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If I remember correctly, the other numerically significant group to be massacred by mobs during the September Days were prostitutes.
Bernadette Filotas
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> [Martyrs of September] (blessed (d. 1792) This
> is a group of 191 martyrs massacred by the Parisian mob on September 2 and
> 3 in 1792. They had been imprisoned for refusing the oath to support the
> civil constitution of the clergy. They included three bishops, 124 secular
> priests, and miscellaneous religious. 95 of them were killed at the
> Carmelite church, 72 at the Vincentian seminary, and 21 at St. Germain des
> Pres.
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