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Travellera16 Dec 2020 9:31 a.m. PST

I am working on a game for the storming of the Tuileries Palace Aug 10 1792 and trying to pin down what Paris National Guard Battalions that were involved in the fighting as I want to add the correct flag for the units. In the interesting book "Threshold of Terror" it is mentioned that the "Montreuil Battalion" participated. In this link
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all the flags for the Paris National Guard Battalions are displayed, but there are no "Montreuil" district listed so it must have another name? Any comments or advice would be much appreciated!

Fanch du Leon16 Dec 2020 10:31 a.m. PST

Actually The Montreuil bataillon doesn't belong to the garde Nationale de Paris. Here is a full list of the 60 real Parisian units forming the garde nationale in 1790-91:

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Here is another link showing a certificate given to citizen Jean Baptiste Noblet, volunteer in the Garde Nationale de Montreuil (and not Paris)

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But Sorry, i can't find how the flag look like. If i find it, will come back later here.

Travellera16 Dec 2020 12:18 p.m. PST

Fanch de Lyon,

many thanks for the response. I am still confused but at a higher level :)

On the map:

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you can see that section 25 on this map(out of the total of 48) is named Montreuil.

In the book I referred to, the author Allen writes(in relation to Santerre getting the battalions of Les Enfants-Trouves and des Minimes under arms: "The batallion Montreuil from next door then arrived"

So would this mean that the battalion Montreuil is indeed from Paris but not a National Guard unit?

Valmy9216 Dec 2020 12:56 p.m. PST

The section (25) seems to be part of Faubourg St. Antoine. Perhaps it's that one? I don't find a volontaires nationaux by that name either

Fanch du Leon16 Dec 2020 4:39 p.m. PST

Checked, and there is obviously an easy confusion to do. There is a parisian section called section de la rue de Montreuil (Montreuil street), but often referres as section de Montreuil. But there is an eastern parisian suburb called Montreuil sous Bois, often called simply Montreuil too.
The 60 bats forming the Garde Nationale de Paris existed until 1790, when the districts were lowered to 48. Maybe the Montreuil bataillon inherited a flag from several gathered units. We should check the 12 vanished district's names anf find which ones are close to Montreuil.

Travellera16 Dec 2020 11:49 p.m. PST

It says on the bottom pf this page:

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That the number of battalions were still 60 until Aug 19, 1792 when the National Guard was reorganized and received new standardized colours. So it seems that the author I mentooned above is referring to the Montreuil bat even though it was not named Montreuil until 9 days after the Aug 10. I agree with you that if we can find which of the 60 districts that the Rue de Montreuil belonged to should give us the answer. If it was "next door" to the Enfant-Trouves, it must be one of the districts forming the 5th division on this page:
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Is there a map somewhere of the 60 districts?

Travellera17 Dec 2020 12:46 a.m. PST

Found a map of the 60 districts :)

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and Rue de Montreuil is in district no 44 which is Saint Gervais. If this is true, the next challenge emerges….

The most prominent National Guard battaliions attacking the TUileries Palace were not from Paris but from Marseille and Brest. I have no clue where to find their colours… any ideas out there?

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