Today is the French National Holiday commemorating the taking of the Bastille . It was held for the first time on July 14, 1790 on the Champ de Mars in the city of Paris as a celebration of the first anniversary of the taking of the Bastille on Tuesday, July 14, 1789. Although the medieval fortress, known as the Bastille, only guarded seven prisoners, among whom was a madman who claimed to be Julius Caesar, and the guards were Swiss retirees, his fall into the hands of the Parisian revolutionaries symbolically marked the end of the Old Regime and the starting point of the Revolution French.
Field of Mars 1790
Louis XVI he saw how the new laws promulgated and the reforms undertaken were limiting his power, so he decided to flee France with his wife, Marie Antoinette , and his children to take shelter in the Holy Germanic Empire and, from there, reunite the loyal monarchists and regain power. On June 21, 1791, in the middle of the night, he left the Tuileries Palace (Paris) and broke the oath made to the French people. Everything was going according to plan but they had to stop to refuel (excuse me, change the horses) in Varennes , just 30 km from the border with the Germanic Empire. The royal family got off the carts to rest and although they were dressed up, the innkeeper recognized the monarch and gave the warning.
How could I not recognize it! All the coins of France bore the effigy of him.
The royal family was returned to Paris, placed under surveillance and two years later they were guillotined (Louis XVI on January 21, 1793 and Marie Antoinette on October 16, 1793)
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