Location: Jardin du Palais-Royal, 75001 Paris, Paris.
On July 12, 1789, journalist Camille Desmoulins rallied the crowd here, calling for arms and the tricolor cockade (first green, then red-white-blue). This impassioned speech sparked the pre-Bastille agitation that led to the uprising two days later. The Palais-Royal gardens were a hotbed of revolutionary fervor and radical ideas.
Period recorded for this site: 18th century.
Theme: French Revolution.
Coordinates: 48.86370, 2.33760.
This plaque is a stop on the walk: French Revolution: Bastille & Revolutionary Paris.
On French Revolution: Bastille & Revolutionary Paris: Jardin du Palais-Royal where Camille Desmoulins rallied the crowd on July 12, 1789, calling for arms and the tricolor cockade—sparking pre-Bastille agitation.
Other plaques within a few minutes' walk: Palais-Royal Garden (25 m); Siège du Parti républicain radical et radical-socialiste (44 m); Jardin du Palais-Royal (Charade, 1963) (45 m); Théâtre Robert-Houdin (61 m); Palais-Cardinal (103 m).