A robust brand of Jacobinism developed in Perpignan in the besieged atmosphere and nurtured by the arrival of radicals with experience of the political clubs across the Midi. The immediate Spanish threat to Perpignan was over, but measures of Terror were activated against suspected enemies of the people. As the Spanish retreated it became clear that the administration of laws of the Revolution had been neglected in the countryside and in some communities been deliberately ignored. The war was proving again to be a wake-up call for those who claimed that all was well in Pyrénées-Orientales before the invasion. Revolutionary justice was dispensed to improve discipline in the army. Officer cadres were purged of those with questionable republican credentials. There was zero tolerance of collusion with the enemy at any level in the Army. Draft evasion and desertion were also endemic in the army. The imposition of revolutionary measures on civilian society faltered as many people had fled before the arrival of the liberating forces. Civilians swept along by events, faced the death penalty for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. At its most extreme moment, the regime of Terror ordered the abolition of religious worship.