Although Carlyle later became an extreme reactionary in politics, in The French Revolution , an early work, he presents the violence as natural — a predictable response to the lack of leadership by the French king and nobles; for Carlyle, who despised the British upper classes, atrocities, such as the murder of Delaunay, functioned as a warning to his own country.
The French Revolution , which he wrote early in his career, took this warning as a call for honest new leadership that could ameliorate the hardships of the poor; later in his career, he increasingly took it as a warning of the impending chaos in which he feared the poor would plunge Great Britain. Accessed 23 August Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.
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A part of the impatient crowd started to enter the outer courtyard of the fortress after a small group broke the chains securing the drawbridge.
Eventually de Launay decided to capitulate on the condition that nobody from within the fortress would be killed, and threatened that he would blow up the entire fortress and the surrounding district if these conditions were rejected. The actual killing was reported to have been unleashed by the fact that de Launay, desperate and abused by the crowd, kicked an unemployed cook named Desnot in the groin. After the killing, his head was sawn off by Mathieu Jouve Jourdan, a butcher.
It was fixed on a pike to be carried through the streets. Several other defenders of the Bastille were also lynched. The history writer Simon Schama describes de Launay as a "reasonably conscientious if somewhat dour" [8] functionary who treated prisoners more humanely than his predecessors had done.
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