Image of the Attack of 20 June 1792

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Title

Image of the Attack of 20 June 1792

Description

By the spring of 1792, the Revolution was in crisis on several fronts—in April, war had been declared on the Habsburg Empire, uprisings were taking place in provincial cities, and the Legislative Assembly was increasingly divided over whether to consolidate gains already made or press forward with more changes. On 20 June crowds of people in Paris took matters into their own hands, invading first the Assembly and then the Tuileries Palace, where they forced the King to don a Phrygian cap and drink a toast to the health of the nation.

Creator

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Source

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University

Date

1792-06-20

Rights

All Rights Reserved

Relation

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/174/

Format

JPEG

Language

French

Identifier

174

Original Format

Etching

Physical Dimensions

25.7 x 16.8 cm

Title (French)

Le peuple aux Tuileries, 20 Juin 1792

Citation

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, “Image of the Attack of 20 June 1792,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed March 19, 2024, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/174.