Declaration of Pillnitz
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The Declaration of Pillnitz was a statement of five sentences issued on 27 August 1791 at Pillnitz Castle near Dresden by Frederick William II of Prussia and the Habsburg Leopold II, Holy Roman Empero
The meeting at Pillnitz Castle in 1791. Oil painting by J. H. Schmidt, 1791.
Flight to Varennes
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The Flight to Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which the French royal family—comprising Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the Dauphin Louis C
Declaration of Pillnitz
…and agitating for foreign support to Louis XVI. After Louis and his family had fled Paris in the hopes of inciting a counter-revolution, known as the Flight to Varennes in June 1791, Louis had been apprehended and was returned to Paris and kept under armed guard. On 6 July 1791, Leopold issued the Padua Circular, calling…
Louis XVI and his family, dressed as bourgeois, arrested in Varennes. Painting by Thomas Falcon Marshall (1854)
Declaration to the French People (June 1791)
The arrest of Louis XVI and his family. Stamp by Jean-Louis Prieur (Musée de la Révolution française)
Drouet recognised the King, perhaps due to his profile on an assignat