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    The Flight to Varennes (French: fuite de Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which the French...
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    Varennes-en-Argonne (French pronunciation: [vaʁɛn ɑ̃.n‿aʁɡɔn], literally Varennes in Argonne) or simply Varennes (German: Wöringen) is a commune in the...
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    she had not known of the Flight to Varennes beforehand and that its purpose had not been to leave the country but only retire to the countryside for the...
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    1789. The June 1791 attempted flight to Varennes and her role in the War of the First Coalition were immensely damaging to her image among French citizens...
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    Louis XVI (category Legitimist pretenders to the French throne)
    224–227 Timothy Tackett, When the King Took Flight (2003) ch. 3 Tackett, Timothy (2003). "The Flight to Varennes and the Coming of the Terror". Historical...
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    the postmaster who recognised Louis on his flight to Varennes and was able to alert the authorities in time to stop them. Marie Antoinette was executed...
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    informed beforehand of the Flight to Varennes. The night of the escape in June 1791, the queen said goodnight to her and advised her to spend some days in the...
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  • Varennes may refer to: Varennes, Quebec Varennes, Winnipeg, a neighbourhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Varennes County, a county established 1881 in...
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    dominated by a struggle for political control. King Louis XVI's attempted flight to Varennes in June 1791 further discredited the monarchy, and military defeats...
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  • That Night in Varennes (Italian: Il mondo nuovo; French: La Nuit de Varennes) is a 1982 French-Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It is based...
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    Léonard-Alexis) accompanied the Duc de Choiseul during the royal family's flight to Varennes. Jean-François Autié probably died in Paris under the guillotine on...
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    Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    for Saint-Cloud where he planned to attend Mass. A plot known as the Flight to Varennes almost enabled the king to escape from France on 20 June 1791...
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  • turned stark white overnight after her capture following the ill-fated flight to Varennes during the French Revolution. An older case of Sir Thomas More's hair...
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  • monarchy over a republic desperately needed him to continue in his role. Even before the Flight to Varennes, the Assembly had determined that they themselves...
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    Jean-Baptiste Drouet (revolutionary) (category Deputies to the French National Convention)
    key role in the arrest of King Louis XVI and his family during the Flight to Varennes. Drouet was born at Sainte-Menehould, in the province of Champagne...
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    orators, closely linked to Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois. After the flight to Varennes of King Louis XVI, he published a pamphlet, L'Acéphocratie (from the...
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    royal family lead in June of 1991 to the failed escape attempt known as the Flight to Varennes. The attempted flight severely damaged any positive public...
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  • Antoinette. She participated in the famous Flight to Varennes, the attempt of the French royal family to leave France during the French Revolution, with...
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  • 1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution. 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The...
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    American Historical Association in 2001; he has also written about the Flight to Varennes and the emergence of the Terror amid the turbulence of the Revolution...
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    came after Louis and his family had unsuccessfully tried to flee France in the Flight to Varennes the month before. Later that day, leaders of the republicans...
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    flight to Varennes, had summoned 300 royalists to enable the former king's escape. Louis was to be hidden in a house in the rue de Cléry belonging to...
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    Pierre-Joseph Cambon (category Deputies to the French National Convention)
    returned to Montpellier, was elected a member of the municipality, co-founded the Jacobin Club in that city, and on the flight to Varennes of King Louis...
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    family on the Flight to Varennes in June 1791; she was sent to her biological father in the country, and returned to the Tuileries when the flight failed and...
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    supposed nymphomania or attempting to beg her to repent and renounce her wicked ways. With the king's failed flight to Varennes, Hébert's tone significantly...
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    royal family to flee to the northeastern fortress of Montmédy, a royalist stronghold, but the attempted flight was intercepted in Varennes, and the family...
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  • of the French Revolution – the storming of the Bastille, the flight to Varennes, the proclamation of the first French Republic, the trial of the king,...
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    Louis XVII (category Legitimist pretenders to the French throne)
    tried to escape in what is known as the Flight to Varennes, but the attempt failed. After the family was recognized, they were brought back to Paris....
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  • common at the time. Zoë was sent away to join her sisters in their boarding school before the Flight to Varennes in 1791. The expenses of the girls stopped...
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    an end to the crisis that had broken out since the prevented flight to Varennes of Louis XVI in June 1791 and the bloody capture of the Tuileries Palace...
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