Hi to all the members!...because I loved this time of history and specially about Queen Marie Antoinette and her tragic end, I decided to made this thread with the possibility about the flight of Varennes being successful.
Note: I added in this thread the two children of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette who died in infancy.
Varennes-en-Argonne, 21 June 1791:
Once the royal family and his entourage arrived to the town of Varennes, the population became widely suspicious. Not long after they were recognized and voices began to demanded their return to Paris.....
Louis XVI, unable to made a serious decision about to return or wait, was pushed in all ways.
Marie Antoinette, with two of her children gravelly ill: the Dauphin Louis Joseph (aged 9) with constant attacks of fever and unable to walk, and Mademoiselle Marie Sophie (aged 5), a extremely large child who suffered with bouts of epilepsy and also had attacks of fever, was worried about the perilous return trip would killed them, so she decided to play her last card....
Putting under her knees to the Major of Varennes, the Queen and Madame Elisabeth (sister of the King) begged him to let them stay in the bourgeois house assigned to them until their return, at least to the morning of 22 June.
"Please Monsieur! the life of my children are in your hands!...I'm not asking you as a Queen, but as a mother, if they died, their blood are in your hands!!" say Marie Antoinette to the Major.
Convinced by his own wife and despite the bitter and even violent opposition of the population, the major agreed and they could spend one more night at Varennes.
22 June:
Just as the Queen though, the royal troops of the Marquis François Claude de Bouillé, arrived to Varennes in the first hours of 22 June.
Inmediately, Marie Antoinette (who was watching for a window during all the night hoping this miracle) woke up and hurriedly dressed her children, with the help of Madame Elisabeth and the faithful Princess of Lamballe.
Louis XVI, shocked by the attitude of his consort, now see the real intention of her: she knew that waiting only a few hours they must be saved...and this exactly happened.
The troops of Bouillé surrounded all the town of Varennes and watched all suspicious attitude. In the meanwhile, the General-Marquis talk to the King:
"Sire, we must be move quickly from this town if must be save the Monarchy!" exclaimed with his customary energy and ruthlessness.
Claude Antoine Gabriel, Duc de Choiseul-Stainville, colonel of Dragoons and firm royal, also arrived to the town. He discretely followed the King and his family in his flight and was stopped a few miles away by a group of republicans. Now with both troops there, Louis XVI felt secure enough to made a decision.
The King, the Queen and their family and entourage took their carriage and left Varennes surrounded by the troops of Bouillé and Choiseul-Stainville, in the middle of insults and screams of the population. Inmediately after their departure, the Major of Varennes and his family were killed by the population, under the accusation to left escape the Autrichienne and her family.
Without stopped in any other part, the royal family arrived to the fortress of Montmédy one hour later (11 a.m.)
Now, the counter-revolution must began.....
TO BE CONTINUED......
Note: I added in this thread the two children of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette who died in infancy.
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Varennes-en-Argonne, 21 June 1791:
Once the royal family and his entourage arrived to the town of Varennes, the population became widely suspicious. Not long after they were recognized and voices began to demanded their return to Paris.....
Louis XVI, unable to made a serious decision about to return or wait, was pushed in all ways.
Marie Antoinette, with two of her children gravelly ill: the Dauphin Louis Joseph (aged 9) with constant attacks of fever and unable to walk, and Mademoiselle Marie Sophie (aged 5), a extremely large child who suffered with bouts of epilepsy and also had attacks of fever, was worried about the perilous return trip would killed them, so she decided to play her last card....
Putting under her knees to the Major of Varennes, the Queen and Madame Elisabeth (sister of the King) begged him to let them stay in the bourgeois house assigned to them until their return, at least to the morning of 22 June.
"Please Monsieur! the life of my children are in your hands!...I'm not asking you as a Queen, but as a mother, if they died, their blood are in your hands!!" say Marie Antoinette to the Major.
Convinced by his own wife and despite the bitter and even violent opposition of the population, the major agreed and they could spend one more night at Varennes.
22 June:
Just as the Queen though, the royal troops of the Marquis François Claude de Bouillé, arrived to Varennes in the first hours of 22 June.
Inmediately, Marie Antoinette (who was watching for a window during all the night hoping this miracle) woke up and hurriedly dressed her children, with the help of Madame Elisabeth and the faithful Princess of Lamballe.
Louis XVI, shocked by the attitude of his consort, now see the real intention of her: she knew that waiting only a few hours they must be saved...and this exactly happened.
The troops of Bouillé surrounded all the town of Varennes and watched all suspicious attitude. In the meanwhile, the General-Marquis talk to the King:
"Sire, we must be move quickly from this town if must be save the Monarchy!" exclaimed with his customary energy and ruthlessness.
Claude Antoine Gabriel, Duc de Choiseul-Stainville, colonel of Dragoons and firm royal, also arrived to the town. He discretely followed the King and his family in his flight and was stopped a few miles away by a group of republicans. Now with both troops there, Louis XVI felt secure enough to made a decision.
The King, the Queen and their family and entourage took their carriage and left Varennes surrounded by the troops of Bouillé and Choiseul-Stainville, in the middle of insults and screams of the population. Inmediately after their departure, the Major of Varennes and his family were killed by the population, under the accusation to left escape the Autrichienne and her family.
Without stopped in any other part, the royal family arrived to the fortress of Montmédy one hour later (11 a.m.)
Now, the counter-revolution must began.....
TO BE CONTINUED......