Mirabeau himself, bought by the court, had proposed it in his mysterious interviews with the queen.

One of his plans presented to the king was, to escape from Paris, take refuge in the midst of a camp, or in a frontier town, and there treat with the baffled Assembly.

Mirabeau remaining in Paris, and again possessing himself of the public mind, would lead matters, as he declared, to accommodation, and a voluntary restoration of the royal authority.

Mirabeau had carried these hopes away with him into the tomb.
The king himself, in his secret correspondence, testified his repugnance to intrusting his fate into the hands of the ringleader of the factions.
Another cause of uneasiness troubled the king's mind, and gave the queen great anxiety; they were not ignorant that it was a question without, either at Coblentz or in the councils of Leopold and the King of Prussia, to declare the throne of France virtually vacant by default of the king's liberty, and to nominate as regent one of the emigrant princes, in order that he might call around him with a show of legality all his loyal subjects, and give to foreign troops an incontestible right of intervention.

A throne even in fragments will not admit of participation.
An uneasy jealousy still prevailed in the midst of so many other alarms even in this palace, where sedition had already effected so many breaches.