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I've been on AH.com for a few months now and after reading a some excellent timelines have desided to make my own. I know next to nothing about this subject and one of the reasons i have set my timeline at this point in time is so i will be forced to learn about it. This is my first timeline so please post any comments or suggestions you have.
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Escape from Tuileries
Escape to Exile by Thomas Phillman
At thirty minutes past ten on 21st of June, 1791 the French royal family made there escape from Tuileries. The plan, concocted by the Count Axel von Fersen and the Baron de Breteuil, was to disguse the childrens governess, the Marquise de Tourzel, as a Russain baroness with both the Queen of France Marie Antoinette and the King’s sister Madame Élisabeth acting as maids and the kings children to play her daughters.
The King, Louis XVI of France, who was intended to play a butler to the Baroness, had a few days before caught a cold and on the day of the escape was bed-ridden. However when his wife attempted to delay the escape Louis insisted that they should go without him for fear that they would miss a chance to escape. He also said that he would follow them at a latter date after he had recovered.
While incredible dangerous for all involved, the Royal family arrived at royalist fortress of Montmédy at two o’clock and where welcomed by Breteuil and Fersen as well as the large amount of royalist supporters.