<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Legislative Assembly degenerated into chaos before October 1792 . Francis Charles Montague concluded in 1911, "In the attempt to govern, the Assembly failed altogether . It left behind an empty treasury, an undisciplined army and navy, and a people debauched by safe and successful riot ." </P> <P> Lyons argues that the Constituent Assembly had liberal, rational, and individualistic goals that seem to have been largely achieved by 1791 . However, it failed to consolidate the gains of the Revolution, which continued with increasing momentum and escalating radicalism until 1794 . Lyons identifies six reasons for this escalation . First, the king did not accept the limitations on his powers, and mobilised support from foreign monarchs to reverse it . Second, the effort to overthrow the Roman Catholic Church, sell off its lands, close its monasteries and its charitable operations, and replace it with an unpopular makeshift system caused deep consternation among the pious and the peasants . Third, the economy was badly hurt by the issuance of ever increasing amounts of paper money (assignats), which caused more and more inflation; the rising prices hurt the urban poor who spent most of their income on food . Fourth, the rural peasants demanded liberation from the heavy system of taxes and dues owed to local landowners . Fifth, the working class of Paris and the other cities--the sans - culottes--resented the fact that the property owners and professionals had taken all the spoils of the Revolution . Finally, foreign powers threatened to overthrow the Revolution, which responded with extremism and systematic violence in its own defence . </P> <P> In the summer of 1792, all of Paris was against the king, and hoped that the Assembly would depose the king, but the Assembly hesitated . At dawn of 10 August 1792, a large, angry crowd of Parisians and soldiers from all over France, insurgents and popular militias, supported by the revolutionary Paris Commune, marched on the Tuileries Palace where the king resided, assailed the Palace and killed the Swiss Guards who were assigned for the protection of the king . </P>

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