Adoption by Louis XVI of the tricolor rosette
See also: Rosette (homonymy)
July 17th, 1789, Louis XVI, accompanied by some courtiers, some bodyguards and of 32 drawn deputies to the fate goes to the Town hall of Paris where it receives the tricolor Cocarde.
Louis XVI advanced in the middle of the Revolution out of weapons: 100 000 national guards which did not shout Vive the king! but Lives the nation! It was accepted with the Town hall by the new mayor Jean-Sylvain Bailly. The ambassador of the United States in France, Thomas Jefferson written: “it was a scene more dangerous than all those which I saw in America and which those that presented Paris during the last five days. It places absolutely the General states out of any attack and one can consider that they have chart blanche."
Joseph-Gilbert Motier, marquis of Fayette gives to Louis XVI the news " rosette tricolore" with the colors of the town of Paris, red and blue. Fayette had made add the white by reverence towards Louis XVI, the white being the color of the Bourbons. Louis XVI puts it at his hat, and known as by stammering that it approves the nomination of Jean-Sylvain Bailly to the town hall of Paris as well as the formation of the national guard, with at his head the marquis of Fayette.
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