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The Life of Marie Antoinette

by Charles Duke Yonge

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Chapter XXIX

Louis and Marie Antoinette contemplate Foreign Intervention.—The Assembly passes Laws to subordinate the Church to the Civil Power.—Insolence of La Fayette.—Marie Antoinette refuses to quit France by Herself.—The Jacobins and La Fayette try to revive the Story of the Necklace.—Marie Antoinette with her Family.—Flight from Paris is decided on.—The Queen’s Preparations and Views.—An Oath to observe the new Ecclesiastical Constitution is imposed on the Clergy.—The King’s Aunts leave France.

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