 On 1 October 1789 the officers of the "Garde"' hosted a banquet to welcome their colleagues of the "Régiment de Flandre" line infantry regiment of the Royal Army, which had been brought to Versailles to replace the disbanded French Guards ("Gardes Francais").The latter regiment had joined in the attack on the Bastille six weeks before.The banquet was reported in Paris as a royalist provocation and an angry crowd of thousands marched on Versailles.