10 August (French Revolution)

The Insurrection of 10 August 1792

Prise du palais des Tuileries
Jean Duplessis-Bertaux () (1747–1819)
National Museum of the Chateau de Versailles, 1793

Date	10 August 1792
Location	Paris, France
Result	Republican victory

Belligerents

Republicans:

Royalists:

Swiss Guard
Gentlemen-at-arms

Commanders and leaders

Antoine Joseph Santerre

François Joseph Westermann

Charles-Alexis Alexandre

Claude Fournier-L'Héritier

Claude François Lazowski

Louis XVI

Augustin-Joseph de Mailly

Karl Josef von Bachmann

Strength

~20,000
12 cannons

900 Swiss Guard
200 to 300 Gentlemen-at-arms
Some royalist National Guards

Casualties and losses

200 to 400 killed

600 killed
200 captured

Republicans:

Royalists:

The Insurrection of 10 August 1792 was one of the defining events in the history of the French Revolution. The storming of the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard of the insurrectional Paris Commune and revolutionary fédérés from Marseilles and Brittany resulted in the fall of the French monarchy. King Louis XVI and the royal family took shelter with the Legislative Assembly, which was suspended. The formal end of the monarchy that occurred six weeks later was one of the first acts of the new National Convention. This insurrection and its outcome are most commonly referred to by historians of the Revolution simply as "the 10 August"; other common designations include "the journée of the 10 August" (French: journée du 10 août) or "the Second Revolution".

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