Marquis de Launay
Birth: 1740
Death: 1789
De Launay had the misfortune to be governor of the Bastille when it was attacked by large crowd of Parisians on 14 July 1789. 'The Storming of the Bastille' came during the crowd's search for gunpowder to load the muskets they had seized elsewhere in the city. After he had surrendered, De Launay was decapitated and his head paraded through the streets on a pike.
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1789
16 July: Aftermath of the Fall of the Bastille
The duchess provides an immediate response to the dramatic Revolutionary events of early July 1789. Momentum had shifted from Versailles and the new...
22 July: Revolutionary Paris in July 1789
The duchess reflects on events in the Revolution so far and the rising power of Paris's new municipal government. She castigates a...
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