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3.24- The September Massacres

Revolutions

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The Insurrection and the Assassination of Dantan

After the insurrection, dantan himself was pretty much forward looking. But his sonculot friends out in the streets and their representatives an the paris sections in the insurrectionary commune were stuck looking backward. The whole insurrection was now being cast as a necessary response to some vaguely defined royalist conspiracy. So that meant the swiss guards left alive and a few other random army officers and court functionaries who had been taken into custody. And finally, there was one guy above all othe sanqu lot singled out for intense hatred, the marquis de lafayette,. A k a the butcher of the champ de mars. They wanted his head on a platter, and they

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