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3 February – Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris. On 4 July, the leaders of Paris honor him with a banquet at the Hôtel de Ville and a fireworks show. [58] 1656 – Hôpital général de Paris (prison) begins operating. [59] 1658 1 March – A historic flood of the Seine washes away the Pont Marie, even though it was built of stone. The water ...
Paris, 27 July. Throughout the day, Paris grew quiet as the milling crowds grew larger. At 4:30 pm commanders of the troops of the First Military division of Paris and the Garde Royale were ordered to concentrate their troops, and guns, on the Place du Carrousel facing the Tuileries, the Place Vendôme, and the Place de la Bastille. In order to ...
This is a timeline of French history, comprising important legal changes and political events in France and its ... 28 July: The Fieschi attentat: In Paris, ...
July 1789. July 6: The National Assembly forms a committee of thirty members to write a new Constitution. July 8: As tensions mount, the Comte de Mirabeau, Third-Estate deputy from Aix, demands that the Gardes Françaises of the military household of the king of France be moved out of Paris, and that a new civil guard be created within the city.
[3]: 60 Returning to Paris from Saint-Cloud, he met his ministers and generals at the Tuileries and declared a state of siege, then rode through the area of the rising, to the applause of the troops. The final struggle came at the Cloître Saint-Merry, [4] where fighting continued until the early evening of 6 June. Total casualties in the ...
Augustin Dumont's Génie de la Liberté. The July Column (French: Colonne de Juillet) is a monumental column in Paris commemorating the Revolution of 1830.It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille and celebrates the Trois Glorieuses — the 'three glorious' days of 27–29 July 1830 that saw the fall of Charles X, King of France, and the commencement of the July Monarchy of Louis ...
The July Monarchy (French: Monarchie de Juillet), officially the Kingdom of France (French: Royaume de France), was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I, starting on 26 July 1830, with the revolutionary victory after the July Revolution of 1830, and ending 23 February 1848, with the Revolution of 1848.
23 July – Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais, General and politician, executed (born 1760) 25 July – André Chénier, poet, executed (born 1762) 28 July – executions Maximilien Robespierre, Revolutionary leader (born 1758) [7] Augustin Robespierre, Revolutionary politician (born 1763) Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Revolutionary leader (born ...