The Convention and the Roles of Sans-Culottes
- Paris commune killed roughly 1,200 people in city jails, most counterrevolutionary criminals
- Convention met on September 21, 1792
- Second Revolution had been the work of Jacobins and of the sans-culottes
- The sans-culottes sought price control for overly expensive food items
- They were hostile towards aristocracy and advocates of small property owners
- Were against the monarch, republican, and suspicious of the government
- Jacobins were republicans that favored a representative government and unregulated economy
- December 1792: Louis XVI was put on trial and convicted of conspiring against the state
- Louis XVI was beheaded on January 21, 1793
- March 1793: aristocratic officers and priests commenced a royalist revolt in western France with the help of local support
