During the Reign of Terror they also tried to install Paganism as the state religion after outlawing other faiths, they tried to dictate how people talked to each other and what they wore.
In other words, classic liberals chopping off heads.
They also made buying and selling with gold or silver coins a guillotine offense. You had to accept their worthless paper, or off with your head. They even ran “sting” operations to catch people at it.
Bingo!