482. The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Twelve months after the dramatic Women’s March on Versailles, the Revolution proper was well into its stride, and while Paris overflowed with a sense of unbridled political freedom, the King and Queen were little more than prisoners in their echoing palace. For the past year Louis XVI had feigned cooperation with the National Assembly, all the while torn by his profound Catholicism and frozen by indecision about how to overcome his predicament. Then at last, following a traumatic experience over the easter of 1791, something changed and the contingency plan formulated several months earlier, was put into action. With the help of a disguised Axen Von Fersen, the royal couple and their children would flee to Belgium in an enormously ostentatious carriage. The date for their escape was set for the 20th of June, but before leaving Louis poured his hatred of the revolution into a letter, which if found would surely spell his political doom…that night the royal family, replete with accomplices, deceptions and disguises, set their audacious plan into action. What ensued was a heart-racing cat-and-mouse thriller of near misses, foolhardy naivety and extraordinary encounters, with appalling consequences… Join Dominic and Tom for the thrilling conclusion to their astounding series on the early years of the French Revolution. With the King and Queen of France on the run from the nightmare their lives have become, will they make it across the border to freedom? Or, will they get caught and devoured by the ravenous hoards of the Revolution? _______ *The Rest Is History LIVE in the U.S.A.* If you live in the States, we've got some great news: Tom and Dominic will be performing throughout America in November, with shows in San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and New York. *The Rest Is History LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall* Tom and Dominic, accompanied by a live orchestra, take a deep dive into the lives and times of two of history’s greatest composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Tickets on sale now at TheRestIsHistory.com _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.6	and guilty aristocrats have led. They have abused the weakness of the king to
1:25.4	advise him to undertake so pernicious a deed. For their own selfish interests and
1:31.4	the vengeance of their pride, they have exposed the Patry to the horrors of the most
1:37.1	murderous civil war, the king whom they say they love to the loss of his crown and all his family to the most
1:46.4	frightful consequences. They have been undone as they always will be and their criminal efforts will come down on their heads.
1:55.0	I won't complain of that. They deserve their fate.
1:59.0	But the king, what humiliation.
2:05.0	So that was the Marquis de Ferrier,
2:06.7	Dominic who we heard from in the previous episode.
2:09.6	He was the aristocratic deputy at the National Assembly, and that is a letter that he wrote to his wife
2:16.4	describing one of the most dramatic episodes in European history namely the attempt by
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