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The 15 pages that link to Law of 22 Prairial, each with the reason it gives.

• Reign of TerrorBroader topic: It intensified executions in the Terror’s final weeks.

• Maximilien RobespierreBroader topic: Robespierre supported the law, which accelerated executions during the Terror’s final phase.

• National ConventionBroader topic: The Convention enacted it during an escalation of judicial repression.

• Thermidorian ReactionCompared with: Its repeal soon after the coup reversed a central instrument of the Great Terror.

• Committee of Public SafetyRelated: Its enactment intensified the committee’s association with political repression.

• Louis Antoine de Saint-JustRelated: Saint-Just supported the Terror’s judicial machinery, though this law was chiefly associated with other committee members.

• Revolutionary TribunalBroader topic: It sharply accelerated trials and executions during the Terror.

• Bertrand BarèreRelated: Barère supported the emergency government during the period in which this law intensified judicial repression.

• Law of SuspectsRelated: It extended the Terror’s legal machinery from broad arrest to expedited conviction.

• JacobinsBroader topic: This measure intensified political repression during the Jacobin-led Terror.

• Jean-Lambert TallienRelated: Its expansion of the Terror intensified Convention deputies’ fear of becoming its next targets.

• Georges CouthonBroader topic: Couthon helped draft the law, which became a defining measure of the Terror’s final phase.

• Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-VarenneRelated: Billaud-Varenne supported the law, which intensified the Terror shortly before Thermidor.

• François HanriotRelated: Opposition to the law intensified the divisions that culminated in Hanriot’s final crisis.

• Jean-Marie Collot d'HerboisRelated: The law’s expansion of terror deepened conflicts within the Committee, including Collot’s political environment.