Question

recall and write the incident of insurrection at Tuileries.
5 point answer

Answer 1

It was an important place as the Tuileries Palace, was the the official residence of Louis XVI.
It was also the home of the legislative assembly.
It was only after the October 1789, this palace continued to operate as a royal court.
On August 10th, 1792 a violent crowd attacked this palace with guns, sabres, pikes, daggers, scythes, iron bars and pieces of wood and killed dozens.
Gaurds were ordered to retaliate back with force by the King.
King and his family walked across the Tuileries garden and they according to reports took refuge in the Legislative Assembly building .
It followed with a brutal scene where scene butchery. Some two-thirds of the Swiss Guard were slaughtered, many were hacked to death by axe-wielding sans culottes. Heads were displayed on pikes or kicked around for sport. Body parts fed to dogs.
The radicals demanded dissoultion of the assembly which was done on August 11th .The members voted to suspend the king, replacing him with a five-man executive council.