The September Massacres were a of killings of Catholic prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday Sept 2 until Thursday Sept 6, during the French Revolution. Half the prison population of Paris, between 1,100 and 1,600 people, were murdered by fédérés, guardsmen, and sansculottes, with the support of gendarmes responsible for guarding the tribunals and prisons, the Cordeliers, the insurrectional commune, and the revolutionary sections of Paris.
