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 Members of the royal family were increasingly prisoners in their palace . On 18 April , the National Guard disobeyed Lafayette and stopped the king from leaving for Saint @-@ Cloud , where he planned to attend Mass . 

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 On 20 June 1791 , a plot , dubbed the Flight to Varennes , almost allowed the king to escape from France . As leader of the National Guard , Lafayette had been responsible for the royal family 's custody . He was thus blamed by extremists like Danton for the near @-@ escape and called a traitor to the people by Robespierre . These accusations made Lafayette appear a royalist , damaging his reputation in the eyes of the public , and strengthened the hands of the Jacobins and other radicals . Lafayette continued to urge the constitutional rule of law , but was drowned out by the mob and its leaders . 

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 Of the various versions and changes , the 1798 version is the most regular of the editions . The story describes Joan from her first appearance at Vaucouleurs until the Dauphin Charles VII is crowned at Rheims . The rest of the events are described in flashbacks throughout the first half . As the story begins , an 18 @-@ year @-@ old Joan travels to Vaucouleurs , home of Robert de Baudricourt , with her uncle Claude . She arrives searching for the Dauphin and meets Charles Dunois as the general tries to raise troops for France 's defence . He helps her through Lorraine to Chinon while explaining her background and life 's story to the general . She tells of her family , her natural living , and the effects of the soldiers who brought war to France told to her by a French soldier named Conrade . Of these various incidents , the English 's massacring French prisoners at the Battle of Agincourt and the starvation of the people of Rouen during a siege are mentioned . They finally arrive at Chinon where they are able to find the French court . 

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 The rest of the National Constituent Assembly followed the king within two weeks to new quarters in Paris . In short order , the entire body settled in only a few steps from the Tuileries at a former riding school , the Salle du Manège . However , some fifty @-@ six monarchien deputies did not come with them , believing the mob threat in the capital to be personally dangerous . The October journées thus effectively deprived the monarchist faction of significant representation in the Assembly as most of these deputies retreated from the political scene ; many , like Mounier , fled the country altogether . 

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 The loss of this opportunity caused serious discord in the Balzac household , although Honoré was not turned away entirely . Instead , in April 1819 he was allowed to live in the French capital – as English critic George Saintsbury describes it – " in a garret furnished in the most Spartan fashion , with a starvation allowance and an old woman to look after him " , while the rest of the family moved to a house twenty miles [ 32 km ] outside Paris . 
