L'Explosion de la Poudrière de Grenelle 1794 — La Catastrophe que Paris a Oublié

One thousand dead in a second. On August 31, 1794, the Grenelle gunpowder magazine exploded in the heart of Paris. The blast was felt for miles. Entire houses were blown apart. Bodies were thrown across the Seine. And no one spoke of it—because the Reign of Terror had just ended, Robespierre had just been guillotined, and Paris had other things on its mind than counting its dead. Accident or sabotage? Two centuries later, the question remains open.