Feuillant

He took the following view of the situation: The contest had been between the Feuillant patriots favoring a free constitution with an hereditary executive and the Jacobins who thought that expunging that office was an absolute necessity.

The King chose his ministry from the Feuillant Club, notoriously counter-revolutionary.

He was thus led to separate himself from the Jacobins and to join the Feuillant party.

The tactics of the Feuillant advisers brought a revival of popular feeling in favour of the Court, which seemed inconceivable at the epoch of the arrest.

It was the first act of hostility and defiance, and it showed that the king was parting with his Feuillant friends.