when thousands were executed by decree of the Revolutionary Tribunal, many of them for breaking the Law of the Maximum. But the excitement and the terror could not last, and in July Robespierre himself was executed: there was a Reaction against the extremists, and the worst was over: in December the Law of the Maximum was repealed. People who sold goods such as food, drink, fuel, and clothing were fined and to be put on the list of suspects.
[edit] References
A History of Modern France, third edition (2006), by Jeremy Popkin
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