{"id":5371,"date":"2017-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/la-fuite-de-varennes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:53","slug":"la-fuite-de-varennes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/la-fuite-de-varennes\/","title":{"rendered":"La fuite de Varennes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/varennes_citations.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"652\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation citation-small\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Ce sont les femmes qui ont ramen\u00e9 le roi \u00e0 Paris, et ce sont les hommes qui l\u2019ont laiss\u00e9 \u00e9chapper\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb\u202f<span id=\"1387\" class=\"cit-num\">1387<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Cri de protestation des femmes de Paris, 21\u00a0juin 1791<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Les 50 mots clefs de la R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise<\/cite> (1983), Michel P\u00e9ronnet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Allusion faite aux journ\u00e9es r\u00e9volutionnaires des 5 et 6 octobre 1789. Le 21 juin au matin, on constate la disparition de la famille royale, au palais des Tuileries. L\u2019alerte est donn\u00e9e, La Fayette, commandant de la garde nationale, envoie des courriers tous azimuts pour arr\u00eater les fuyards. Et Paris est en \u00e9moi.<\/p>\n<p>Le 20 juin, \u00e0 minuit, la famille royale a donc fui, avec la complicit\u00e9 du comte su\u00e9dois Axel de Fersen, amant de la reine. Leur but\u00a0: rejoindre \u00e0 Metz la garnison royaliste du marquis de Bouill\u00e9, pour se placer sous sa protection. Mais la berline royale, conduite par Fersen en cocher, est trop imposante, l\u2019op\u00e9ration mal organis\u00e9e, et le roi, d\u00e9guis\u00e9 en valet, est reconnu le 21 \u00e0 Sainte-M\u00e9nehould (en Champagne) par Jean-Baptiste Drouet, le fils du ma\u00eetre des postes \u2013 qui pr\u00e9c\u00e8de le roi \u00e0 Varennes, et donne l\u2019alerte. En 1791, Drouet d\u00e9clare devant l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Je crus reconno\u00eetre la reine\u00a0; et apercevant un homme dans le fond de la voiture \u00e0 gauche, je fus frapp\u00e9 de la ressemblance de sa physionomie avec l\u2019effigie d\u2019un assignat de 50 livres\u00a0\u00bb. Histoire vraie ou l\u00e9gende b\u00e2tie par la suite pour s\u2019attribuer la gloire de l\u2019arrestation\u00a0? Difficile, encore aujourd\u2019hui, de trancher\u00a0!<\/p>\n<p>Bayon, aide de camp de La Fayette, arrive \u00e0 Varennes au matin du 22 juin. La berline royale est reconduite \u00e0 Paris sous escorte, rejointe par trois d\u00e9put\u00e9s\u00a0: P\u00e9tion, Barnave et Latour-Maubourg, envoy\u00e9s par l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>Paris crie \u00e0 la trahison. Le plan de Louis <span class=\"caps\">XVI<\/span> n\u2019est que trop clair. Il voulait marcher sur Paris avec les troupes royalistes, renverser l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e, mettre fin \u00e0 la R\u00e9volution et restaurer la monarchie absolue. Il faut \u00e9viter l\u2019\u00e9meute, on colle un peu partout des affiches avec ce mot d\u2019ordre\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Celui qui applaudira le Roi sera b\u00e2tonn\u00e9, celui qui l\u2019insultera sera pendu.\u00a0\u00bb Toute manifestation est donc interdite, pour ou contre le roi et sa famille, qu\u2019on ram\u00e8ne de Varennes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\r\n        a .cit-num {\r\n            text-decoration: none !important;\r\n            color: inherit !important;\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0Ce sont les femmes qui ont ramen\u00e9 le roi \u00e0 Paris, et ce sont les hommes qui l&#8217;ont laiss\u00e9 \u00e9chapper\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb1387 Cri de protestation des femmes de Paris, 21\u00a0juin 1791 Les 50 mots clefs de la R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise (1983), Michel P\u00e9ronnet. Allusion faite aux journ\u00e9es r\u00e9volutionnaires des 5 et 6 octobre 1789. 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