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Siege of Paris
About 40,000 Vikings land at Champ de Mars & lay siege to Paris for 11 months
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Champ de Mars in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
About 40,000 Vikings land at Champ de Mars & lay siege to Paris for 11 months
Leads celebrations & oath taking in memory of the 1st yr of the fall of the Bastille
Leads celebrations and oath taking in memory of the 1st yr of the fall of the Bastille.
Louis XVI swore publicly to uphold the law and the constitutional settlement during the Festival of the Federation.
Louis XVI attended the Festival of the Federation, a national ceremony intended to display unity around the Revolution and constitutional monarchy.
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