September Massacres / 九月屠杀
The September Massacres / 九月屠杀 are the 1792 prison killings that 125. 马拉之死：卑鄙的暗杀，或正义的处决？ treats as a central reason [[CharlotteCorday|Charlotte Corday]] decided [[JeanPaulMarat|Marat]] had to die. The episode describes the massacre as far bloodier than the storming of the Bastille and links it to Parisian fear that enemy forces would free prisoners and turn them into internal enemies.
The source explicitly names Marat as one of the massacre’s major encouragers. That claim is what moves the episode away from the saintly Marat of [[DeathOfMaratPainting|The Death of Marat]] and toward the moral problem of Political Assassination Ethics / 政治刺杀伦理.
The massacre also belongs to Revolutionary Terror Politics / 革命恐怖政治 because it shows how public fear, enemy lists, emergency logic, and revolutionary purity can make killing appear preventive, righteous, and popular at once.
Connections
- Jean-Paul Marat / 让-保罗·马拉 and Charlotte Corday / 夏洛特·科黛 - agitator and later assassin.
- French Revolution / 法国大革命, Jacobin Club / 雅各宾俱乐部, and Girondins / 吉伦特派 - political setting and factional consequence.
- Revolutionary Terror Politics / 革命恐怖政治 - terror mechanism shown by the massacre.
- Political Assassination Ethics / 政治刺杀伦理 - Corday’s later justification context.