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War, Revolt and the Overthrow of the Monarchy ♠ (Why was Louis XI…

- - - - This was significant because it appeared to be a foreign threat to interfere in French internal affairs; enemies of the King considered the declaration as justifying their mistrust of the monarchy
      - On the other hand, the Declaration was largely redundant because no other powers would join the Austrians in their interference, and would therefore not lead to very much action. The Assembly did not debate it.
      - Moreover, once the Constitution of 1791 was passed in September, Leopold II gave it a warm welcome - indicating that the possibility of Austrian intervention was becoming more and more remote.
- - - - There were 130 Girondins in the 745-seated Legislative Assembly, so to obtain a majority Brissot needed to appease the support of Lafayette's followers but also the non-partisan centre ground.
- - - - The admission of 'passive citizens' into the sectional assemblies and the National Guard was granted by the end of the month; the bourgeois middle class control of 1789 had clearly at least partially began to give way to the popular democracy of the sans-culottes.
  - - - Attack on Tuileries 10th August 1792: on the 9th August, sans-culottes took over the Hotel de Ville, expelled the city council and established a revolutionary Commune. Several thousand National Guard members and 2000 federes marched on the Tuileries Palace (again - see 20th June failed journee). 600 Swiss guards were killed in the scuffle, plus 300 Parisians and 90 federes. The Assembly was also invaded and forced to recognise the new Revolutionary Commune.