The government decides to seize the National Guard’s cannons

Government troops tried to remove National Guard artillery from Montmartre and Belleville. Residents and guards resisted, many soldiers fraternized with the crowd, and the operation collapsed. The...

After troops refused orders to fire on the crowd, General Claude Lecomte and former general Jacques Léonard Clément-Thomas were seized and shot. Their deaths became a central charge in the...

With the national government established at Versailles, the Central Committee of the National Guard announced elections for a new communal government and presented its rule as temporary.

Supporters of the Versailles government marched against the Central Committee. A confrontation near the Place Vendôme ended in gunfire and casualties, deepening the division between revolutionary...

Parisian voters elected representatives to a municipal council. The results gave influence to Jacobins, Blanquists, Internationalists, socialists and other republican revolutionaries, although...