Bab 40: Flight to Varennes

After the resounding echoes of the Women's March to Versailles subsided, the King and his family were unceremoniously escorted back to the heart of Paris. The grandeur of their former abode had given way to the suffocating confines of the Tuileries Palace, where they found themselves imprisoned under an ominous house arrest.

In the face of an inexorable tide turning against him, the King realized that his very survival depended on escaping the clutches of the revolutionaries who held France in an iron grip. A glimmer of hope flickered in his weary eyes as his wife proposed a daring plan - one that would require him to seek refuge beyond the borders of his own kingdom.

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Two years later. June 20, 1791, in the Tuileries Palace.

Moonlight spilled through the ornate windows of the chamber, casting ethereal shadows upon the opulent furnishings. Within this hallowed sanctuary, the royal family of France prepared for their audacious escape.