10th of August (French Revolution)

On August 10, 1792, during the French Revolution, a mob – with the backing of a new municipal government of Paris that came to be known as the "insurrectionary" Paris Commune – besieged the Tuileries palace. King Louis XVI and the royal family took shelter with the Legislative Assembly. This proved to be the effective end of the French Monarchy (until it was restored in 1814). The formal end of the monarchy occurred six weeks later, as one of the first acts of business of the new Convention.

Insurrectionism

The ruling spirit of this new revolution was Danton, a barrister only thirty-two years old, who had not sat in either Assembly, although he had been the leader of the Cordeliers, an advanced republican club, and had a strong hold on the common people of Paris. Danton and his friends and allies – Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Fabre d'Églantine, Marat, etc. – were assisted in their work by the fear of invasion.

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Danton - Cordeliers - Robespierre - Camille Desmoulins - Fabre d'Églantine - Marat

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Volunteers and fédérés were constantly arriving in Paris, and, although most went on to join the army, the Jacobins enlisted those who were suitable for their purpose, especially some 500 whom Barbaroux, a Girondin, had summoned from Marseilles. François Mignet writes, "Their enterprise had been projected and suspended several times. On the

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Fédéré - Jacobin - Barbaroux - Marseilles - François Mignet

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26th of July, an insurrection was to break out; but it was badly

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contrived, and Pétion prevented it. When the federates from Marseilles arrived, on their way to the camp at Soissons, the faubourgs were to meet them, and then repair, unexpectedly, to the château. This insurrection also failed." http://www.outfo.org/literature/pg/etext06/8hfrr10.txt It was resolved to strike the decisive blow on August 10.

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Soissons - August 10

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The political clubs openly discussed the dethronement of the king, and on August 3 Pétion spoke to the Assembly, soliciting an end to the monarchy in the name of the commune and of the sections. On August 8, the accusation of Lafayette was discussed; he was acquitted; but (again quoting Mignet), "all who had voted for him were hissed, pursued, and ill treated by the people at the breaking up of the sitting". http://www.outfo.org/literature/pg/etext06/8hfrr10.txt This harassment extended to death threats and invasions of their homes. Hector de Joly, the minister of justice wrote to the president of the Assembly, "I have denounced these attacks in the criminal court; but law is powerless; and I am impelled by honour and probity to inform you, that without the promptest assistance of the legislative body, the government can no longer be responsible." http://www.outfo.org/literature/pg/etext06/8hfrr10.txt

Related Topics:
August 3 - Commune - August 8 - Hector de Joly

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