# White Terror (1795)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1795-white-terror
Location: Southern France

Royalist and anti-Jacobin violence targeted former revolutionaries. 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). White Terror mattered because collective action and political conflict altered the relationship between society and governing authority. 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
White Terror mattered because collective action and political conflict altered the relationship between society and governing authority.

Ruler at the time: [French Directory](https://history-france.com/rulers/french-directory)

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