... encouraging growth of republican feeling. The sans-culottes had the force with which to seize power but they chose to persuade and intimidate the Convention, never to replace it. The sans-culottes had put the Jacobins in power, so a new Constitution which recognised many of their aspirations, was rushed through the Assembly in June 1793, enforcing and legitimising feelings of republicanism. By June 1791 Grain prices had rose by up to 50%. This resulted in riots and a wave of strikes by workers against the falling value of their wages (the assignats dropping in value). Crowds forced shopkeepers to reduce prices. The discontent of workers was used by popular societies to link economic protests to the political demand for a democratic republic. The growth of republican feeling was steadily being fuelled. The Kings Flight to Varennes and forcible return to Paris in June 1791 created an immense wave of antimonarchical feeling and ...

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