Anatomy of a massacre - Gender, power, and punishment in revolutionary Paris

This article describes the massacre of 35 women in the Paris Hospital de la Salpetriere in September 1792. The killing of the women in the city's larg est prison-hospital complex for women was a uniqne event in the French Revo lution's history because it was the only all-female institution targeted du ring the September Massacres. Using archival documents, the author explores what the violence against women in Salpetriere suggests about gender and p unishment at the dawn of modernity.