The "Garde du Corps" featured conspicuously in several incidents in the opening stages of the French Revolution. 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. During the night of 5 October about 500 members of the crowd broke into the Palace, killing several of the "Gardes du Corps" on duty. Other "Gardes du Corps" held the doors to the royal apartments until grenadiers of the National Guard – mostly former "Gardes Francais" – restored order. The "Garde du Corps" narrowly escaped massacre and, disarmed, was obliged to accompany the Royal Family to Paris. Most of this aristocratic regiment then dispersed to their estates or into exile.