Fall of Paris (Failed Revolutions)

The Fall of Paris or Capture of Paris was a major episode in the Second Franco-Prussian War on the 22nd of March 1822 when Prussian Troops defeated the severely depleted French Army under Napoleon Bonaparte near Paris and captured Paris on the same day. King Louis XVI who was assured that Napoleon would defeat the Prussians was captured with his family while Bonaparte and the remnants of the French Army fled to Lyon to reorganize where they established the French Directorate in April 1822.