jul 17, 1791 - Champs de Mar Massacre

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30,000 gather at Champs de Mars to support a petition created by Cordeliers —> calling for the
dethronement of Louis XVI
supported by leading members of Jacobins + Cordeliers


Protests escalate, descend into violence
fuelled by belief that there were royalist spies (attempting to gather identities of the leaders of
the protest)

Martial law declared
CA pressures Paris Commune (Mayor Jean-Sylvain Bailly)
10,000 National Guard disperses crowd by force
60 dead
200 arrested
Aftermath: strong clampdown by CA — Tricolour Terror
martial law = civil liberties of Parisians suspended (principles of the revolution!)
freedom of press curtailed —>
Marat + Desmoulins go into hiding
political clubs and meetings are disrupted
Danton flees — fearing arrest
suppression of Cordeliers, republicans, radical press
Lafayetteʼs + Baillyʼs reputation greatly damaged
—> increasing gap between attitudes of those in CA & attitudes of popular societies & clubs of Paris
(sans-culottes)

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