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Also known as Enrages

The Enragés (; ), commonly known as the Ultra-radicals (), were a small number of firebrands known for defending the lower class and expressing the demands of the radical sans-culottes during the French Revolution. They played an active role in the 31 May – 2 June 1793 Paris uprisings that forced the expulsion of the Girondins from the National Convention, allowing the Montagnards to assume full control. The Enragés gained their name for their angry rhetoric appealing to the National Convention to take more measures that would benefit the poor. Jacques Roux, Jean-François Varlet, Jean Théophil

Key facts

Political party.name
Enraged Ones
Political party.native_name
Enragés
Political party.leader1_title
Leaders
Political party.leader1_name
Jacques RouxThéophile LeclercJean VarletClaire Lacombe
Political party.split
Jacobin Club
Political party.ideology
Direct democracyProto-socialismRepublicanismUltra-radicalismPopulismProto-communism
Political party.position
Far-left
Political party.colours
Red
Political party.country
France

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • Primary demands
  • Formation
  • Women in the Enragés
  • Key leaders
  • Jacques Roux
  • Jean Varlet
  • Théophile Leclerc
  • Claire Lacombe
  • Other groups
  • References
  • Further reading

The Enragés (; ), commonly known as the Ultra-radicals (), were a small number of firebrands known for defending the lower class and expressing the demands of the radical sans-culottes during the French Revolution. They played an active role in the 31 May – 2 June 1793 Paris uprisings that forced the expulsion of the Girondins from the National Convention, allowing the Montagnards to assume full control. The Enragés gained their name for their angry rhetoric appealing to the National Convention to take more measures that would benefit the poor. Jacques Roux, Jean-François Varlet, Jean Théophile Victor Leclerc and Claire Lacombe, the primary leaders of the Enragés, were strident critics of the National Convention for failing to carry out the promises of the French Revolution.

The Enragés were not a unified party, but rather a set of individuals who worked for their own objectives, and evidence of cooperation between them is inconclusive. The leaders did not view themselves as part of a cohesive movement, with Roux even calling for Varlet's arrest at one point. The notion of the Enragés as a cohesive group was perpetuated by the Jacobins, as they lumped their critics to the left into one group.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Enragés” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.