According to
Olivier Bernier, the rationale for the developing massacre of early September was simply a pretext invented by men eager to kill those who disagreed with them. He is, of course, referring to the
September Massacres of the
French Revolution and why they occurred. Lasting for 5 bloody days, the massacres began on the 2nd of September 1792 and ended on the 7th.
Indeed Bernier's reason is just one of many. Historian
Christopher Hibbert blames the massacres mainly on the fear of counter revolution within the walls of Paris. He explains that the French felt they needed to defend Paris from the rebels and traitors that were the counterrevolutionaries, specifically the clergy and nobility, as they were convinced that the clergy were too favorable of the king and his ways and that the nobles had too much power in their officer ranks.
During August of 1792, revolutionary furor was growing, and France was to be found in an unstable state a
