Les Deux n'en Font Qu'une (Liberty and Equality)
The Nights of the 12th and 13th July 1789
Historical Events: The King dismisses his Minister of Finance, Necker, and the people are outraged, fearing that the price of bread will rise even higher. Mobs march through the streets pillaging bakers' shops, and the King's guards attack Parisians out for a Sunday afternoon stroll in the Tuileries.
At the Palais-Royal, Camille Desmoulins calls the people to arms. They invade the Invalides, steal weapons stored there and storm the Bastille.
To save his beleaguered printing business from seizure, Restif goes to the money-lender, Monsieur Vilain, to borrow money. He uses the manuscript he is working on - 'The Ideas of an Honest Man for a General Reform of the Laws' - as surety. On his way to Vilain's he is surprised to see men forging weapons which they say are to arm the people.
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