The Legislative Assembly Made a Few Decisions That Guaranteed They Would Lose Control of the Situation

Lafayette: The abuse of king louis by the mobs of paris had been abhorrent to a lot of people. Petitions of solidarity with the king started coming in from the provinces demanding that the organizers of june twentieth be punished. But if they were worried about losing control of the situation, the legislative assembly then made a few decisions that all but guaranteed they would lose control," he says. "They called for 50 thousand new volunteers to join the army and authorized all local national guard units to be despatched at once"