# Committee of Public Safety established (1793)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1793-committee-of-public-safety-established
Location: Paris

The Convention created a powerful executive committee to direct war and emergency government. Within the broader French Revolution period, The Revolution dismantled legal privilege and absolute monarchy, declared new rights and created a republic. War, popular mobilization, civil conflict and political terror repeatedly transformed the revolutionary state. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is National Convention (Collective head of the French Republic). Committee of Public Safety established is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Committee of Public Safety established is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France.

Ruler at the time: [National Convention](https://history-france.com/rulers/national-convention)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — Committee of Public Safety established](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Committee+of+Public+Safety+established&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Committee of Public Safety established](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Committee+of+Public+Safety+established)
- [Vie-publique — French institutions and history](https://www.vie-publique.fr/)