A first-person narrative pieces together eyewitness testimony and memoirs to follow a royal flight and its consequences, tracing how a single arrest inflames political divisions and accelerates revolutionary change. The account moves through meetings of clubs and popular assemblies, episodes of street violence and political theatre, the trial and execution of the sovereign, the Reign of Terror and its mass executions, and the fall of leading revolutionaries. Alongside chronicle-like chapter vignettes, the work reflects on shifting loyalties, the sway of public passion over private ties, and the human toll exacted by rapid, radical upheaval.