What is the history behind the Reign of Terror or simply the Terror? The time period was from Sept. 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794. The Terror took place in France during the revolution, when democratic reform turned into executions by guillotine. The former ruling royals King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette met their death via Madame Guillotine in 1793. “Let them eat cake!” words alleged to have left the lips of Marie Antoinette upon being told that starving French peasants lacked bread to eat has never been proven. Maxime de la Rocheterie wrote of her: ‘She was not a guilty woman, neither was she a saint; she was an…