1789 ⟶ Louis XVI Recognizes Assembly, Orders Military to Paris
June 27: Louis XVI reverses course, instructs the nobility a...
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1789
1791
👑 Louis XVI Recognizes Assembly, Orders Military to Paris
June 27: Louis XVI reverses course, instructs the nobility and clergy to meet with the other estates, and recognizes the new Assembly. At the same time, he orders reliable military units, largely composed of Swiss and German mercenaries, to Paris.⟶
Louis XVINational AssemblyEstates-GeneralPolitical ManeuveringMonarchyMilitary DeploymentMercenariesFrench RevolutionConstitutional Crisis
🗳️ Louis XVI Calls for Estates-General Elections
January 24: King Louis XVI convokes elections for delegates to the Estates-General⟶
French RevolutionLouis XVIEstates-GeneralElectionsPolitical ReformPre-RevolutionMonarchyFrance18th Century
🗣️ Royal Session of June 23: Louis XVI Rejects National Assembly, Mirabeau Defies King
June 23: Louis XVI personally addresses the Estates-General (a Séance royale), where he invalidates the decisions of the National Assembly and instructs the three estates to continue to meet separately. The king departs followed by the Second- and most of the First-Estate deputies, but the Third-Estate deputies remain in the hall. When the king's master of ceremonies reminds them that Louis has invalidated their decrees, the Comte de Mirabeau, Third-Estate deputy from Aix, boldly shouts that "we are assembled here by the will of the people" and that they would "leave only at the point of a bayonet".⟶
French RevolutionEstates-GeneralLouis XVINational AssemblyMirabeauRoyal AuthorityThird EstatePolitical CrisisDeclaration of Independence (implied)Defiance
🇫🇷 King Louis XVI in Paris, Nobility Emigration Begins
July 17: The King visits Paris, where he is welcomed at the Hôtel de Ville by Bailly and Lafayette, and wears the tricolor cockade. Sensing what is ahead, several prominent members of the nobility, including the Count of Artois, the Prince de Condé, the Duke of Enghien, the Baron de Breteuil, the Duke of Broglie, the Duke of Polignac and his wife become the first of a wave of émigrés to leave France.⟶
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👑 King Louis XVI's Arrest at Varennes and Return to Paris
June 21–22: The King is recognized at Varennes. The Assembly announces that he was taken against his will, and sends three commissioners to bring him back to Paris.⟶
French RevolutionMonarchyLouis XVIVarennesRoyal FlightNational AssemblyPolitical CrisisRepublicCounter-Revolution
👑 Louis XVI Suspended by the National Assembly
June 25: Louis XVI returns to Paris. The Assembly suspends his functions until further notice.⟶
Louis XVIMonarchyNational AssemblySuspension of PowersFrench RevolutionLegislative PowerPolitical CrisisConstitutional MonarchyRoyal AuthorityDeposition