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.