Dear God, Pity These Poor People

I'm working on a (prospective) TL where the course of the events of the French Revolution run a little differently, and I was hoping that some people who know more about the period can help.

The POD for my TL is April 18 1791, where Louis was prevented from leaving Paris to celebrate Easter at Saint-Cloud. The National Assembly (or whoever it was) decide to let him go to Saint-Cloud (albeit, under heavy guard). On the way back from Saint-Cloud, as the royal carriage re-enters Paris, a pro-Republican man shoots at the royal coach. His bullets hit the King and Madame Elisabeth, as well as wounding Madame Royale.

On the arrival at the Tuileries, Louis XVI and Elisabeth hold on for several hours, long enough for the moderates to push in a document for a regency council, appointing one of their own as the new tutor for the Dauphin, as well as barring the Queen, or any of the king's brothers in exile (I'm not sure when the law was passed) from exercising power on behalf of the boy-king. The king and Madame Elisabeth then die shortly thereafter.

How will Antoinette react to this? Though it's not too much of a worry, since she probably won't live much longer than she did OTL given that she suffered from uterine cancer before she died. Is Philippe Egalité really the radical you would want as Regent? Or is there someone else available?
 
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