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083 The King flees

"Your Majesty, this outfit is so fitting.

The soldiers guarding the city looked like fools, and their king was right in front of him and didn't recognize him, haha."

In a simple carriage, Marie Antoinette, in a good mood, was the official wife of the current king of the Kingdom of France, and joked to the little fat man sitting opposite him.

Now that everyone has disguised themselves from the cage of Paris, Mary feels that she is truly a bird that can fly.

After the carriage left Paris, hundreds of Swiss mercenaries had already been arranged outside quickly to meet with the carriage, which greatly increased Queen Mary's sense of security.

However, Louis XVI, who was sitting opposite Mary, looked at the wilderness outside the window with a cautious expression.

After Mary noticed that her husband's expression was not right, she comforted her: "Your Majesty, don't worry, we are close to the border, and when we reach the Austrian army, we will be able to obtain real security. At that time, the rebels in Paris will be subject to a sacred ruling!"

After Mary said this, she silently added to her heart - the hateful Earl of Provence, the sinister villain who only knows how to take advantage of the situation, will not end well!

The Earl of Provence was Louis XVI's younger brother, so Mary did not say this. Even when Mary asked for the noble party led by the Earl of Provence and wanted them to help him and Louis XVI escape, she was sold to the constitutional monarchy without hesitation by the aristocratic party led by the Earl of Provence!

If it weren't for the betrayal of these Louis XVI's relatives and nobles, Mary and Louis XVI could have escaped from the cage of Paris a year ago.

"Is that Valen?"

Louis XVI asked, pointing to a prosperous town far outside the window.

When Mary saw this, her face turned solemn and ordered the Swiss mercenaries outside to bypass the town in front.

At this moment, a group of horse-riding militia suddenly rushed out of the town. After seeing the convoy and the Swiss mercenaries with live ammunition, these people immediately turned their heads. Louis XVI's face changed drastically after seeing this scene, and shouted to the groom outside at the top of his lungs:

"Run quickly!"

As soon as Louis XVI finished speaking, hundreds of militias with muskets, or local security forces, rushed out of the town. There were dozens of horse-riding militias. The horse-riding militias quickly intercepted Louis XVI and his team of people and horses with muskets, and skillfully turned over and dismounted.

Then they were arranged in two loose rows of guns in a row, pointing the muzzle at the carriage where Louis XVI was speeding up and the Swiss mercenaries around the carriage.

"Put down your weapons and stop moving forward or we'll shoot!"

There was a blockage in front and a pursuer behind. Driven by the strong desire to survive, the coachman driving the carriage instinctively stopped the pack horse and began to slow down...

As for Louis XVI's angry roar in the rear car, it was completely ignored.

Hundreds of Swiss mercenaries, looking at the growing number of gun-carrying militias and the sounds of boiling in the towns in the distance, knew that there must be more armed personnel coming here. If they fired at this time, they would undoubtedly lose!

And the bullet has no eyes. What if it hits the king in the car?

The smile on Mary's face had long disappeared, her whole body trembled like a sieve. Before Louis XVI could speak, she was the first to shout to the Swiss mercenaries outside: "Don't shoot and cause a fight!"

Mary's words immediately gave these Swiss mercenaries a step forward. They didn't want to fight a battle that would be defeated here, and that would be dead!

Soon, these Swiss mercenaries were disarmed, and the Louis XVI and his family in the carriage were naturally identified...

On June 20, 1791, the citizens of Paris were angry. The main road leading to the palace of Paris was filled with shouting Parisian citizens. They were yelling at Louis XVI, who were guarded heavily in the center. Although they did not wear chains, they were no different from prisoners, and were yelling insults.

The citizens of Paris feel that they have been deceived and betrayed!

They did not try to overthrow their king, but their king fled Paris and headed to the foreign army camp on the border.

This is a typical treacherous lord!

The members of the Jacobin Club took this opportunity to incite the will of the people. Even though Louis XVI and his family were escorted into the palace in Paris (not Versailles) and were under house arrest, the angry Parisian citizens still marched and demonstrated in front of the parliament gate, and many Parisian citizens also took out muskets that they had obtained from somewhere during the Revolution.

In the parade, gunfire can be heard from time to time!

The anger of the Parisian citizens immediately frightened the ruling constitutional monarchies, fearing that these weapons-based Parisian citizens would have another revolution, and they would not even dare to mobilize their troops to suppress the angry people!

Because the National Self-Defense Force, one of the two major military organizations in Paris, is the source of the soldiers of the Paris citizen class. If the National Self-Defense Force is mobilized to suppress the Paris citizens, it is estimated that the National Self-Defense Force will immediately turn the gun...

The regular army mobilized to suppress Parisian citizens will trigger a civil war in Paris!

The most important thing is that even the regular army has many soldiers with lower-level sympathy for Parisian citizens, and even they have Parisian household registration...

These mobs really can't afford to offend them.

In the following days, Jacobin and other parties representing public opinion launched a group of attacks and confronted the constitutional monarchies. The dominant constitutional monarchies in the Paris Parliament fell into decline for the first time due to the king's escape.

As a last resort, the constitutional monarchy had to compromise with other parties, strictly stipulated the king's rights and sent people to supervise the king's diet and daily life to prevent the king's family from escaping again.

Because the constitutional monarchy is still very powerful, and most nobles do not want the French Kingdom to become the French Republic, King Louis XVI and his family can still enjoy the treatment the king deserves, and even hold some administrative power.

However, the crucial legislative and judicial power was taken away by the Constitutional Assembly.

Not long after, the Constitutional Assembly, which was dominant in the Constitutional Monarchy, was banned, and the Legislative Council became the highest political power center of the Kingdom of France, surpassing the king!

The French Kingdom has truly achieved the law greater than the king!

The promotion of separation of powers began to be carried out in the Paris government, and the Legislative Assembly quickly returned the judicial power to the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of France.

Since then, administrative rights belong to the king, legislative rights belong to the Legislative Assembly, judicial rights belong to the Supreme Court of the Kingdom, and the Kingdom of France has initially completed the political system of separation of powers.

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