In fact, it is reminiscent of another story of escape: the flight to Varennes. This was Louis XVI’s failed attempt to escape revolutionary France with his family — the king disguised as a woman.

But nothing of the sort happened. On the contrary, it was reaction that triumphed definitely a few weeks after the King's flight to Varennes, and the middle classes handed over to royalty a new patent ...

The Marie-Thérèse purple-pink diamond, a 10.38 carat stunner, fetched a record $13.98 million at Christie's Magnificent Jewels auction.

The special topic today will be "The Flight to Varennes" and will be illustrated by about 80 stereopticon slides, including views of the principal buildings of Paris and political caricatures.

--No history of the French Revolution is more widely read than Carlyle's, and no part of that history is better known than his account of the flight to Varennes.

The royals’ reputation plummeted in the wake of their so-called Flight to Varennes. As the public realized that Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, ...

View The return from flight Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the Dauphin, Dauphiness, and Princess Elizabeth insulted by the mob on their road back to Paris after their interception at Varennes by the ...

There, the King, being openly recognised by a judge residing at Varennes, was compelled to abandon, his character of servant to “Madame Korff” (the passport obtained for the Queen from the Russian ...

The royals’ reputation plummeted in the wake of their so-called Flight to Varennes. As the public realized that Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, ...