# Demonstration invades Tuileries (1792)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1792-demonstration-invades-tuileries
Location: Paris
Categories: main-event

Popular militants confronted the king amid growing war and political crisis. Within the broader French Revolution period, The Revolution dismantled legal privilege and absolute monarchy, declared new rights and created a republic. War, popular mobilization, civil conflict and political terror repeatedly transformed the revolutionary state. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Louis XVI (King of France). Demonstration invades Tuileries mattered because collective action and political conflict altered the relationship between society and governing authority. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Demonstration invades Tuileries mattered because collective action and political conflict altered the relationship between society and governing authority.

Ruler at the time: [National Convention](https://history-france.com/rulers/national-convention)

## Sources
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