During the French Revolution, there were many uprisings and riots, many of which were not recorded.

The time described in Les Miserables is very short, just a spray in the whole revolutionary ocean.

On June 2nd, Republicans attacked the government at Evariste Galois's funeral. The famous Republican and the young mathematician died in a duel and planned an uprising.

On June 5, General Lamarck's funeral was held, and the procession of the body was escorted through Paris Avenue and Austerlitz Bridge, with tens of thousands of people watching. Just like the scene in the movie, Republicans took the opportunity to shout slogans against the government and support the Republic, and some people responded.

The funeral turned into a large-scale demonstration. The Republican leader raised the red flag as the flag of the movement, and then the demonstration went out of control. Some demonstrators and the masses clashed with the police, while some troops sent to counter the pressure turned to join the Republican team. The demonstration team moved to Bastille Square, which has special significance and is the location of the bronze statue in the film. After a day of chaos, in the evening, Paris entered the stage of barricade war.

On the evening of June 5th, the government forces under the command of George Mouton defeated most of the insurgents outside Paris, and the insurgents were driven to the old city of Paris.

Similar to the description in novels and movies, the uprising did not develop into a complete Paris uprising, and there was no sign of large-scale defection of the army. Uprising supported only by students' enthusiasm is doomed to failure.

The strength of the two sides is very different. According to the historical data at that time, the number of government troops who suppressed was about 30 thousand, while the number of insurgents was only 3000.

Although the students were fighting, the Marquis of lafayette and other top Republican politicians went into hiding. They felt that the movement was doomed to failure soon after the uprising, so they fled to the surrounding provinces. For another example, lafitte and Odilon Barrow sent representatives to see Louis Philippe on the morning of June 6th, asking him to stop the bloody repression and change his policy.

The final battle between the two sides who held the red flag and the tricolor flag was on the morning of June 6. The national guard and the rebel army fought bloody battles in Clo tre Saint-Merry, and the barricade held by the uprising students was finally broken under the bombardment of artillery. I believe that people who have seen movies and novels will no longer be unfamiliar with this scene. There were about 800 casualties on both sides, including 73 government troops killed and 344 injured, 93 rebels killed and 29/kloc-0 injured.