the white Terror in 1795 marked a bloody chapter in French history this period saw a surge of violence against those linked to the reign of terror including followers of robespier and morat and jacoban club members driven by vendettas for the losses suffered during the Great Terror and opposition to Jacobin policies a mix of grieving families monarchists jiranan supporters and anti-jacobin factions Unleashed a wave of decentralized attacks unlike the methodically orchestrated great Terror the white Terror sprawled across France as a tumult of local detas without a unified command notably groups like The Companions of juu in Lyon and the companions of the Sun in provance did exhibit some level of organization in their counterrevolutionary efforts