During the French Reign of Terror, did the average person have to worry about getting sent to the guillotine?

by NigerianFootcrab
attilla_the_hun

Since the average person wasn't a noble or a priest, no. Plus, only around 17,000 people were executed in a population of about 25,000,000, so the chances of being executed for the average person was low.

Sources: http://www.britannica.com/event/Reign-of-Terror http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/abstract/population/population/c_nationalpopulation.html