. An account of the life of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier, Marquis de La Fayette : Major-General in the service of America and the noblest patriot of the French Revolution : with illustrations of the La Fayette pattern of sterling silver tableware . he proposal to absolve the King from responsibility for his flight aroused bitter 39 antagonism from the Jaco-bins, and before it was en-acted a petition to the Assem-bly urging his dethronementwas started on the altar atthe Champ de Mars andsigned by a multitude of Jaco-bin sympathizers, who havingcreated a disturbanc
. An account of the life of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier, Marquis de La Fayette : Major-General in the service of America and the noblest patriot of the French Revolution : with illustrations of the La Fayette pattern of sterling silver tableware . he proposal to absolve the King from responsibility for his flight aroused bitter 39 antagonism from the Jaco-bins, and before it was en-acted a petition to the Assem-bly urging his dethronementwas started on the altar atthe Champ de Mars andsigned by a multitude of Jaco-bin sympathizers, who havingcreated a disturbance werefired upon and dispersed, sev-eral being killed—by the Na-tional Guards under La Fay-ette and by the authority ofMayor Bailly, who proclaimedthem guilty of disorderly con-duct. With the dissolution ofthe Constituent Assembly, LaFayette resigned his com-mand of the National Guards,which he avowedly held onlyto preserve order until theConstitution should be estab-lished, and retired to his homein Chavaniac taking with hima sword forged from bolts ofthe Bastile and presented asa token of the esteem of hisGuards. With all others of thebetter classes he believed thedestiny of the nation happilysettled and he looked forwardto peace at his country estate,. NATIONAL FEDERATION IN CHAMP DE MARS JULY 14, 1790 The Constitution from which so much was expected failed unmistakably,however, to fulfill its mission and the new Legislative Assembly elected under itlacked the capacity of its predecessor, whose members had specifically decreedthat none of their number should be eligible to membership in the new troubles appeared and multiplied, and early in 1792 these were aug-mented by a declaration of war against Austria. This brought La Fayette againto the front, as at the request of the King he was appointed to command theArmy of the Center, one of three divisions of the French forces, with headquar-ters at Maubeuge, in Flanders near the Prussian frontier. From his camp a
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