#champ de Mars

[ornithorynquerouge]

Juergen Teller "I love Paris"

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Champ de Mars…

[chicinsilk]

Air hostesses of the airline Trans World Airlines, in Paris on the Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in 1958. (Photo Loomis Dean for Life Magazine)

Air hostesses of the airline Trans World Airlines, in Paris on the Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in 1958. (Photo Loomis Dean for Life Magazine)

[emaadsidiki]

Bonjour, Champ de Mars! ۪۫❁ཻུ۪✾⚘༉

[nordleuchten]

Hi!First of all, I'm glad I have found your page: Lafayette is one of my favourite historical characters and following a so well organized blog like yours really satifies my hunger for knowledge about him.I wanted to ask you whether you could enlighten me about what happened during the Camp de Mars massacre.I've read somewhere,he explicitly ordered his men to attack the civilians.Other sources claim, a soldier was wounded by the people and so the troops started shooting. What happened exaclty?

Dear @faxelange,

first of all; thank you so much for your kind words, such comments truly make my day. :-)

What happened exactly during the Champ de Mars massacre? Well, nobody can say for certain. I have written a long post here (that I have to edit one fine day sincere there is one sentence that is less critical than intended), trying to present the viewpoints of both sides, but there is very little that can be said with absolute certainty.

In short, we do not exactly know what really happened that day but even if we assume the absolute “best” scenario, La Fayette still stands as a weak leader who had no control about his armed guard and could not prevent the death of innocent people. What we do know is that the National Guard under La Fayette’s command fired at the crowd, and that people were wounded and killed. I can not imagine La Fayette giving the command in cold blood to kill the people in assembly – but I can imagine that La Fayette, fearing for his man, the life of the present officials and for his own life, gave a rash command in the heat of the moment, a command that he had not thought through and that he later regretted. In his first official statements, La Fayette his relatively vague what his exact orders were and as the years passed, his statements did not exactly become clearer – a fact that did not help the matter at all.

I know that this is a bit of an unsatisfying answer, but I hope you can still make some use of it. I hope you have/had a wonderful day!

[rurik-dmitrienko]

Champ de Mars, Paris By Rurik Dmitrienko

[forthepleasureofmylife]

Champ de Mars  Paris

Photo: Dieter Krehbiel

[hsundholm]

Eiffel Tower Evening by Henrik Sundholm Via Flickr: This view, I presume, requires no particular introduction. Just came back after spending six nights in Paris. Had never been to France before! I got this shot from the roof terrace of Montparnasse Tower.

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte / Vintage Postcard / Carte Postale

Exposition Paris 1937 Ponte de l'alimentation Champ de Mars Pavillon Clacquesin L'apéritif le plus Sain EXTRAIT DES PINS

[eopederson]

Champ de Mars et Tour Eiffel, Paris, 2005.

Avant que des murs de sécurité ne soient érigés.

[walker-diaries]

[rcvandenboogaard]

Parijs als middelpunt van de wereld in 1867

Nu Parijs zich voorbereidt op de Olympische Spelen – een enigszins betaalbare hotelkamer lijkt voorlopig niet te krijgen – is het misschien aardig terug te kijken naar eerdere evenementen waarbij Parijs zich het hart van de wereld kon voelen, zoals de acht Wereldtentoonstellingen die de Franse hoofdstad herbergde tussen 1855 en 1937. En dan in het bijzonder naar die van 1867, waaraan de Franse…

[digiindie]

Champ de Mars - 'Kids' (@champ_de_mars_band)

[wolfephoto]

Champ de Mars - Paris (2023) https://www.flickr.com/photos/burtgummer/53196485934

[rurik-dmitrienko]

En traversant le Champ de Mars... By Rurik Dmitrienko