Editing Declaration of Pillnitz (section)

==Purpose==
Calling on European powers to intervene if Louis was threatened, the declaration was intended to serve as a warning to the French revolutionaries to stop infringing on the king's prerogatives and to permit his resumption of power.<ref>Karl Otmar von Aretin: ''Vom Deutschen Reich zum Deutschen Bund.'' Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993, {{ISBN|978-3-525-33583-3}}, p. 24. {{in lang|de}}</ref>

The declaration stated that [[Habsburg monarchy|Austria]] would go to war if and only if all the other major European powers also went to war with France. Leopold chose this wording so that he would not be forced to go to war.  He knew that the British prime minister, [[William Pitt the Younger|William Pitt]], did not support war with France. Leopold issued the declaration only to satisfy the French émigrés who had taken refuge in his country and were calling for foreign interference in their homeland.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

(The Pillnitz Conference itself dealt mainly with the [[Partitions of Poland|Polish Question]] and the war of Austria against the [[Ottoman Empire]].){{citation needed|date=February 2022}}