Marked by the capture of the Tuileries and the massacre of its Swiss garrison , the day of August 10 essentially appears as the last phase of the monarchical revolution. Pressed by the people of Paris, the Legislative, in the face of a riot, which it fears it will not be able to curb, decides to suspend the king, to imprison him with his family in the Temple and to entrust the government to a Provisional Executive Council responsible for settle current affairs. It is also adopted, to elect by universal suffrage in the second degree, a National Convention to replace the Legislative:the fall of the throne is irremediably consummated.
Strengthened by its success, the Commune of Paris will, if not organize, at least endorse a series of massacres, the infamous September massacres, during which, during the first days of September 1792, small groups of "justiciers" in the pay of the populace indiscriminately murder more than a thousand suspects, men and women, in prisons and religious buildings.
Driven, it will be said, by the desire to make the Revolution irreversible and fear, for the men having to leave for the borders, to leave their families in a capital "gorged with aristocrats", these massacres lead to a definitive political split between the Girondins* and the Montagnard Septembriseurs. A few days later, while the French troops won the decisive victory at Valmy (September 20), the Legislative separated, taking with it the last possibilities of a constitutional compromise between the king and the Revolution.
but from the betrayal of Dumouriez, a committee of public safety was constituted of nine members, among whom Danton plays the essential role. There are notably Robert Lindet, Barère and Cambon. Elected in principle for one month, within the Convention, he will be renewed in May and June. Five representatives, responsible for helping to prepare the Constitution, were added in May. During the July renewal, Danton is eliminated. Gradually, during the summer, the grand committee of Year II was formed. Robespierre, Carnot, Prior of the Côte d'Or, Billaud-Varenne, Collot d'Herbois, Barère, Gasparin, Lindet, Couthon, Saint-Just and Jean Bon Saint-André make it up. Until 9-Thermidor, animated by a single will, to save the Republic, this committee accomplished an overwhelming task, the restoration of the internal and external situation. Almighty as long as its members remain united, forgetting sometimes deep dissensions, it will be lost when they rise up against each other.
Previous to the Committee of Public Safety, the Safety Committee general was created on October 2, 1792. In charge of the general police, the surveillance of prisons, the arrest of suspects, he will in fact create the conditions for the exercise of Terror. Among its members, fierce revolutionaries like Vadier or Amar, moderates like Bayle
The only valuable German troop present in the region belonged to the XI Panzer Gespent (“Ghost” division) stationed in the Toulouse-Carcassonne-Albi triangle. But for General Walther Botsch (Chief of Staff of the XIX Army), the value of the Panzers was questionable. Like all the other armored units