Old Regime policing legacy
Bertier de Sauvigny's earlier role during food riots gave the public a history of repression to associate with his name in 1789.
Role range: 1789-1792
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Louis-Bénigne-François Sauvigny Biography and Timeline — Page 2
Follow Louis-Bénigne-François Sauvigny through 60 dated historical records for France.
Louis-Bénigne-François Sauvigny, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1789
Paris municipal weakness exposed
The crowd killing of Bertier de Sauvigny exposed the weakness of authorities trying to impose order in the days after the Bastille fell.
Role range: 1789-1792
Place de Grève crowd gathering
A crowd assembled in the area of the Place de Grève where Bertier de Sauvigny would be killed on 22 July.
Role range: 1789-1792
Popular justice outside courts
Bertier de Sauvigny was killed by a crowd rather than through a regular judicial proceeding, showing the reach of extralegal violence in July 1789.
Role range: 1789-1792
Prisoner exposed to crowd
Bertier de Sauvigny was brought into a city where angry spectators treated him as an emblem of hated royal administration.
Role range: 1789-1792
Provisioning troops near Paris
Bertier de Sauvigny was charged with supplying troops assembled around Paris as the royal government prepared for unrest.
Role range: 1789-1792
Public distrust of food officials
Suspicion of officials responsible for grain and food supplies increasingly focused on Bertier de Sauvigny during the revolutionary crisis.
Role range: 1789-1792
Public humiliation during return
Bertier de Sauvigny's passage into the capital was marked by public hostility that demonstrated the collapse of ordinary safeguards for detainees.
Role range: 1789-1792
Public memory of July killings
Accounts of the July violence often pair Bertier de Sauvigny's lynching with the death of Foulon as warnings about unchecked crowd punishment.
Role range: 1789-1792
Representation of Foulon's head
Images showing Foulon's head presented to Bertier de Sauvigny emphasize the terrifying connection between the two executions.
Role range: 1789-1792
Responsibility for civilians and soldiers
Bertier de Sauvigny's dual involvement with provisions for civilians and troops made his administrative role especially controversial in the crisis.
Role range: 1789-1792
Revolutionary crowd mobilization
The gathering against Bertier de Sauvigny showed how quickly fear over subsistence could mobilize collective action in revolutionary Paris.
Role range: 1789-1792
Revolutionary resentment of intendants
As a provincial representative of royal power Bertier de Sauvigny personified institutions that revolutionaries increasingly challenged.
Role range: 1789-1792
Royal administrative crisis
The murder of Bertier de Sauvigny represented a visible rupture between the old network of royal officials and revolutionary crowds.
Role range: 1789-1792
Royal administrative responsibilities
The intendant's duties linked Bertier de Sauvigny to tax administration, policing and the implementation of royal orders across the Paris generality.
Role range: 1789-1792
Royal military concentration
The presence of royal troops around Paris sharpened suspicion of officials tasked with their provisions, including Bertier de Sauvigny.
Role range: 1789-1792
Tension over army provisioning
The need to provision royal troops intensified hostility toward Bertier de Sauvigny as Parisians feared military repression.
Role range: 1789-1792
Transfer toward capital
After his arrest Bertier de Sauvigny was taken toward Paris, where popular crowds demanded to confront the royal official.
Role range: 1789-1792
Two linked killings
The deaths of Foulon and Bertier de Sauvigny on the same day became linked examples of popular vengeance against perceived royal enemies.
Role range: 1789-1792
Violence against supply officials
Bertier de Sauvigny's death illustrated the lethal danger faced by officials blamed for food shortages amid revolutionary panic.
Role range: 1789-1792
Records, sources and methodology
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