Chapter 2 · 1789 to 1794
Year of Fire
The Revolution comes into the open, takes the city and becomes the government. Cockades, pikes and crowds, then the shadow of the blade.
- Map
- 12 districts
- Newspaper
- The People's Friend
- Street lighting
- Oil lanterns
The levels
- Fourteenth of July8 July 1789
- The Bread March4 October 1789
- Flight by Night20 June 1791
- Field of Mars8 July 1791
- The Palace Falls15 July 1792
- The Blade5 September 1793
- Interlude 2
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Year of Fire
If the interlude ended this way: Émile opened the armory to the crowd.
In the summer of 1789 a locksmith's boy opened a door, and thirty thousand muskets walked out of the Invalides. The faubourgs had arms. They needed only powder.
Otherwise
In the summer of 1789 a locksmith's boy locked a door, and the muskets of the Invalides stayed where they were. The faubourgs would have to take the powder with their bare hands.
The Estates-General had become a National Assembly, and the Assembly had sworn not to go home until France had a constitution. King Aurèle III sent for his regiments.
In the cafés of the Palais-Royal, a young lawyer named Maximin Vérac listened more than he spoke, and wrote everything down.
The factions
The Revolution
- Moderates
- Lawyers and deputies of the Assembly who want a constitution, not a war.
- Mountain
- The radical deputies and the sans-culottes of the sections.
- Enragés
- Section firebrands who trust no deputy at all.
- Journalists
- The patriot papers that set the city's mood every morning.
The Law
- Government
- The Crown and its ministers, later the Committee that rules in its place.
- Guards
- The Swiss and the regiments still loyal to the throne.
- Police
- The gendarmes of the Châtelet and the municipal police.
- Surveillance
- Spies in the clubs, later the surveillance committees.
- Bankers
- The financiers who hold the Crown's paper.
Neutral factions
- Church
- Merchants
- Press
- Underworld
- Foreign Powers
- Courts and armies across the border, watching the throne.
- The Crowd
- Citizen Guard
- The armed bourgeois militia under the Marquis de Saint-Clair. It follows the city's mood.
Characters
- Maximin Vérac
- Georges Lamarre
- Jean-Paul Saulnier
- The Marquis de Saint-Clair
- King Aurèle III
- Queen Isaure
- Lucie
- Joseph Vaucorbeil
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The lanterns
If the Revolution won The Blade
The crowds had a new word that summer: 'à la lanterne', to the lamp post. The old ropes that held the lanterns across the streets had been used for something else.
Otherwise
The lamplighters still climbed their ladders at dusk. Under the lanterns, the patrols of the Committee checked everyone's papers.
There were more lamps now than in 1789, and more people looking up at them with fear.