The Convention had therefore been elected by small minority of the population, but those who were the most determined. That explains the ambiguity of the word "popular" when it is applied to this period: "popular" the French Revolution was certainly not in the sense of participation by the people in public affairs. But if the word "popular" is taken to mean that revolutionary policy was formed under pressure from the sans-culotte movement and organized minorities, and received an egalitarian impetus from them, then yes, the Revolution had well and truly entered its "popular" age.（参见：Furet 1996，第115頁） Furet, François. The French Revolution: 1770–1814. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1996. ISBN 0-631-20299-4.
As opposed to the English Revolution, the French Revolution killed not only the king of France, but royalty itself. In this sense, even if the Conventionnels had only transformed into a national tragedy what the last century of absolutism had already marked out as inevitable, they had accomplished their aim: to strip royalty from the nation's future. By executing the king, they had severed France's last ties with her past, and made the rupture with the ancien régime complete.（参见：Furet 1996，第122頁） Furet, François. The French Revolution: 1770–1814. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1996. ISBN 0-631-20299-4.
It is just a legend that depicts rebels shot down by gunfire from Bonaparte stationed on the steps of the Église Saint-Roch church.（参见：Lefebvre 1964，第204頁和Hampson 1988，第247頁） Lefebvre, Georges. The Thermidorians & the Directory. New York: Random House. 1964. Hampson, Norman. A Social History of the French Revolution. Routledge: University of Toronto Press. 1988. ISBN 0-7100-6525-6.
