It will also be borne in mind that in compliance with the instructions of M.de Bouille, M.de Choiseul and M.de Guoguelas, who, with the detachment of fifty hussars, were to await the king at Pont Sommeville, and then follow in his rear, had not awaited him nor followed him.

Instead of reaching Varennes at the same time as the king, these officers on leaving Pont Sommeville had taken a road that avoids Sainte Menehould, and thus materially lengthens the distance between Pont Sommeville and Varennes.

Their object in this was to avoid Sainte Menehould, in which the passage of the hussars had created some excitement the day previous.

The consequence was, that neither M.de Guoguelas, nor M.de Choiseul, these two guides and confidants of the king's flight, were at Varennes on his arrival, nor did they reach there until an hour after.

The carriages had stopped at the entrance of Varennes.