Flight to Varennes
June 20, 1791
Disguised as servants, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette slipped out of the Tuileries at midnight in a lumbering coach, heading for loyal troops on the eastern frontier. A postmaster in Varennes recognized the king from a coin. They were brought back to Paris in humiliation. The king's credibility as constitutional monarch was gone.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.