20 Jun 1791 Jahr - Royal Family's flight to Varennes

Beschreibung:

- Failed attempt by Louis and his family to escape from revolutionary Paris
- factors behind the king's decision to flee included: his lack of faith in the revolution, lsck of faith in the constitution, his personal religious beliefs, advice from Mirabeau, urging from Marie Antoinette
- escaped was planned by Count Axel Von Fersen, favourite of Marie Antoinette's, planned to sneak the royal family out of Paris to the loyalist stronghold at Montmedy in North-Eastern France
- Encountered several delays = hours behind schedule = contributed to their capture
- Arrested at Varennes, National Assembly took no immediate action, radicals demanded abolition of the monarchy and formation of a republic

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