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September Massacre

Sep·tem·ber Mas·sa·cre


noun 
Definition:
 
massacre of prisoners in Paris 1792: the massacre of hundreds of prisoners by mobs in Paris in September 1792, during the French Revolution. The killings were caused by fears of a counterrevolution by royalist prisoners, but most of those who were killed were ordinary criminals.

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