what is the September Massacre?
all i know is that it has to do with the French Revolution!
2007-01-15 06:28:18 · 6 answers · asked by Baby D 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The September Massacres were a wave of mob violence which took place in Paris in late summer 1792, during the French Revolution. By the time the mob fury was spent, half the prison population of Paris had been killed: some 1200 trapped prisoners. Sporadic violence, in particular against the Roman Catholic Church, would continue throughout France for nearly a decade to come.
2007-01-15 06:31:11 · answer #1 · answered by TexasChick 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to Olivier Bernier, the rationale for the developing massacre of early September was simply a pretext invented by men eager to kill those who disagreed with them. He is, of course, referring to the September Massacres of the French Revolution and why they occurred. Lasting for 5 bloody days, the massacres began on the 2nd of September 1792 and ended on the 7th. Indeed Bernier's reason is just one of many. Historian Christopher Hibbert blames the massacres mainly on the fear of counter revolution within the walls of Paris. He explains that the French felt they needed to defend Paris from the rebels and traitors that were the counterrevolutionaries, specifically the clergy and nobility, as they were convinced that the clergy were too favorable of the king and his ways and that the nobles had too much power in their officer ranks. During August of 1792, revolutionary furor was growing, and France was to be found in an unstable state
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2007-01-15 06:32:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry. What September Massacres? Some more specifics as to country and date would be nice.
2016-05-24 07:15:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
massacre of prisoners in Paris 1792: the massacre of hundreds of prisoners by mobs in Paris in September 1792, during the French Revolution. The killings were caused by fears of a counterrevolution by royalist prisoners, but most of those who were killed were ordinary criminals.
2007-01-15 06:31:22 · answer #4 · answered by ronaldo5plus3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here is a link that explains it from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Massacres
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2007-01-15 06:39:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a big ammsacre that happened in september
2007-01-15 06:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by chicantabonita94 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋