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During the build up to the French Revolution,Louis XVI summoned around 20,000-30,000 soldiers to Paris and many of these troops were foreign mercenary regiments with most of the soldiers recruited either from Germany or Switzerland.While it is known that the native French soldiers were either unwilling to fight the mob or outright defected to them(like the gardes françaises),what would happen if he ordered the foreign soldiers to do the dirty work instead?
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