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=== This entry is serving as a draft of additional paragraphs that will be added to the existing Wikipedia article on the Committee of Public Safety. These additional paragraphs be added into the article's Origins and Evolutions section and will consider the social factors in pre-revolutionary France and revolutionary France which led to the rise of the Committee of Public Safety during the First Republic phase of the French Revolution. ===

Social Conditions in Revolutionary France
The French Revolution radically changed French society. French citizens were empowered with self-govnerenace for the first time, and this radical shift to popular sovereignty resulted in a desire for socio-political change in the French nation. French citizens were split into rivaling political factions including; monarchists, republicans, liberals, and conservatives. These rivaling factions would fight for control in France and this conflict would result in several French governments rising and falling in the earl years of the revolution. French citizens of the Third Estate (Commoners) lived in political isolation during the absolutist reign of Louis XVI. The Third Estate of the French populous consisted of the majority of the French population.

During the early years of the French Revolution, the first government that would hold power was a Constitutional Monarchy created in 1789. The Constitutional Monarchy proved ineffective in controlling the population and was replaced by the First French Republic in 1792. The First French Republic would be administrated by several different governments until it was replaced by the French Directory in 1795.

Political radicalism would rise among the populous from the disrupted political situation and would lead to the desire among many French people for an authoritative government to administrate France and ensure political stability. The government that would take control of the First French Republic in 1793 would come to be known as the Committee of Public Safety.