His colleagues, MM.

de Lessart and Bertrand de Molleville, saw in him the total overthrow of all their plans.

The king, as usual, was all indecision; one step forward and one backwards; surprised by the event in his hesitation, and thus unable to resist a shock, or himself to give any impulse.
Beside these official councillors, certain constituents not in the Assembly, especially the Lameths, Duport, and Barnave, were consulted by the king.

Barnave had remained in Paris some months after the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly.

He redeemed by sincere devotion to the monarchy the blows he had previously dealt upon it.