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[The Champ de Mars Massacre], July 1791
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[Paris], 19 and 20 Juillet 1791 Troisième Année de la Liberté.
Pp.[159]-164 and [165]-172, reports and debates on the "massacre" on pp.163-4 and 166-8. On the 17 July the Assembly decided that Louis XVI could continue as King. Republicans led by Danton held a protest meeting on the Champs de Mars and were in the end fired upon by Lafayette's National Guard, about 50 people being killed.
