The queen herself was for a long time powerless.

At last the king seemed to hesitate, and gave Dumouriez a private meeting in the evening.

In this conversation he ordered Dumouriez to present to him three ministers, to succeed Roland, Claviere, and Servan.

Dumouriez at once named Vergennes for finance, Naillac for foreign affairs, Mourgues for the interior.

He reserved the war department for himself: dictatorial minister at the moment when France was becoming an army.
Roland, Claviere, and Servan, stung to the quick at a dismissal they had provoked the more because they had not anticipated it, hastened to carry their complaints and accusations to the Assembly.