Then came the Reign of Terror, during which radicals in possession of the convention executed in large numbers counter-revolutionists and those suspected of sympathy with the monarchy.
Antoinette was one of the first victims of the revolutionary Terror, a dark period during which 17,000 nobles and counter-revolutionaries were indiscriminately killed.
These were counterrevolutionaries who came in trying to roll back the civil rights laws of the 1960s, and that was a stepping stone for them to be placed in positions of much greater power decades on.
And, of course, I'm sure that people find that to be a contentious description for you to describe the folks on the other side as counterrevolutionaries.