Summary Of The Reign Of Terror. The reign of terror was a period of around a year in the french revolution during which roughly 30,000 people were executed for supposedly opposing the revolution. Stories and images of the reign of terror have come to dominate our perceptions of the french revolution.

The committee began to take action against federalist revolutionists. The reign was the result of conflict between two rival political bodies; The french revolution had begun four years earlier with the storming of the bastille.