Still dressed as servants, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are captured in the city of Varennes just one day after leaving, and they are humiliatingly returned to Paris in their servant get-up.

The ruse is discovered and everyone lives happily ever after. They dress up as servants, have their servants dress up as royals, sneak out of their house arrest, and if you've ever read a Shakespeare play, you know what happens next. Blue skies, clean air, no revolutionaries plotting your destruction.' For making this offer, by the way, Bouillé would later be likened to a 'bloodthirsty despot' in the French National Anthem.īut anyway, in July (June) of 1791, Louis and Marie Antoinette decide to ride out for Bouillé's country estate. So this general named Bouillé comes along, and says, 'Listen, come live at my estate in the French countryside. These nobles were called the Emigres, only I'm pronouncing it wrong, because I'm American, and we pronounce everything in American.īy the middle of 1791, Louis and Marie Antoinette were starting to think, 'You know, that Emigres life sounds pretty awesome.' But they couldn't leave France, because they still fancied themselves the king and queen of it. a lot of nobles were starting to take their money and leave France, because being a noble in France, which had once been among the very best jobs in the entire world, was suddenly becoming sort of dangerous and unprofitable. the financial crisis continued, and also 3. the National Assembly was not making anyone less hungry, and 2. We shall skip the year 1790 entirely, except to note that, 1. We now return to the French Revolution, where, at the end of 1789, King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, find themselves under house arrest in Paris, while the French National Assembly is trying to write a constitution. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: In which John Green continues his introduction to the history of the French Revolution, discussing Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette's flight to Varennes, the constituent assembly's attempts to write a constitution of France, France's brief experiment with constitutional monarch, war with Austria and Prussia and then eventually the rest of Europe, and the rise of the French Republic-also guillotines and the use of the guillotine in Revolutionary France.

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