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6.02- Charles The Simple

Revolutions

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The Grand Review of the Paris National Guard

The king had a bad feeling about the day when he found the crowds lining the street growing ominously quiet as he approached. Things started out ok, but then voices started cat calling out from the ranks and trouble makers refused direct orders to pipe down. But here's the really important detail, there were 20 thousand men out there on the champ de mars, and at most were talking about a dozen or two malcontents making a bit of a scene. So in the grand scheme of things, the mildly embarrassing spectacle wasn't the problem, but rather how charles reacted, believing that they all now were really against him. The next day, he got up and ordered the paris national guard

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