Louis-Philippe, faced with the difficult choice of…

Louis-Philippe, faced with the difficult choice of either unleashing the army, which would mean a bloodbath, or appeasing the demonstrators, replaces the hated Guizot with Count Louis-Mathieu Molé; the following day.

That evening, an army unit guarding Guizot's official residence clashes with a mob of demonstrators, some forty of whom die in the fusillade.