Examine the role of the Paris Mob in the French Revolution.

Question Demands:

The key issue is an assessment of the role played by the Paris Mob in the French Revolution (1789).
The answer should discuss the contribution of the Mob to the radicalism, violence and extremism of the period.
Contribution of the Paris Mob.
NB: The mob has to be understood as composed of mainly the members of the 3rd Estate later on renamed to National Assembly. Also some members of the 2nd and 1st Estate would join in the struggle in the course of the revolution.

-The mob was responsible for the action that led to the execution of the monarch and the coming of the reign of terror.
-Their critical role at the start of the revolution was the storming of the Bastille and the adoption of the tricolour flag.
-By July 1789 the Mob and the Assembly were working together to stop a counter- revolution.
-Pressure from the Assembly and the Paris Mob forced Louis XVI back to Versailles and to accept the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
-The march of the Women was a result of the pressure whereby they demded  lower prices for bread.
-From October 1789 they dominated the revolution especially as the Mob could sit on the gallery of the Assembly.
-They were incensed by the attempted flight to Varennes in 1791.
-The flight also made France more Republican.
-The Paris Mob allied with the Jacobins and the Paris Commune and pushed for extreme democracy through violence.
-They were later controlled and commanded by the Jacobins and France was plunged into the Reign of Terror which ended in 1794 with the death of Robespierre and the establishment of the Directory.