Abstract
This description of Louis XVI by the journalist Camille Desmoulins was written not on January 21, 1793—when the king, then known as citizen Louis Capet, was beheaded—but in 1791 following his flight to Varennes on June 20, an abortive expedition that confirmed suspicions that he was a counterrevolutionary after all. This event marked the break from earlier sentiments that had complimented Louis XVI as the restorer of French liberty and the equal of Louis XII, known as the friend of the people, and Henri IV, usually called father of the French people.
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