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Article: When the King Took Flight.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2006
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When the King Took Flight. By Timothy Tackett. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 270. $15.95.)
In the dead of night on 20 June 1791, King Louis XVI and his family slipped out of revolutionary Paris, hoping to reach the border of the Austrian Netherlands. Recognized by a stablemaster in northeastern France, Louis and Marie-Antoinette were brought back to Paris as prisoners. A crowd of thousands greeted their return with sullen silence. To add insult to injury, prints circulated depicting the king and queen as "fat pigs brought back to the stable." As Timothy Tackett argues, the king's "flight to Varennes" changed the course of the French ...