Correct, the most casualties of the Reign of Terror occurred in the Vendée, though most of those were civilian peasants. And even the counter-revolutionaries had been provoked by Paris instituting a draft. They had monarchist/Catholic sentiments, but were willing to sit quiet until sufficiently harassed.
However, the comment in the OP was about guillotines specifically. The Vendée was a bloody civil war of pike, musket, and bayonet, not the guillotine. Some of the other most famous atrocities, like the September massacres or the drownings and cannon executions in the regions were likewise done more haphazardly.
The guillotine was used for regular people too (including common criminals), but being a revolutionary with the wrong politics was the swiftest path to it, rather than being rich or noble.
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Correct, the most casualties of the Reign of Terror occurred in the Vendée, though most of those were civilian peasants. And even the counter-revolutionaries had been provoked by Paris instituting a draft. They had monarchist/Catholic sentiments, but were willing to sit quiet until sufficiently harassed.
However, the comment in the OP was about guillotines specifically. The Vendée was a bloody civil war of pike, musket, and bayonet, not the guillotine. Some of the other most famous atrocities, like the September massacres or the drownings and cannon executions in the regions were likewise done more haphazardly.
The guillotine was used for regular people too (including common criminals), but being a revolutionary with the wrong politics was the swiftest path to it, rather than being rich or noble.
That's true, but what they said is true if you look only at Paris IIRC