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King suspected at posting station

Bourbon, Louis Auguste · Sainte-Menehould · King Louis XVI

Louis XVI was suspected of traveling incognito while the carriage halted at Sainte-Menehould. The identification risk undermined a plan whose success depended on reaching loyal troops before an alarm spread.

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