September Massacres | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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September Massacres


00:01:02 1 Background
00:03:35 2 Invasion by the Duke of Brunswick
00:04:57 3 Reports of massacres
00:07:34 4 Numbers
00:09:19 5 Killings outside Paris
00:10:09 6 Official role
00:12:58 7 Debate in the Convention
00:13:56 8 Martyrs
00:14:31 9 See also
00:14:47 10 Notes and citations
00:14:56 10.1 Bibliography
00:15:32 11 Further reading
00:16:24 11.1 Fictional accounts
00:16:45 12 External links



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The September Massacres were a wave of killings in Paris and other cities from 2–7 September 1792, during the French Revolution. There was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed and join them. Radicals called for preemptive action. The action was undertaken by mobs of National Guardsmen and some fédérés; it was tolerated by the city government, the Paris Commune, which called on other cities to follow suit. By 6 September, half the prison population of Paris had been summarily executed: some 1300 to 1400 prisoners. Of these, 233 were nonjuring Catholic priests who refused to submit to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. However, the great majority of those killed were common criminals.  The massacres were repeated in many other French cities.No one was prosecuted for the killings, but the political repercussions first injured the Girondists (who seemed too moderate) and later the Jacobins (who seemed too bloodthirsty).