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Louis XVI's justification for his actions during the Flight to Varennes (June 1791) ... The Flight to Varennes served as a major journee because it showed the National Assembly as well as the French people, that Louis XVI could no longer be trusted. While the Assembly had every intention of creating a limited or...
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Fear > The Flight to Varennes ... On the 20 June 1791, Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, their children and closest servants fled Paris in secret, ... Unfortunately for the King, the royal party made it only as far as the small town of Varennes. A man called Drouet, who was a local postmaster, recognized them.
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At the border village of Varennes, he was recognized and eventually apprehended. Word of his attempted flight spread quickly. Crowds lined the street to jeer at him when he was returned to Paris. The King remarked, "There is no longer a King in France."
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The carriage continued unaccompanied to the town of Varennes, where it stopped to get fresh horses. There, a royal postmaster Drouet, who had recognized the King at an earlier stop, caught up to the carriage and had the local prosecutor, Sauce, search it. ... The Flight to Varennes (21–23 June 1791)
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The King and his family were apprehended in Varennes by the National Guard. They had been alerted to the family's whereabouts when a commoner recognized the King from his picture on an assignat (the French unit of currency at that time). ... The Flight to Varenne...
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Count of Fersen ... Departure June 20 ... June 21 stopped at Varennes...
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The calvary had given up and headed to Varennes for the night. Drouet knew he had to do something about the King and his family so he quickly sent for the National Guard. When they arrived, they took the King and his family back to Paris with them (almost as if they were prisoners).
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Flight to Varennes. Discussion about Flight to Varennes. Ecyclopedia or dictionary article about Flight to Varennes. ... The Flight to Varennes (June 20-21, 1791) forms a dramatic, romantic and symbolic event in the history of the French Revolution. The failure of the French royal family to escape abroad ultimately...
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