The Assassination of the King and Queen of France

After the day of daggers, radicals in paris were on hyper alert. And so when they learned that the royal family was getting ready to leave on a week's holiday, it screamed, escape attempt. When the king and queen emerged from the palace to get into their waiting carriage, they were heckled mercilessly. Lafayette came out and ordered a company of national guardsmen to escort the family through the crowd. But as had happened on the day of the women's march on versailles, the company refused the order,. embarrassing lafayette to no end. For two hours, the family sat inside the carriage, listening to every insult in the book hurled at them while waiting for the