They couldn't squeeze out a single coin.
The Third Estate directly kicked out the nobles and part of the clergy and set up the National Assembly on their own to issue a new constitution.
We of the Third Estate are France; you nobles are redundant. Either you join us, or we'll expel you from France.
You think Louis XVI could swallow that?
So, under his orders, several foreign armies were converging on Paris, preparing to crush this rabble at home.
Yes, bringing in foreign troops to suppress the people of your own capital— even Cixi wouldn't have gone that far.
At this very moment, Prussia's army was already pressing on the border.
Only through the constant explanations of the people around him did David half understand, half not, what the situation was—the storm was about to break.
Rumors of impending rebellion and uprising were everywhere, and all along the road were beggar peasants and furious sans-culottes.
