The Uprising of June 20, i'jg2 7 



One aim at least of this movement was to bring the king to 

 Paris and so withdraw him from the influence of both the court 

 party and the moderates in the assembly.^ This plan having been 

 successfully carried out, again it was believed that the king's 

 resistance to the revolution would cease. 



But his change of residence did not effect a change of the king's 

 purpose and his resistance only sought a new channel. Neither 

 open force nor passive resistance had been able to prevent the 

 abolition of privilege, the promulgation of a declaration of rights, 

 nor the establishment of the bases of a constitution. To his policy 

 of bad faith, to which he still adhered, the king now added a new 

 policy of foreign intervention. He appealed to the powers of 

 Europe to aid him in his attempt to render futile the efforts of the 

 French people to establish a constitution.^** Marie Antoinette was 

 in constant communication with the Emperor Leopold and was 

 .even more bitter than the king against the revolution. She had 

 no intention of abiding by the constitution and it was understood 

 that her influence controlled the court.^^ So far did the king carry 

 this double-dealing as to accept publicly the constitution which he 

 was secretly plotting to destroy. In the speech delivered before 

 the assembly, February 4, 1790, he proclaimed his attachment to 

 the new order of things, promised to defend and maintain the 

 constitution, and to train the dauphin to follow in his footsteps as 

 a constitutional ruler.^- It was this long course of dissimulation 

 and international intrigue, entered upon both by Louis and his 

 queen, that led to their ruin.^^ 



The attempted flight of the royal family June 21, 1791, rendered 

 certain what up to that time had been a matter of suspicion. The 

 duplicity of the king was laid bare before the eyes of all France. 



* Stoddard, " The Causes of the Insurrection of the 5th and 6th of 

 October," 38-47. 



^"Cambridge Modern History, VIII, 215; Flammermont, Negociations 

 secretes, 5-9. 



" Sorel, L'Eiirope et la revolution frangaise, II, 436; Clapham, Causes 

 of the War of 1792, Chap. II, also go, 190. 



^^ Moniteur, III, 297. 



^ Clapham, Causes of the War of 1792, 24-27. 



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