- Captain D'Agoust
Captain D'Agoust was an officer of the
Swiss Guards , described byThomas Carlyle in his classic recounting of theFrench Revolution , as a "cast-iron" individual. On4 May 1788 , fourteen months before the Revolution, the captain, acting on the order of theCourt of Versailles , marched theParliament of Paris out of thePalais de Justice and removed the key from the premises. The event is considered one of the key mileposts on the road to the Revolution.References
* Thomas Carlyle's "
The French Revolution, A History ", Book I, chapter viii.
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