19. The Paris Revolution
On the afternoon of July 13, 1789, the crowd of Parisian citizens, including a large number of French women, rushed to the Tuileries Palace, where Louis XVI lived, where the power center of the French kingdom was the absolutist royal power, and most of the king's orders came from the Tuileries Palace!
Of course, Louis XVI may have been a little cowardly, but he was not a fool, as early as the alarm bell rang in the city of Paris, Louis XVI took his queen and hurried away under the escort of German mercenaries to the safer palace of Versailles!
It was precisely because the German mercenaries were temporarily and hurriedly transferred away that Lin Haoda's departure was not captured, and in front of this sign of chaos, even Lin Haoda's uncle Leo couldn't care about his own 'distant relative' who was not related by blood, and hurriedly took his own people to join the army early in the morning and obey the king's dispatch to escort him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Only then can you tell which side of the true allegiance to the king belongs to!
The entire garrison of Paris, in addition to the guards led by the prince who protected the palace all the year round, the French security forces and other troops in the city of Paris, under the constant ringing of the alarm bell in the city of Paris, refused the king's orders, firmly entrenched themselves in the city of Paris, and obeyed the bourgeois regime formed mainly by the patriots, the Standing Committee!
In just a few hours on the morning of July 13, the Hôtel de Ville became the brainchild of the city of Paris that held military power and led the people's armed revolution!
The efficiency of the bourgeoisie is evident here!
When Louis XVI and his queen arrived at the Palace of Versailles, escorted by mercenaries, they gathered and formed the armed citizens of Paris, who had been thoroughly stirred, and drove to the Tuileries Palace.
Although there was no king here, there was a group of aristocratic bureaucrats left behind in the autocratic royal power, and Louis XVI's absconding from Versailles did not mean that he was willing to give up the whole of Paris to the revolutionary rebels.
Tens of thousands of Parisians, some with muskets, some with spears, some with axes, etc., rushed towards the Tuileries Palace like the fury of the sea!
The French soldiers set up along the way to stop them, under the cries of the people, not only did not open fire on the mob, but became part of the revolutionaries!
The Tuileries Palace soon learned the news, and they already knew that the King's army in Paris had completely collapsed, and that the unpopular Louis XVI had no choice but a few thousand foreign mercenaries and a few poor guards, and there were not many people to compete with the already boiling revolutionary armed forces of Paris!
More than 10,000 Parisians, armed with all kinds of murderous weapons, easily occupied the square and gardens of the Tuileries Palace, completely blocking the passage to the outside world!
At this sacred moment, among the spontaneously organized burghers of Paris, a young man jumped out, stood on a high pavilion, and shouted to the crowd: "Citizens, the German soldiers hired by the King are marching towards Paris, they are going to bring bloodshed and massacre, take up arms, this is our only way to live!"
After the final mobilization, more than 10,000 armed Parisian mobs, armed with axes, kitchen knives, iron bars, shotguns, etc., stormed the center of Parisian royal power - the Tuileries Palace!
At this moment, a group of hundreds of elite guards cuirassiers rushed out of the palace like a whirlwind, brandishing sabers made of stainless steel, riding tall horses, and slashing at the revolutionary masses without hesitation!
How could the rabble of ordinary armed mobs of Paris, who did not even have many muskets, be able to hold back the dense charge of the cavalry?
In fact, the 10,000-odd Parisian mob that stormed the Tuileries was not at all part of the bourgeois-controlled plan of the town hall, and was completely a spontaneous action organized by very 'conscious' Parisian citizens!
The town hall of the Standing Committee, of course, did not prevent this group of revolutionary people from going to the Tuileries Palace!
The slaughter continued, and the fierce fighting power of the Guards cuirassiers slaughtered these men and women of Paris, who had not seen much blood, and they were just a group of enthusiastic revolutionary masses that had organized themselves spontaneously, and there was no military organization or regulations at all, and when blood was spilled all over the land, these French with strong romantic colors could only do to flee in all directions......
The hundreds of guards cuirassiers were only to disperse the revolutionary mob in Paris, and they did not mean to kill them all, and their numbers did not allow them to do so!
If you attract militia forces controlled by the Standing Committee, they will not be enough to see at all!
After the cuirassiers of the Guards loyal to the royal family completed their mission, they escorted the nobles of the Tuileries Palace to escape from the dangerous city of Paris.
The nobles of the Tuileries knew very well that they seemed to have easily defeated tens of thousands of revolutionary masses in Paris, but this was only temporary, and when the patriots integrated the revolutionary armed forces in Paris, no one could fight against them in the city of Paris!
As the fleeing Tuileries nobles expected, the innumerable revolutionary population of Paris, guided by someone who cares, rushed to the Disabled Soldiers' House in Paris, where they took 32,000 muskets!
At the same time, all the arms shops in the city of Paris were looted and they became victims of the Paris Revolution......
The armed citizens of Paris who obtained firearms, the combat effectiveness immediately increased to a higher level, the sound of gunfire began on the afternoon of July 13, until midnight, there were rebels everywhere in the city of Paris, the army loyal to the king was divided into pieces by the insurrectionists who had an absolute advantage in numbers, and if you were lucky, you could withdraw from the city of Paris and follow the king to the Palace of Versailles to save your life, and if you were unlucky, you could only become the object of the armed soldiers of Paris to vent their anger!
When the whole city of Paris was plunged into a bloody struggle, the Standing Committee in the hands of the bourgeoisie completed the integration of its own armed forces!
The former French army and militia forces that obeyed the town hall, plus the revolutionary youth who were temporarily recruited, were reorganized and relocated to officers, and the basic military organization was perfected!
In the way of veterans leading new soldiers, these bourgeois militias quickly have basic combat effectiveness!
By the time the timeline shifted to the early morning of July 14, the whole of Paris was already in the hands of the bourgeois militia of the Standing Committee and the innumerable number of armed citizens of Paris, and only one Bastille was left in the entire city of Paris!