The Red and Blue of Paris

Mobs stormed lesenvalide, a complex of buildings that served as a veteran's hospital and to day houses the muse de larmi. The mob located an arsenal of nearly 30 thousand muskets, which were then just handed out indiscriminately. They also got their hands on a couple of heavy guns. In the middle of all this, the troops that had been called in over the last few weeks were just overwhelmed, and their officers pulled out of the city centre completely. Paris was now in revolt and winning. But the paris electors were not wild anarchists, and they didn't like the idea of mob any more than the archest arch conservative. So they started organizing a