September movement

The September Movement was a bloodless Parisian popular uprising on September 4th and 5th, 1793 . The trigger was, against the background of increasing urban poverty and a general lack of bread, the news that Girondists and royalists had handed Toulon over to the English.

The common people then presented their demands on the morning of September 4th to the Commune , which then led the movement with Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette and the Mayor Jean-Nicolas Pache . With the exclamation “War on the tyrants! War against the aristocrats! The sections set out to occupy the convent.

The " Petition of the Citizens of Paris" called for the establishment of an internal revolutionary army, the formation of stand courts and a mobile guillotine . This pressure caused the Mountain Party, through Georges Danton , to have the main demands accepted before the Convention.

Although the September movement cannot be traced back to the Enragés , Jacques Roux was arrested as a troublemaker by Maximilien de Robespierre on September 5th with his radical demands .