Robespierre and his merry band of murderers brought on the era of total politicization. No aspect of human life was beyond the touch of politics after the French Revolution. The state was granted a right to destroy institutions and traditions which protected the family and the individual from the violence of the state. Throughout the world, the French Revolution became an inspiration for men and women to rationalize their actions in terms of their purported ends. In the region of western France called the Vend e, a royalist uprising resulted in the sort of cleansing that would have made Slobodan Milosevic proud.
Estimates range from the high tens of thousands to over a half million people.
Many were killed by means of forced drowning. Barges full of undesirables were floated into the Loire and sunk. As I say, there's no reason to dawdle here. The French Revolution gave us so many things we can despise today, why fight for the victims long since buried or drowned. Happy Bastille Day.