We have mentioned the date of April, 1791.
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.