After the Bastille was captured, there were rumors everywhere in the city of Paris that the king was furious and was about to mobilize a large army to suppress the people of Paris. It is said that the furious king ordered that the "big trees should be fired, stones should be cut, and people should be changed" in the city of Paris. So the whole of Paris became nervous, and there were crowds of people building barricades everywhere on the streets. Some people, in fear, actually demolished houses (of course, most of the time, demolished houses were the "tyrant's lackeys", and how many "tyrant's lackeys" were there, depends on how much materials were needed to build barricades.) to build barricades.

Almost overnight, all taxi carriage drivers in Paris were unemployed because all the streets had barricades and barricades. Some inexperienced guys did not even consider leaving access to and from when building barricades.

In order to resist possible attacks, all the militias in Paris felt that they should unite and fight under the same flag. So the militia representatives from various blocks gathered together to discuss the matter of unified command.

The militias in every neighborhood sincerely hope to unite, which is actually the instinct of humans as social animals when facing crisis. However, uniting requires a commanding agency and a commander. But the militias immediately discovered that it was difficult for them to find such a person.

Because most militias do not know each other, and at the same time, most militias also know that they lack military skills. The situation of the battle to siege the Bastille made them realize how big the gap is between them and the regular army. Although each of them does not take the Kingdom army in the Montmartre Heights seriously in their mouths, everyone is actually trembling in their hearts. Some people dream of guillotines or gallows when they dream.

Under such circumstances, a "good nobility" who did not attend the meeting at all but was considered "righteous, kind, loving the people and proficient in military affairs" was elected by most representatives as the commander-in-chief of this unified militia. This "good nobility" was naturally the Marquis of Lafayette.

It is said that in the meeting, someone mentioned the name of another "good nobleman" Duke of Orleans. However, other representatives said that His Highness the Duke of Orleans is indeed a "righteous, kind, and loving the people" good nobleman, and he has the advantage of "more generous" compared to the Marquis of Lafayette (because the Duke of Orleans is much richer than the Marquis of Lafayette). However, the Duke of Orleans does not understand military affairs at all. If he was asked to command, it would harm everyone.

Some representatives even said that when the Bastille was besieged, the sacrifice caused by His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans did bad things, which was even greater than the sacrifice brought by the tyrant's guns.

"Anyway, the Duke of Orleans is a trustworthy man. But military command is not something he can do." This sentence has become a common consensus.

After electing the Marquis of Lafayette, everyone sent people to invite the Marquis of Lafayette to take office. This was a bit similar to the fact that after a revolt in the later rebellion of the Dongdae Kingdom, the leaders of the uprising army pushed Li Bossus, who had not participated in the uprising, to the position of governor. However, the representatives of the Paris militia did not break into the Marquis of Lafayette's house with guns. They just went to the door of Lafayette and asked someone to hand the invitation in. The Marquis of Lafayette did not hide under the bed and shout "Don't harm me, don't harm me", but accepted the invitation openly and served as the commander-in-chief of the Paris militia.

As soon as the Marquis of Lafayette took office, he immediately began to rectify the militias in Paris. He first planned to reorganize all the militias in Paris into the National Self-Defense Forces.

For this reason, he immediately took out a military uniform designed for the National Self-Defense Army, a military uniform with blue trousers. He also took out the National Self-Defense Army badges and flags, which are composed of red, white and blue. Among them, red and blue are the colors of the city emblem of the Paris city, and white is the representative color of the Bourbon dynasty.

Such badges and flags clearly show the political tendency of the Marquis of Lafayette, who is a constitutional monarchy. But to be honest, don't look at the common people in Paris saying "tyrants" at this time. However, they actually agree with such flags and badges at this time.

The trousers in Paris did not expect to overthrow the king. After they defeated the Bastille, they were actually very afraid of the possible punishments of the king. They also agreed that the Marquis of Lafayette became the commander-in-chief. Another reason was that they believed that the Marquis of Lafayette could help them speak in front of the king.

In the eyes of those unpopular trousers, the Marquis of Lafayette is definitely the most suitable person to do this. Even, he is the only person suitable to do this. Because the other of the two great nobles who were obviously inclined to revolution (the Duke of Orleans) obviously had a tense relationship with the king. (The Duke of Orleans has always been committed to smearing the king, and of course he also had to establish an image of "the tyrant's power". Therefore, when people need a person who can communicate with the king, no one would think of him.)

The Marquis of Lafayette successfully took advantage of their psychology, and he assured them that he would and could defend everyone, as long as everyone could support his leadership.

The massacre that people were worried about did not happen, and the king's army did not attack Paris. In fact, the king did not believe in the army at all, and the people around him were trying their best to tell him that the army was not reliable.

For constitutionalists like the Marquis of Lafayette, only by making the king believe that the army is only loyal to the country, not the king's personal, can the king be forced to accept the constitutional monarchy. For those conservative nobles, such as the Earl of Artova, the standing army of the state is not a good thing. What kind of standing army does the country need? The army should not belong to the private parts of each noble, and should the king be summoned when needed? Moreover, in order to oppose the political enemy, the Marquis of Lafayette, they also tried their best to slander the French army.

Speaking of which, at least on the issue of "the army is unreliable", conservatives and constitutionalists reached a rare agreement. King Louis XVI was originally a somewhat indecisive person, and everyone said this, so he naturally believed it. So the king never thought of using the army to slaughter Paris at this time. Even when those "mobs" defeated the Bastille and the Earl of Artois said that the army actually participated in the rebellion, the king was so scared that he almost planned to flee to another province. In fact, just as the citizens of Paris were full of fear of the king, the king was also full of fear of the mobs in Paris.

But the civilians in the city of Paris did not know all this. In their opinion, the legendary massacre did not happen, and it must be the credit of the Marquis of Lafayette. The radicals believed that this was because the National Revolutionary Army he organized made the king retreat; the milder people felt that this was because the Marquis was suitable to act as a bridge between the citizens and the king.

The Marquis of Lafayette did serve as the bridge. A few days later, he brought a team of National Self-Defense Forces to Versailles to meet King Louis XVI. It is said that the monarch and his subjects had a happy conversation, and Louis XVI also put the hat badge of the National Revolutionary Army brought by Marquis of Lafayette on his hat.

As things developed here, the Marquis of Lafayette seemed to have won a great victory. An English-style, constitutional monarchy France seemed to be within reach.

Things seemed to be calm, and the Marquis of Lafayette was said to be busy drafting a very historic declaration in reference to the Declaration of Independence of North America and establishing a system of parliamentary and administrative institutions that reference the United Kingdom and North America.

Although the situation eased, the Paris Military Academy had not returned to normal. So Joseph was able to continue to stay at home to watch the show.

"If the revolution could end here, it might be a good thing for France." Joseph looked out from the window. On the street outside, a group of National Self-Defense Forces were busy demolishing the barricades.

"Is the revolution not over yet?" said Louis. "Joseph, I don't like revolution at all. I can't go to the streets, I can't go to school, I can't play with my classmates, and Aunt Sophie is not here anymore. Lucien also asks me to do housework... I don't like revolution at all!"

"At first I heard that the school was closed, you didn't know how happy you were! Now that Joseph is at home, you pretend to love studying!" Lucien sat on the chair, put his chin on the back of the high chair, and said contemptuously with his eyes slanted.

"That's because you pushed me all kinds of housework while Joseph was not at home!"

"I'm willing to accept the loss of the bet. I'll let you have a knight and a bishop. If you still lose, what else can I say!"

So Louis stopped talking. Instead, Lucien spoke, "Joseph, I heard what you meant just now. Do you think that the revolution is not over yet?"
Chapter completed!