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Storming of the Tuileries Palace on 10 August 1792 and the massacre of the Swiss Guard Meeting of the revolutionary National Convention in the Salle du Manège in August 1792 On 1 December 1783, the palace garden was the starting point of a major event in aviation history—the first manned flight in a hydrogen balloon, by Jacques Charles and ...
The insurrection of 10 August 1792 was a defining event of the French Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict with the French monarchy, stormed the Tuileries Palace. The conflict led France to abolish the monarchy and establish a republic.
On 14 July 1792, during the second anniversary of the Fête de la Fédération, the King left the Tuileries Palace at noon to go to the Champ de Mars, having in his carriage the Queen, the two children, Madame Élisabeth, and the Princess of Lamballe. The king's escort is composed of Swiss Guards and grenadiers from the National Guard.
The assault on the Tuileries on 10 August 1792.The defence in the palace became disorganised after Galiot Mandat de Grancey was shot. Antoine Jean Galiot Mandat (7 May 1731, in the outskirts of Paris – 10 August 1792, on the steps of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris), known as the Marquis de Mandat, was a French nobleman, general and politician.
On August 10, 1792, on the same day that the members of the more radical political clubs and the sans-culottes stormed the Tuileries Palace, they also took over the Hotel de Ville, expelling the elected government and an Insurrectionary Commune. New elections by secret ballot gave the insurrectionary Commune only a minority of the Council.
The two books of the poem are set in November 1792 and April 1793. In November 1792, recent events included the storming of the Tuileries Palace and the September Massacres, reflecting a newly violent anti-monarchist turn led by Maximilien Robespierre. Priests who had refused to support the Civil Constitution of the Clergy had been declared ...
The idea that Louis planned on fleeing the Tuileries palace began in early 1791 and was one of the causes of the Day of Daggers on 28 February 1791. [3] The escape event was not subtly planned, and enough suspicions were aroused in those working in the palace that the information trickled down to newspapers.
The Théâtre des Tuileries (French pronunciation: [teɑtʁ de tɥilʁi]) was a theatre in the former Tuileries Palace in Paris. It was also known as the Salle des Machines , because of its elaborate stage machinery , designed by the Italian theatre architects Gaspare Vigarani and his two sons, Carlo and Lodovico. [ 1 ]