| Day of Daggers | ||||||
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| Part of French Revolution | ||||||
 The disarming of the nobles in the Tuileries Palace on 28 February 1791 | ||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||
| National Guard | Workmen from Faubourg Saint-Antoine | chevaliers du poignard | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||
| Marquis de Lafayette | Antoine Joseph Santerre | |||||
On the Day of Daggers (French: Journée des Poignards), 28 February 1791, hundreds of nobles with concealed weapons such as daggers went to the Tuileries Palace, in Paris, to defend King Louis XVI while Marquis de Lafayette led the National Guard in Vincennes to stop a riot. A confrontation between the guards and the nobles started, as the guards thought that the nobles had come to take the King away. The nobles were finally ordered by the King to relinquish their weapons and were forcibly removed from the palace.