Terror And Its DiscontentsA timely exploration of the political uses of language and rhetoric Camille Desmoulins, a journalist writing under the Montagnard regime of 1793 94, remarked that Frances government had replaced the language of democracy with the cold poison of fear, which paralyzed thought in the bottom of peoples souls, and prevented it from pouring forth at the tribunal, or in writing. How this happened, how the Reign of Terror reached even into the realms of