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 prompted a killing spree, generated by tales of atrocities by Royalist forces, throughout the prisons. Every royalist appeared a menace and trials frequently became brief, it was a series of events unopposed by the then Minister of Justice, [[Danton]]. | 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 prompted a killing spree, generated by tales of atrocities by Royalist forces, throughout the prisons. Every royalist appeared a menace and trials frequently became brief, it was a series of events unopposed by the then Minister of Justice, [[Danton]]. |