Explain why the Sans Coulottes had so much power by 1793

The second factor is the September massacres. While all the men in Paris had been sent to the front a rumour spread about the counter revolutionary suspects in Paris’s overcrowded prisons. This rumour was that they planned to escape and kill Paris’s populace. Danton the minister for justice at the time called for their execution and the Sans Culottes were only too happy to oblige. This gave the sans culottes a sense of more power as the government never made any move to stop these massacres going on even Danton who had only made the suggestion also made move to stop this anti revolutionary matter from happening. It gave the sans culottes a sense of being untouchable

My final factor is the overthrow of the Girondin ministers. The convention was surrounded by 80000 national guard and cannon. These guard refused to let the ministers out until they gave up the Girondin ministers and deputies. The deputies had to comply as this was the first time an elected body was held at gunpoint to do something. When the Girondin ministers and deputies had been arrested it left only the Montgnards and the plain (who had previously formed an understanding). With the Sans Culottes already exerting a lot of power on the Montgnards and with the opposition in the convention weakened if not gone altogether, this gave the Sans Culottes a large amount of power. It was down to their sheer size that the convention felt threatened by them, and rightly so as they had the numbers and the firepower to set up a revolutionary commune.