Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart

Louis XVI of France made him one of the commissaries charged with reconciling the three orders of the Estates General.

The threat to go to war with their hosts, the Rheinish Electors, sufficed to have the émigré armies ordered to disband.

That possibility was welcomed by the Assembly and de Lessart could do little to prevent it (He did send Talleyrand to London in January 1792 to seek English neutrality if not support).

The Assembly resented de Lessart's cautious - some said treasonable - approach and on 1 March voted to have him impeached.

He was transferred to the High Court at Orléans and after 10 August 1792 the trial of prisoners by the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris was decided upon.