40,000 badly-armed royalist insurgents began a massive rebellion aiming to capture Toulouse. They controlled
Colomiers and hoped to get into Toulouse by a secondary gate. After initial success in the
battle of Carbonne, the rebellion broke out simultaneously in
Saint-Lys,
Muret,
Montgiscard,
Lanta and
Caraman on the night of 5-6 August. A Republican response by general Rigaud was beaten back at Castanet and
Caraman On the night of 9-10 August, other rebels penetrated to the west of Toulouse into
Blagnac, before retreating towards Colomiers. From his château de Terraqueuse, count
Antoine de Paulo for a time held the towns of
Calmont, Lanta and Caraman.
Nailloux,
Montesquieu, and
Baziège to the southeast of Toulouse also later briefly fell into Royalist hands. The Royalist forces finally had to retreat before Republican forces advancing from
Albi,
Lavaur,
Castelnaudary and the
Ariège. Repulsed from
Pech-David in the
Garonne, then to
l'Isle-Jourdain, they were finally forced to retire towards Spain through the
Aran valley. They successfully took the château de la Terrasse near
Muret, but ultimately were crushed in a bloodbath at the
battle of Montréjeau. The
Comité du souvenir des victimes de la Révolution en Midi toulousain was founded in 2018 to hold an annual commemoration at
Montréjeau. Its patron is prince
Louis de Bourbon ('Louis XX') and it is financially backed by major figures such as
Jean de Viguerie,
Jean Raspail,
Reynald Secher,
Philippe Pichot-Bravard and colonel
Jacques Hogard. == References==