Frenchmen, was this the result you looked for from your regeneration?
Your attachment to your king was wont to be reckoned amongst your virtues; this attachment is now changed into hatred, and homage into insult.

From M.Necker down to the lowest of the rabble, every one has been king except the king himself.

Threats have been held out of depriving the king even of this empty title, and of shutting up the queen in a convent.

In the nights of October, when it was proposed to the Assembly to go and protect the king by its presence, they declared it was beneath their dignity to do so.

The king's aunts have been arrested, when from religious motives they wished to journey to Rome.