IN A CONTEXT OF WAR, LIKELY INVASION AND PROVINCIAL REVOLT, THE STREET TERMINATES THE MONARCHY
During the Revolution's key period the "sans-culottes"* are in control:
(August 10, 1792-July 27, 1794)
* "Without breeches:" wide trousers instead of knee breeches and silk stockings, that is, common people
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When a mob storms the Tuileries palace, Marie-Antoinette faces it from behind a table and Louis XVI drinks to the health of the people while wearing the phrygien cap.
(On June 20, 1792)
- Royalist images
Nineteenth-century painting, probably by Thomas Falcon Marshall / Internet, no source named
The Demonstration of June 20, 1792 at the Tuileries by Jean-Baptiste Vérité after an unknown artist, 1796 / zoom
Louis holds a soldier's hand over his heart to show that he is unafraid.
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The commander of the royalist army threatens "ever-memorable vengeance" if the Tuileries are attacked again or the royals "suffer even the slightest violence."
(The "Brunswick Manifesto," July 25 1792)
The sans-culottes find this proof that the king and queen are traitors: Three weeks later, they seize the Tuileries palace, massacring the Swiss guards.
(On August 10, 1792)
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Storming the Tuileries on August 10, 1792 by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux, 1793 / zoom |
The royals are imprisoned as crowds jeer:
Traditional monarchy is dead.
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