The National Assembly Decided Not to Kick the King Out of Power

Don jan and his friends in the cordoly did not use the anniversary of the fall of the bastille to launch a mass demonstration in favor of kicking louis out of power. That would have been just too neat and tidy. A part of the reason for that is that no one yet knew what the national assembly had decided to do with the king. The leadership of the cortoly had made it clear they wanted a republic. But even the radicals in the jacobin club weren't ready to bite at that apple quite yet. When dantan thundered a call for a republic in the jacsobins one night, no less a radical than robespierre, silenced him