... an official assembly, recorded and reported on. Also being in Paris at this time Roux may have been in an excellent position to comment upon the problems faced by the people at ground level, or at least within his own circle of influence. Roux would therefore be aware of the people's views towards the revolution, Convention and the liberty they believed in and fought for. Points raised in his speech suggest this liberty had not been achieved when he mentions that liberty was a vain phantom (Jacques Roux, Scripta et Acta). Roux also wittingly portrays concern for the welfare of the common people, the Sans-Culottes, small shopkeepers, artisans and wage earners. While his speech is not stating demands for his own promotion or that of his radical group, but for the people in general while asking hard questions of the Convention. However Roux wittingly chastises then applauds the actions of ...

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