The movie The Night of Varennes (1982), by Ettore Scola, is the story of the debate surrounding the emergence of a new world on the ruins of another: the one illuminated by the French Revolution due to the collapse of the Ancien Régime. The Italian filmmaker takes advantage of the historical episode of the flight from Paris of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette – June 1791 – to bring together in the same carriage three real characters: Restif de la Bretonne, a libertine and popular writer – today we would call it a populist, perhaps with a tendency towards fake news–; Thomas Paine, the English revolutionary intellectual, and the famous traveler and seducer Giacomo Casanova, already elderly and quite physically deteriorated.