The Law of 14 Frimaire passed on 4 December 1793, during the French Revolution, in which power became centralized and consolidated under the Committee of Public Safety. It stopped representatives on-mission from taking unaccountable, and sometimes despotic, 'action' without the authority of the committee. The Law of 14 Frimaire established the Bulletin des lois which existed until 1929 as the venue in which French laws were formally published. Counterfeiting the Bulletin des Lois was punishable by death.
Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne proposed the law as a means to rigorously centralize power in the National Convention and its Committee of Public Safety. This was an attempt to bring order to the Reign of Terror by making the representatives on-mission directly accountable to the Committee of Public Safety.
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Fenwick, Jill; Anderson, Judy (1 October 2005). Revolution: France. History Teachers' Association of Victoria. ISBN 9781875585588.