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| | E. Belfort Bax: Marat (Chap.6) |
 | | The September massacres were the work of a populace driven to a despairing frenzy by the combination of circumstances above enumerated. |
 | | September, 1792 –; 1,800 or at most 2,000 slain, all after some trial, however brief, by a populace in a burst of despairing rage; May, 1871, obscure prisoners of war maltreated and slaughtered daily in small numbers for a month, – this consummated in the moment of victory, by a carnage estimated officially at 15,000? |
 | | The occasion of the first skirmish was the sitting of September the 24th, in the debate preceding the passing of a law against inciters to assassination, when the “People’s Friend” was indirectly, but very unmistakably indicated; indeed, the law itself was really aimed at him. |
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