How did the September Massacres change the character of the French Revolution? How did they alter the course and trajectory of the revolutionary project? How did average Parisians react to the gruesome events? These are the questions explored in the...
Examine the defences of Marat we heard in the main episode. Specifically, it examines Historian Lefebvre’s claim that Marat’s encouragement of the departments to massacre their own prisoners had no effect. Secondly, it also refutes...
Who was to blame for the September Massacres of 1792? Were the deaths planned or spontaneous? How did various individuals, factions, and institutions respond to the killings, and did they seek to use the bloodshed for their own advantage? Before we...
Hear from John Moore’s Diary (2 September 1792) as he retells the horror of the September Massacres and the false rumours which inspired them.
Witness the fascinating trial of Saint-Méard during the September Massacres of 1792.
Slaughter erupts in Paris as the Prussian Army advances on the capital. Fuelled by a deadly mixture of panic and rumours, the people of Paris seek to eliminate the enemy within by murdering the city’s prisoners. The September Massacres of 1792...
The Scottish Physician John Moore was an eyewitness to the tumultuous events of August 1792. Here his account of the city’s hostile attitude towards priests, the public’s reception of the Commune’s mass arrests, and the ongoing...
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A fédéré’s account of the events on 10 August 1792.