Status Updates From The Glory and the Sorrow: A...

"Everything that went badly for the population and the economy and for the Revolution in general could be attributed to a single all-pervasive conspiracy led by a small group of “aristocrats,” manipulating events from within the royal court and perhaps including the queen, if not the king himself, and in secret coalition with France’s foreign enemies."

"...reports that soldiers, most of them German or Swiss mercenaries, had been pulled back from the French frontiers and were encircling both Paris and Versailles. From letter to letter, Colson’s estimations of the number of troops involved expanded from 6,000 to 40,000, to as many as 100,000. What was their purpose and would they soon invade the city?"

'...everyone cheered with abandon and cries of “long live the King!” after he had attached a tricolored cocarde to his coat and allowed the crowd to festoon the royal carriage with many more of the small colorful badges.'

Realizing I have an embarrassingly juvenile understanding of the French Revolution lol