Festival of the Federation
July 14, 1790
A year after the Bastille fell, 300,000 Parisians gathered on the Champ de Mars for a secular mass on liberty altars. Talleyrand celebrated. Lafayette swore an oath. Louis XVI, still king, swore one too. For an afternoon, it seemed the Revolution might end peacefully in a constitutional monarchy. It did not.
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