The King Had Not Been Abducted, He Had Run for It.

On the night of july sixteenth, it started going around that there was going to be a mass demonstration calling for the removal of louis from power. This put the paris commune gover men on high alert, and bay agreed with lafayette that the time had come to declare martial law. So when crowds started to gather a the champ de mars the late morning of july seventeenth, 17 91, lafayette and his guardsmen came down in a show of force,. intimidating the mob and driving them off. Later in the day, the leaders of the cardoly regrouped. They managed to wrangle up a good 20 thousand people. And they marched