Ancient history

October days.

Since the French Revolution had taken a turn in the summer of 1789 that most people in the royal entourage had not expected, a first wave of court emigration took shape, helping to amplify the reflexes of fear of reprisals. From then on, an inextricable escalation in acts of subversion-repression began, leading to a state of social tension skillfully maintained by the partisans of an integral and not only constitutional revolution.
Thus , the pretext of a banquet which takes place in Versailles, and during which a regiment of pro-royalist soldiers would have, according to some, trod the tricolor cockade, is enough to put, once again, the fire to the powder.
On October 5, a large number of women went to Versailles to ask for bread and the return of the royal family to Paris. The next day, fearing a riot, the king gave in and, escorted by around 1,000 people, arrived in the afternoon of the 6th at the Tuileries. Immediately, the Assembly decides to follow the royal family:thus begins the Parisian era of the Revolution.


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