The Marquis de Bullion (died 1789) was a nobleman of the Kingdom of France. Oppressive to the poor people of the city of Paris, Bullion was killed in the storming of the Jardin du Luxembourg, thrown out a window and beheaded in one of the first incidents of anti-aristocratic violence during the French Revolution.
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The Marquis de Bullion was the owner of a large mansion in the Jardin du Luxembourg (Luxembourg Garden) in the French capital of Paris, and he hated the poor people of the city. The Marquis de Bullion hoarded food during a major famine, and the people of Paris demanded justice for his crimes against the average man. In 1789, while having a ball with several uppercrust nobles of the city, his mansion was assaulted by the peasants, led by Arno-Victor Dorian, who instigated the crowd to storm the palace after killing Captain Urbain Minard at the front gate. A vase was thrown through a palace window and killed an elderly lady who was giving a speech about how all was well inside the palace, and Bullion attempted to flee as French troops rushed into the palace. Bullion was cornered as his guards were killed and as chaos reigned, and he pleaded for mercy from the rioters. Instead, he was thrown from a window to his death - the angry crowd beat on his palpitating body and proceeded to cut his head off and mount it on a pike. His death was one of the events which set off the French Revolution, which overthrew King Louis XVI of France and resulted in the purge of the priests, nobles, generals, officers, royalist sympathizers, and non-revolutionary citizens.