Я не очень сильна в этом вопросе (в настоящее время) Вот что по этому поводу написано в моей электронной версии Британники: Louis had at first rightly regarded the Revolution as the product of aristocratic intransigence and should, therefore, have grasped the opportunity of forming an alliance between the crown and the middle-class reformers. Instead he allowed himself, in the spring of 1789, to be dominated by the reactionary court faction surrounding his younger brother Charles, Count d'Artois (later King Charles X) and to be converted to the policy of defending the privileges of the clergy and nobility in the States General. He continued to believe, even after the increasingly radical trend of popular movements in Paris and the provinces during the summer had demonstrated the futility of such hopes, that the Revolution would burn itself out. (C)
И дальше его обвинили в предательстве. Наверное, ситуация действительно вышла из-под контроля. Но ведь под буржуазией мы понимаем не только крупную, но и среднюю и мелкую.