Louis XVI.
sent the Count de Fersen secretly to him, in order to disclose his real motives in accepting the constitution, and to entreat him not to provoke, by any preparation of arms, the bad feelings of the Revolution, which seemed to be quieted by its triumph.
The emigrant princes, on the contrary, filled all courts with the words uttered in favour of their cause in the declaration of Pilnitz.

They wrote a letter to Louis XVI., in which they protested against the oath of the king to the constitution, forced, as they declared, from his weakness and his captivity.

The king of Prussia, on receiving the circular of the French cabinet, in which the acceptance of the constitution was notified, exclaimed, "I see the peace of Europe assured!" The courts of Vienna and Berlin feigned to believe that all was concluded in France by the mutual concessions of the king and the Assembly.

They made up their minds to see the throne of Louis XVI.
abased, provided that the Revolution would consent to allow itself to be controlled by the throne.
Russia, Sweden, Spain, and Sardinia were not so easily appeased.
Catherine II.

and Gustavus III., the one from a proud feeling of her power, and the other from a generous devotion to the cause of kings, arranged together, to send 40,000 Russians and Swedes to the aid of the monarchy.