DAY STATEMENT On January 20, Garat, Minister of Justice, Lebrun, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Grouvelle, Secretary of the Executive Council, head to the tower where Louis Capet is to announce the decision of the Assembly. There, they meet the mayor of Paris, several municipal judges and Santerre. Garat took the floor and moved goes to him, "Luis, the Convention instructed the Executive Board to notify him of his decree." Grouvelle, read the sentence. Luis listens in silence and surrender to Garat a letter calls within three days to prepare, to see his family and asked his friend the Abbe Edgeworth of Firmont, which accompanies its close. The Convention is at its height in the small term deny pleaded for his former king! However, access to his other requests. The same is the Abbe Edgeworth Garat to Luis. At six o'clock in the afternoon the priest enters the chambers of the King.
Luis speaks a bit and reads his will. Then he asks the cabinet to go through the neighbor to meet his family. Marie Antoinette enters, taking his son by the hand. With it comes the Lady Elizabeth and Lady Royale. Everybody cries.
It is the most painful moment of the royal family. The high point where they look like humans, stripped of all vanity, all title, of any protocol. They know nothing yet, but fear the worst. Louis sits next to the queen and her sister. Her daughter sits in front of him with the baby between her legs.