18th century total war

Chapter 83 The King's Escape

"Your Majesty, this suit fits you too well.

The soldiers guarding the city looked like idiots. Their king was right in front of them, but they didn't even recognize him, haha. "

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

Now that everyone has escaped from the prison in Paris in disguise, Mary feels that she has really let the birds fly.

After the carriage left Paris, a hundred Swiss mercenaries who had already been arranged outside quickly joined the carriage, which greatly increased Queen Mary's sense of security.

However, Louis XVI, who was sitting opposite Mary, kept looking out the window at the wilderness with a cautious expression on his face.

After Mary noticed that her husband's expression was not right, she relieved: "Your Majesty, don't worry, we are already close to the border, and we will be able to obtain real safety when we reach the Austrian army. At that time, those rebels in Paris will receive a divine judgment! "

After Mary finished speaking, she silently added something in her heart——the abominable Earl of Provence, that insidious villain who only knows how to make trouble, will not end well either!

The Earl of Provence is the younger brother of Louis XVI, so Mary did not say this, even though Mary begged the head of the aristocratic party headed by the Earl of Provence, and wanted them to help her and Louis XVI escape, but was led by the Earl of Provence The aristocratic party sold it to the constitutional monarchy party without hesitation!
If it weren't for the betrayal of these relatives and nobles of Louis XVI, Mary and Louis XVI could have escaped from the prison of Paris a year ago.

"Is that Valen over there?"

Louis XVI asked, pointing to a bustling town in the distance outside the window.

When Mary saw it, her face became serious, and she ordered the Swiss mercenaries outside to bypass the town in front of her.

At this moment, a group of horse-riding militiamen suddenly rushed out of the town. After seeing the convoy and the Swiss mercenaries with live ammunition, these people immediately turned their horses. Louis XVI's expression changed drastically after seeing this scene, and he shouted hoarsely to the outside the groom shouted:

"Run!"

As soon as Louis XVI's voice fell, hundreds of militiamen with muskets, or local security forces, rushed out of the town. There were also dozens of mounted militiamen among them. In front of the carriage of Liu and his party, he turned over and dismounted skillfully.

Then they formed two loose rows of guns on the spot, pointing their guns at the Swiss mercenaries around the carriage and the carriage of Louis XVI who was speeding up.

"Drop your weapons and stop advancing, or we'll shoot!"

There was an interception in front, and there were pursuers in the back. Driven by a strong desire to survive, the coachman driving the carriage instinctively stopped the pack horse and began to slow down...

As for the angry roar of Louis XVI in the rear compartment, it was completely ignored.

And hundreds of Swiss mercenaries, seeing more and more militiamen with guns gathering and the sound of boiling in the distant town, knew that there must be more armed men rushing over inside. If they opened fire at this time, they would Undoubtedly defeated!

And the bullet has no eyes, what if it hits the king in the carriage?
The smile on Mary's face had long since disappeared, and she was shaking like a sieve. Before Louis XVI could speak, she took the lead in shouting to the Swiss mercenaries outside: "Don't shoot and start a fight!"

Mary's words immediately gave these Swiss mercenaries a step down. They didn't want to fight a losing battle here, or they would die!

Soon, these Swiss mercenaries were all disarmed, and the Louis XVI family in the carriage was naturally recognized...

On June 1791, 6, the citizens of Paris were angry. The main road from the gate of Paris to the Royal Palace was crowded with shouting Parisians. What's the difference? Louis XVI's family cursed loudly.

The citizens of Paris feel cheated and betrayed!

They did not try to overthrow their king, but his own king was fleeing Paris and heading to the camp of foreign troops on the frontier of Chen Bing.

This is a typical traitor!

Among them, the members of the Jacobin Club took this opportunity to incite the will of the people, even though the Louis XVI family was escorted into the royal palace in Paris (not Versailles) and placed under house arrest, the angry Parisians There were still demonstrations in front of the gate of the Parliament, and many Parisians even took out muskets that they did not know where to get during the Great Revolution.

In the parade, the sound of gunfire firing into the sky can be heard from time to time!

The anger of the citizens of Paris immediately frightened the ruling constitutional monarchists. They were afraid that these armed Paris citizens would have another revolution. They didn't even dare to mobilize the army to suppress the angry people!

Because the National Self-Defense Forces, one of the two major military organizations in the city of Paris, come from the Parisian citizen class as soldiers, and mobilize the National Self-Defense Forces to suppress the citizens of Paris. It is estimated that the National Self-Defense Forces will immediately turn their guns...

And mobilizing the regular army in Paris to suppress the citizens of Paris will trigger a civil war in Paris!

The most important thing is that even in the regular army, there are many low-level soldiers who sympathize with the citizens of Paris, and even the people themselves have Paris household registration...

These mobs really can't be bothered.

In the next few days, Jacobin and other parties representing public opinion launched attacks against the constitutional monarchy faction. The dominant constitutional monarchy faction in the Paris Parliament fell into decline for the first time because of the king's escape.

As a last resort, the constitutional monarchy had no choice but to compromise with other parties, strictly stipulating the king's rights and sending people to supervise the king's diet and daily life, so as to prevent the king's family from fleeing abroad again.

Because the power of the constitutional monarchy is still very large, and most nobles do not want the French Kingdom to become a French Republic, King Louis XVI's family can still enjoy the treatment due to the king, and even have some administrative power.

It's just that the crucial legislative and judicial powers were taken away by the Constituent Assembly.

Not long after, the Constituent Assembly, the dominant constitutional monarchy party, was banned, and the Legislative Assembly became the highest center of political power in the Kingdom of France, above the king!
In the Kingdom of France, the real meaning is that the law is greater than the king!
The proposal of separation of powers began to prevail in the Paris government, and the Legislative Assembly soon returned judicial power to the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of France.

Since then, executive power has belonged to the king, legislative power has belonged to the Legislative Assembly, and judicial power has belonged to the Supreme Court of the Kingdom. The Kingdom of France initially completed the political system of separation of powers.

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