August 10, 1792 French revolutionaries stormed King Louis XVI’s Tuileries Palace, forcing him to take refuge in the chamber of the Legislative Assembly, and massacring his Swiss Guard and various courtiers.
In this imagined scene by Maurice Réalier-Dumas (1888), a young Napoleon Bonaparte considers the royal mantle and crown left unattended on the floor, beside a dying Swiss Guard.
Napoleon was an eyewitness to the storming of the palace, and was appalled by the massacre of soldiers, who had been ordered not to fire on the crowd.
Dave Does History 
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