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On the afternoon of the second, a coach of suspected royalists in Paris was being transported towards prison and surrounded. A fracas ensued and the defenders were slaughtered. This was the beginning of the massacres. Rumours of a plot to free the criminals in the overcrowded Parisian jails and the shortage of troops and weapons in the capital itself created a situation of high tension. [[Jean-Paul Marat]] called for the execution of the conspirators and a mob of ''sans-culottes'' arose to follow his lead. This was the beginning of the [[Reign of Terror]] under [[Maximilien de Robespierre]] and in the five days following 2 September between 1100 and 1400 of 2600 prisoners were killed.
On the afternoon of the second, a coach of suspected royalists in Paris was being transported towards prison and surrounded. A fracas ensued and the defenders were slaughtered. This was the beginning of the massacres. Rumours of a plot to free the criminals in the overcrowded Parisian jails and the shortage of troops and weapons in the capital itself created a situation of high tension. [[Jean-Paul Marat]] called for the execution of the conspirators and a mob of ''sans-culottes'' arose to follow his lead. This was the beginning of the [[Reign of Terror]] under [[Maximilien de Robespierre]] and in the five days following 2 September between 1100 and 1400 of 2600 prisoners were killed.
==Legacy==
The left-wing French philosopher [[Michel Foucault]], during a debate with Maoists, advocated for the concept of popular justice over any use of courts, even Socialist people's courts, and cited the September Massacres as an example of popular justice being enacted.
[[Category:French Revolution]]
[[Category:French Revolution]]