Ed Helms

Then he went back to France, and now he's sympathetic with the revolutionaries in France, and he's been put in charge of keeping an eye on King Louis.

And of course...

They have a very professional but fraught relationship because he's guarding him essentially from the mobs, but also from escaping or from.

So anyway, they have a long chat, but it delays the escape even further.

Now, despite all the delays, King Louis is still raring to go.

And they sneak out down a back staircase of the palace.

And here's where just the sort of like cartoon missteps begin.

Like this is where it becomes like Keystone Cops.

So the original plan had called for fast carriages, right?

They would get into like a little clump of carriages and be on their way.

But this did not sit well with Marie Antoinette.

She wanted to keep the family together, which is understandable.

If they got separated, it could get scary.

But unfortunately, this also didn't.

changed the entire journey because they wound up in this enormous carriage.

So the coach itself was a loner from Axel von Fersen the Younger, who happened to be, this is debated, but many think he was actually Marie Antoinette's dashing Swedish lover.

What is documented is he sent her tons of flowers over the years.

We have an artistic rendering of Axel here.

Let's take a gander at this guy.

Let's see this guy.