This is what happened on that date. The King had wished to go to St. Cloud; that was on the Easter Monday. The King, the Queen, the bishops, the servants, filled the carriages in which they were to make the short travel of two leagues; but the people prevented the King from leaving the Tuileries. The King insisted; the tocsin of Saint Roch began to sound an alarm. He leaned back in his carriage; thousands of voices cried, “No, no! He is going to fly!” “I love you too well to leave you!” said the King. “We, also, love you!” replied the spectators, with one voice; “but you alone!” The Queen, shut out from the love of France, wept and stamped; but, for all that, was obliged to re-enter the Tuileries. The King was a prisoner, there was no doubt about it; but it is permitted to a prisoner to escape. From this moment the King prepared for flight. Two other parties were as desirous as the King that he should leave France. The one, the Royalist party, because the King, once free, would be able to re-enter France with a foreign army; the other, the Republican party, because they could not form a republic, without cutting his head off. Therefore, one will perceive that they who arrested the King belonged to a third party—the Constitution. His decision taken, the King began to put it into execution. The Queen was the mainspring of the plot; the princesses of the house of Austria have been invariably evil genii to the Kings of France—Marie de Medicis, Anne of Austria, Marie Antoinette, and Marie Louise. The King might have fled alone, and that was the idea that first occurred to him; in which case he would have travelled on horseback. But, during the terrible night of the 5th of October, the Queen became so frightened, that she made the King swear never to leave France without her and their children. It was then resolved that they should all, King, Queen, and children, fly together. That doubled, trebled, and quadrupled the difficulty, and made escape almost an impossibility. The Queen undertook the deception. The Queen had more interest than the King in leaving France. Hear you that cry of the 18th of April, 1791, which interpreted the feelings of a nation, and which said, “We, also, sire! We love you, _but you alone_!” In January, 1791, the flight was resolved upon. In February, the King wrote to M. de Bouillé:— “I have overtures to make to you on the part of M. Mirabeau. The Count de Lamark will be our intermediate.” He added:— “Although these people are not very estimable, still I have paid M. Mirabeau a good sum of money. I think that he will be useful.” M. de Bouillé replied:— “Cover with gold the defection of Mirabeau. He is an accomplished scoundrel, who will repair, through cupidity, the evil that he has worked through vengeance; but defy Lafayette, enthusiastic, chimerical, capable, perhaps, of being the chief of a party, but incapable of supporting a monarchy.”