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The Committee of Public Safety ( French: Comité de Salut Public), set up by the National Convention on April 6, 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror ( 1793 - 1794) of the French Revolution.

Under war conditions and with national survival seemingly at stake, the Jacobins under Robespierre centralised denunciations, trials, and executions under the supervision of this committee of twelve members.

The Committee ceased meeting in 1795.

1 Members of the committee

• Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac - Earlier a Girondist, later a Bonapartist, drew up the 9 Thermidor report outlawing Robespierre.
• Jacques Nicolas Billaud-VarenneJacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne ( April 23, 1756 June 3, 1819) was a French revolutionary. The son of an avocat at the parlement of Paris, his upbringing was haphazard. At nineteen he became an Oratorian, but never took vows, and busied himself with liter, an HebertistJacques-Rene Hebert ( November 15, 1757 March 24, 1794) was editor of the extreme radical newspaper Le Pere Duchesne during the French Revolution. His followers are generally referred to in English as the "Hebertists". He himself is sometimes called Pere
• Jean Jacques Régis de CambacérèsJean-Jacques-Regis de Cambaceres Duke of Parma, ( 18 October 1753 8 March 1824), French lawyer and statesman, is best remembered as the author of the Code Napoleon, which still forms the basis of French law. Cambaceres was homosexual, and is widely, but n was a member only after 9 Thermidor
• Pierre Joseph CambonPierre Joseph Cambon ( 1756- 1820) was a French statesman. He was the son of a wealthy cotton merchant at Montpellier. In 1785 his father retired, leaving Pierre and his two brothers to run the business, but in 1788 Pierre went into politics, and was sent
• Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot - physicist
• Jean Marie Collot d'HerboisJean Marie Collot d'Herbois ( 1750 1796) was an actor and French revolutionist. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. Life Born in Paris and an actor by profession, after figuring for some years at the principal pro, an HebertistJacques-Rene Hebert ( November 15, 1757 March 24, 1794) was editor of the extreme radical newspaper Le Pere Duchesne during the French Revolution. His followers are generally referred to in English as the "Hebertists". He himself is sometimes called Pere
• Georges CouthonGeorges August Couthon ( 1755 July 28, 1794) was a French revolutionary. He was born at Orcet, Clermont, a village in the Auvergne. He studied law, and qualified at Clermont in 1785. Noted for his integrity, gentle-heartedness and charitable disposition,
• Georges Danton
• Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles
• Robert Lindet
• Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, also mayor of Paris
• Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois (a.k.a. Prieur de la Côte-d'Or)
• Pierre Louis Prieur (a.k.a. Prieur de la Marne)
• Maximilien Robespierre, a Montagnard
• Jean Bon Saint-André
• Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, a Montagnard
• Jean Lambert Tallien