The Battle of Les Envalide

A group of adventurous souls scaled the guardhouse, got inside the outer courtyard and cut down the rope holding up the drawbridge. The crowd rushed into the inner fortress, disarmed the soldiers and seized the gunpowder. Then they excitedly looked around for the great hordes of political prisoners still chained pitifully to dungeon walls, dying to be set free. But all they found were seven old men, four who had been convicted of some kind of crime or misdemeanour; one was a devient aristocrat held at the request of his own family. They marched him back towards the hotel de ville. And though he survived the journey, he was pretty badly beaten, kicked and spit on