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The
Law of 14 Frimaire
passed on 4 December 1793, during the
French Revolution
, in which power became centralized and consolidated under the
Committee of Public Safety
. It stopped representatives on-mission from taking 'action' without the authority of the committee. The Law of 14 Frimaire established the
Bulletin des lois
which existed until 1929 as the venue in which French laws were formally published.
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Counterfeiting the
Bulletin des Lois
was punishable by death.
[1]
The law settled the competence of the two committees.
Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
proposed the law as a means to rigorously centralize power in the
National Convention
and its Committee of Public Safety.
[1]
This was an attempt to bring order to the
Reign of Terror
and make the representatives more accountable.
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