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Group: Augsburg, Free Imperial City of
People: John Howard (prison reformer)
Topic: Western Art: 1816 to 1828

Paris sections—encouraged by the enragés Jacques Roux …

Years: 1793 - 1793
June

Paris sections—encouraged by the enragés Jacques Roux and Jacques Hébert—take over the Convention on June 2, 1793, calling for administrative and political purges, a low fixed price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans-culottes alone.

With the backing of the National Guard, they persuade the Convention to arrest twenty-nine Girondist leaders, including Jacques Pierre Brissot.