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.

June 21, 1791 — Royalist plot — Flight to Varennes — Drouet pursues King — Decision of people — Effect of this decision — France without a King — Middle classes recant — Causes of their reaction — ...

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, had no intention of ceding to the ...

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 ...

June 21, 1791 — Royalist plot — Flight to Varennes — Drouet pursues King — Decision of people — Effect of this decision — France without a King — Middle classes recant — Causes of their reaction — ...

Smuggled Out of France During a Bloody Revolution, Marie Antoinette’s Shimmering Pink Diamond Is Heading to Auction The 10.38-carat gemstone, which carries an estimate of $3 million to $5 ...