<P> The king first learned of the storming only the next morning through the Duke of La Rochefoucauld . "Is it a revolt?" asked Louis XVI . The duke replied: "No sire, it's not a revolt; it's a revolution ." </P> <P> At Versailles, the Assembly remained ignorant of most of the Paris events, but eminently aware that Marshal de Broglie stood on the brink of unleashing a pro-Royalist coup to force the Assembly to adopt the order of 23 June and then to dissolve . The vicomte de Noailles apparently first brought reasonably accurate news of the Paris events to Versailles . M. Ganilh and Bancal - des - Issarts, dispatched to the Hôtel de Ville, confirmed his report . </P> <P> By the morning of 15 July, the outcome appeared clear to the king as well, and he and his military commanders backed down . The Royal troops concentrated around Paris dispersed to their frontier garrisons . The Marquis de la Fayette took up command of the National Guard at Paris; Jean - Sylvain Bailly--leader of the Third Estate and instigator of the Tennis Court Oath--became the city's mayor under a new governmental structure known as the Commune de Paris . The king announced that he would recall Necker and return from Versailles to Paris; on 17 July, in Paris, he accepted a tricolour cockade from Bailly and entered the Hôtel de Ville to cries of "Long live the King" and "Long live the Nation". </P> <P> Nonetheless, after this violence, nobles--little assured by the apparent and, as it was to prove, temporary reconciliation of king and people--started to flee the country as émigrés . Among the first to leave were the comte d'Artois (the future Charles X of France) and his two sons, the prince de Condé, the prince de Conti, the Polignac family, and (slightly later) Charles Alexandre de Calonne, the former finance minister . They settled at Turin, where Calonne, as agent for the count d'Artois and the prince de Condé, began plotting civil war within the kingdom and agitating for a European coalition against France . </P>

Where was rioting seen in the following days of july 14 1789