Jacques Roux
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Jacques Roux (1752-1794) was the leader of the Enragés faction in time of the French Revolution. He, between the first priests, accepted the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. His demands on price and tax reglementation increased his popular support, consequently his political influence, becoming one of the members of Paris Commune of 1792. He took a major role in Paris uprising of June 2 1793, which renversed the Girondin government. He continued to speak loud, in Convention from June 25, against "commercial aristocracy" considered to be worse than nobility and clergy. In the political inferno of Montagnarde Convention, even his former insurrectional ally, Jacques Hébert, abandoned him. The montagnards start a defamatory campagne, arresting him under the Law of Suspects, in September 1793. Roux preferred the suicide to the trial on the Revolutionary Tribunal.fr:Jacques Roux