Marian’s Reviews > The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution > Status Update

"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?"