The declaration of Pillnitz is written with the castle of Pillnitz in Saxony at the end of a conference (from August 25th to 27th 1791) between the Emperor Léopold II and the king Frederic-Guillaume II of Prussia. The conference treated Polish question (see Partitions of Poland) and war between Austria and the Ottoman Empire.
At the last minute, the count d' Artois, brother of king de France, not invited, tore off the declaration of the two monarchs, after the missed escape of Louis XVI of France stopped in Varennes and brought back of force to Paris (June 1791). The sovereigns asked for the re-establishment of the king on his throne and not to carry reached to its rights. They drew the attention of all the European sovereigns and invited them to " to act urgently if they would be prêts". The Léopold emperor threatened, with personal capacity, France of a war.
It filled with enthusiasm the emigrants who transfer there the signal of a forthcoming European coalition against France. It took part at the beginning of the Guerres of the French revolution. Although simple sign of solidarity with the French emigrants and the king of France, it was without contents, because any action was related to an prior agreement of the great powers, and England (Pitt) was against a war counter-revolutionary. However, in France, the propaganda of the left wing of the revolutionists (whose Brissot) made statement of Pillnitz a true declaration of war, in the desire to radicalize the revolution with the help of an external war.
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