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On the night of June 20–21, 1791, King Louis XVI and his family tried to emigrate from France, where the French Revolutionaries had held them as privileged captives in the Tuileries palace. Frustrated by his narrowing power and many perceived indignities, Louis set out for the northeast border of France, where he expected to cross from Montmédy into the arms of a gathering émigré army. But the Revolutionaries stopped him in Varennes and carried him and his family back.1
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Nicholas Roe cites “HO 42/41. Domestic Correspondence George III, June–Dec. 1797”; Roe, Wordsworth, 249–50.
Matthew Bray argues that Smith’s children’s book Minor Morals (1798) “opposes the idea that physical barriers between nations should carry any ideological significance”; “Anglo-Saxon Yoke,” 155. Smith’s geographical inscription, strategic and polemical as it is, precedes what Edward Soja has described as the nineteenth-century turn to foundationalist ideas of “the concrete and subjective meaning of human spatiality”; Postmodern Geographies, 79. Although no post-moderns themselves, Smith and many of her contemporaries recognized, as Soja and other postmodern geographers would recognize later, that “the organization and meaning of space is a product of social translation, transformation, and experience”; Soja, Postmodern Geographies, 80. For other evidence that Smith uses place names for strategic purposes, see Harries, “‘Left Field,’” 466. See Wiley, Romantic Geography, for discussion of Wordsworth’s similar geographical sense, likely influenced by Smith, whom Wordsworth met in November, 1791, and whose poem The Emigrants he likely read between May, 1793, and May, 1794; Moorman, William, 1.170 and Wu, Wordsworth’s Reading, 1770–1799, 128.
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Wiley, M. (2008). Introduction: Deposing, Disposing, Dispositioning. In: Romantic Migrations. Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611207_1
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