Editing Koblenz (section)

====Home of Royalist émigrés====

When the [[French Revolution]] broke out, Koblenz became a popular hub of royalist émigrés and escaping feudal lords who had fled France.<ref>{{cite book
 | title=The Great French Revolution, 1789–1793
 | chapter=Chapter 4
 | author=Peter Kropotkin
 | year=1909
 | translator=N. F. Dryhurst
 | publisher=New York: Vanguard Printings
 | url=http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=216
}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>  It was sometime in mid-1791, after June but before October, that supporters of loyalty in Koblenz (as well as [[Worms, Germany|Worms]] and [[Brussels]]) were preparing an invasion of France that was to be supported by foreign armies, with conspirators regularly travel between Koblenz and [[Tuileries Palace]], accepting encouragement and money from King [[Louis XVI]], while secret committees were collecting arms and enrolling men and officers.<ref>{{cite book
 | title=The Great French Revolution, 1789–1793
 | chapter=Chapter 30
 | author=Peter Kropotkin
 | year=1909
 | translator=N. F. Dryhurst
 | publisher=New York: Vanguard Printings
 | url=http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=242
}}</ref>  Among the notable émigrés living at Koblenz were Charles, [[Count of Artois]], (future [[Charles X of France|Charles X]]), ex-minister [[Charles Alexandre de Calonne]], and  Louis, [[Count of Provence]] (future [[Louis XVIII]]).  Officers and men were recruited through the Gazette de Paris (sixty [[Livre tournois|livres]] for each recruit), and the enrolled men were then sent to [[Metz]] and afterwards to Koblenz, and in a visit by Claude Allier to Koblenz in January 1792, he stated that 60,000 men were armed and ready to take action.<ref>{{cite book
 | title=The Great French Revolution, 1789–1793
 | chapter=Chapter 31
 | author=Peter Kropotkin
 | year=1909
 | translator=N. F. Dryhurst
 | publisher=New York: Vanguard Printings
 | url=http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=243
}}</ref>