september- sans culottes

Question 1

10 august 1792

Answer 1

sans culottes march to the tulleries
20,000 sans culottes 2,000 federes vs national guard

the king wass seeking santuary, defended by national guard and swiss guards (2-3k of them)

a two hour battle during which the palace was set of fire and nearly 1,000 sans culottes killed

the majority of the swiss guard and gentlemen at arms were massacres

Question 2

outcome of the 10th august journee

Answer 2

paris commune removed the king to the temple prison, but instead of deposing him merely declared him ‘temporarily suspended)

it decreed to end the distinction between active and passive citizens and establish a new elected convention

17 august a special tribunal was set up to persecute traitors

26 august refractory priests given 2 weeks to leave the country

compensation to former seigneurs was cancelled (though promised by the AD)

Question 3

september massacres cause

Answer 3

25 august news had reached paris that longwy had fallen and on the 1st september verdun was under siege

suggested to the assembly that the duke of brunswick would each paris in 2w

Question 4

september massacres

Answer 4

proximity of enemies, rumours of aristocratic plots and fear of traitors jn paris who might kill rhe families of patriots off at war contributed to the culture of fear

1500 parisian goals were massacred jn an orgy of blood letting

first attack led by the federes on 2 sept on refractory priests in prisons, it then spread to political prisoners and ordinary criminals

encouraged h the commune and political agitators like marat ‘l ami du pupele’

Question 5

outcome of sept massacres

Answer 5

fears abroad and rhe danger of revolution was confirmed

split in assembly, girodins blamed jacobins

popularity of radical leaders like danton and robespierre, weakness of the authorities

formation of the new convention 20th september with girodins, montagnards/jacobin and la plain