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
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
Louis XVI
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Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when
Flight to Varennes
…Fuite de 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 Charles, Marie-Thérèse, Madame Royale, and Madame Élisabeth—unsuccessfully attempted to leave Paris for Montmédy…
The young Duke of Berry (right) with his younger brother, the Count of Provence (by François-Hubert Drouais, 1757)
The young duke of Berry painted by Jean-Martial Frédou, c. 1760
Marie Antoinette, queen of France and wife of Louis XVI, with their three eldest children, Marie Thérèse, Louis-Charles and Louis-Joseph (by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1787)