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- The 9 September massacres were two series of massacres of prisoners at Versailles on 9 September 1792 during the French Revolution. They occurred in the context of the September Massacres. Claude Fournier was accused of complicity in them.
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1,100–1,600. The September Massacres were a series of killings and summary executions of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, 2 September until Thursday, 6 September, during the French Revolution. Between 1,176 and 1,614 people [1] were killed by sans-culottes, fédérés, and guardsmen, with the support of gendarmes ...
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Sep 29, 2022 · The September Massacres were when mobs of citizens of Paris went to the city's prisons and killed 1,100-1,400 prisoners between 2-7 September 1792 during the French Revolution. Many victims were political prisoners, either priests or people suspected of royalist or counter-revolutionary sympathies.
Paris. Context: French Revolution. September Massacres, mass killing of prisoners that took place in Paris from September 2 to September 6 in 1792—a major event of what is sometimes called the “First Terror” of the French Revolution. The massacres were an expression of the collective mentality in Paris in the days after the overthrow of ...
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The September Massacres were a series of murderous riots in Paris in the first week of September 1792. Driven to panic by fears of a Prussian invasion, Parisians stormed the city's prisons and butchered hundreds of inmates for being potential "enemies of the revolution".
The 9 September massacres were two series of massacres of prisoners at Versailles on 9 September 1792 during the French Revolution. They occurred in the context of the September Massacres. Claude Fournier was accused of complicity in them.
1,100–1,600. The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, September 2 until Thursday, September 6, during the French Revolution. Between 1,176 and 1,614 people were killed by fédérés, guardsmen, and sans-culottes, with the support of gendarmes responsible for guarding the ...
Timeline. 2 Sep 1792 - 7 Sep 1792. Between 1,100-1,400 prisoners, or half of Paris ' total prison population, are killed in the September Massacres . Explore the timline of September Massacres.