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Varennes-en-Argonne or simply
Varennes is a city and
commune in the
French département of
Meuse. Population (1999): 691.
It lies on the river
Aire to the northeast of
Sainte-Menehould, near
Verdun.
It was the scene of the
Flight to Varennes: In June
1791 Louis XVI, with his immediate family, made a dash for the nearest friendly border, that of Austrian Belgium (Queen Marie-Antoinette being a sister to the Austrian emperor,
Leopold II). But in Varennes Louis and his family were arrested, by Citizen Drouet, the local postmaster, who had been alerted by a message received from nearby
Sainte-Menehould. It is said that at
Sainte-Menehould , where the escaping party had spent the previous night, a merchant alerted the town authorities of their presence after recognizing the King's face on a coin, as Louis tried to buy something from a shop. Once more France's king, queen, and dauphin (crown prince) returned to the
Tuileries in humiliating captivity, and Louis and Marie-Antoinette were subsequently executed on the guillotine. The dauphin probably died in prison in 1795.
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