Enragés
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Name given in revolutionary Paris to radical activists such as Jacques Roux, Jean-François Varlet and Théophile Leclerc, who demanded price controls on necessities, requisition of grain, taxes on the rich and punishment of hoarders. They were not a formal organisation and scattered in autumn 1793 after arrests and withdrawals.
In depth
Jacques Roux had formulated a programme by late 1792, and on 25 June 1793 he presented an address to the Convention in the name of the Gravilliers section. They demanded social as well as civic and political equality, insisting that goods necessary to all be sold at a price accessible to all. Roux was arrested on 22 August and again on 5 September 1793 and took his own life in prison on 10 February 1794. Leclerc stopped his newspaper in September 1793 and left Paris. Montagnard leaders co-opted some Enragé proposals to win the same popular constituency, and the Hébertists succeeded them and absorbed part of their demands. Merging the two names into one organisation blurs the order of the purges of 1793 and 1794.
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- fr.wikipedia.org
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