generate questions: The red flag appeared as a political symbol during the French Revolution, after the fall of Bastille. A law adopted by the new government on October 20, 1789 authorized the Garde Nationale to raise the red flag in the event of a riot, to signal that the Garde would imminently intervene. During a demonstration on the Champs de Mars on July 17, 1791, the Garde Nationale fired on the crowd, killed up to fifty people. The government was denounced by the more radical revolutionaries. In the words of his famous hymn, the Marseillaise, Rouget de Lisle wrote: "Against us they have raised the bloody flag of tyranny!" (Contre nous de la tyrannie, l'entendard sanglant est leve). Beginning in 1790, the most radical revolutionaries adopted the red flag themselves, to symbolize the blood of those killed in the demonstrations, and to call for the repression of those they considered counter-revolutionary.
After the demise of what was the red flag linked to the French Revolution? {sep_token} On what date was the Garde Nationale empowered to hoist a red flag to signal their intervention in a riot? {sep_token} On what date did the Garde Nationale kill as many as fifty people on Champs de Mars? {sep_token} Who wrote the words "Against us they have raised the bloody flag of tyranny?" {sep_token} In what year did the most ardent revolutionaries in France adopt a red flag to symbolize the blood of their fallen comrades? {sep_token}