La Nuit de Varennes: Majesté!

La Nuit de Varennes
Ettore Scola

A 18th Century Road Movie!

Jean-Louis Barrault: Restif de la Bretonne
Marcello Mastroianni: Giacomo Casanova
Hanna Schygulla: Countess Sophie de la Borde
Harvey Keitel: Thomas Paine

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As the the King and the Queen of France were being arrested in Varennes (1791), the Countess de La Borde reveals the content of the misterious package she brought from Paris.

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Louis XVI's indecision on how to deal with revolutionary demands was one of the causes of the forcible transfer of the royal family from the Palace of Versailles to the Tuileries in Paris on October 6, 1789 after Versailles had been attacked by an angry mob. Thenceforward the king seems to have become emotionally paralyzed, leaving most important decisions to the politically untrained queen to make on her own.

Prodded by the queen, Louis committed himself and his family to a disastrous attempt to escape from the capital to the eastern frontier on June 21, 1791. With the dauphin's governess, the Marquise de Tourzel taking on the role of a Russian baroness, the queen and the king's sister Madame Élisabeth playing her maids, the king her butler, and the royal children her daughters, the royal family made their escape.

The escape was largely planned by Count Axel von Fersen and the Baron de Breteuil. Due to the cumulative effect of a host of errors which in and of themselves would not have condemned the mission to failure, the royal family was thwarted in its escape when the king was recognized in the town of Sainte-Menehould, by a postmaster named Jean-Baptiste Drouet.

The king and his family were eventually arrested in the revolutionary town of Varennes, not far from their ultimate destination, the heavily fortified royalist citadel of Montmédy. One rumor suggests that the king was recognized because his face appeared on French assignats (or banknotes), though this story's validity is contested.

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[mkervelegan]

»il était mon roi...il était mon idéal, et ma religion...«

[SPACETIMEBEAUTY]

Mais ou est la couronne bleue en tissue???

[SPACETIMEBEAUTY]

Dennis Roland and your perverse country (sick) doll house...and to all you peices of shit New York decorators - you deserved your wallstreet clients who gave you hell - Rydel lol