The world: historical and actual . ut the Revolu-tionary period, plottingfor the defeat of libertyand the reestablishmentof despotism. The king and queenwere very much alarmedby the great could not be whollyblind to the significanceof that destruction. Itcertainly boded no goodto monarchy. The royalfamily retired to Ver-sailles, in the hope ofbeing secure from popu-lar indignation without an abandonment of thethrone. It was a half-way measure and a vast mob, with fishwomen and the likeat the front, marched thither. Emboldened by theroyal flight and aggravate
The world: historical and actual . ut the Revolu-tionary period, plottingfor the defeat of libertyand the reestablishmentof despotism. The king and queenwere very much alarmedby the great could not be whollyblind to the significanceof that destruction. Itcertainly boded no goodto monarchy. The royalfamily retired to Ver-sailles, in the hope ofbeing secure from popu-lar indignation without an abandonment of thethrone. It was a half-way measure and a vast mob, with fishwomen and the likeat the front, marched thither. Emboldened by theroyal flight and aggravated by the journey, theywould have slain the king and queen had it not beenfor the kindly and brave intervention of shielded the king and his household, at the sametime inducing them to return to Paris. He actedin the capacity of a peacemaker between the moband the crown. The king was now a prisoner in his own palace,virtually, and the populace had absolute leveling process begun at the fall of the Bastile. > >-k- 276 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. was rapidly carried to an unprecedented were abolished. The king himself was Citi-zen Louis Capet, and the queen merely a were not even free, but rather prisoners in thepalace of the Tuilleries. In an evil moment the royal couple tried to es-cape, and join the Emigrants beyond the were foiled. Recaptured and in confinement,their condition was pitiable in the extreme. Justone year after the Bastile fell, and in commemora-tion of its fall, the people adopted a was a most important step toward freedom,and would have been even if the constitution hadbeen despotic in character. The bare fact that thepeople had secured an organic law was of the mostserious moment. That constitution compelled theking to swear fealty to it. His attempted flight wasregarded as a violation of his oath. For that un-availing endeavor to flee, the royal household wereimprisoned in
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