Jacques Roux

Jacques Roux (* August 21 1752 in Pranzac, † February 10, 1794 in Bicêtre ) was a French priest and revolutionary.

Roux was a member of the Jacobins and founded in 1792 the Enragés, a radical left-wing faction of the Jacobins, the objectives of the political equality went out: should Through persecution of speculators and sliders, closure of the stock market and the introduction of a controlled economy and the expropriation of the land an economic equality of the population be achieved to overcome the urban poor. In May 1793 Roux took part in the uprising of the sans-culottes.

Roux came with his radical goals in programmatic Maximilien de Robespierre opposed to that eventually had him arrested as a troublemaker in connection with the September motion on September 5, 1793. After he was sentenced to death, he committed suicide on February 10, 1794 suicide.

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