The Royal Family Failed To Escape From France
On the 5th of October 1789, a large crowd of demonstrators, largely women, gathered at Parisian marketplaces to dispute the high cost of bread. The women marched from Paris to Versailles after receiving disappointing responses from city officials. They stormed the palace and demanded that the monarch "live among the people," killing many guards in the process.
The royal family was obliged to return to Paris after the Women's March on Versailles. They were held as virtual captives in the Tuileries, the king's official home. Louis XVI became emotionally immobilized, relying on the queen to make the most crucial decisions. The royal family attempted to flee to Austria on the night of June 20, 1791, dressed as servants with their servants dressed as nobility. On June 21, 1791, at her request, Louis and his family embarked on a disastrous attempt to flee the capital to the eastern boundary. The National Guards were assigned to "guard" the royal family in Paris, thus legitimizing the National Assembly.
The royal family's flight was stopped after Jean-Baptiste Drouet, the postmaster of Sainte-Menehould, recognized the king from his photograph, owing to the cumulative effect of a series of faults that, on their own, would not have resulted in the mission's failure. The monarch and his family were apprehended 31 miles from their final goal, the heavily guarded royalist castle of Montmédy, in the town of Varennes.
