After learning from De Luy's mouth that the French Empire and the Russian Empire were about to start a war, the three foreign envoys, unable to persuade the French Empire to abandon its action, could only choose to fulfill their duties as diplomatic envoys by conveying the information they had learned back to their respective countries, hoping that their nations would make the right decisions after the war began.
While the three foreign envoys were taking a carriage from the dock in the Seventh District back to their respective embassies, a secret military meeting was being held at the Tuileries Palace on the Champs-Élysées.
