Louis XVI of France

“ I am suggesting to them the idea of a congress of the chief powers of Europe, supported by an armed force, as the best means of checking seditious parties, of establishing a more desirable order of things, and of preventing the evil which afflicts us from reaching the other states of Europe.
I trust that your Majesty will approve my ideas, and that you will maintain the most absolute secrecy about the propo­sition I am making to you. You will easily understand that the circumstances in which I find myself force me to ob­serve the greatest caution. ”