By 1794 the revolution was being exported to neighboring states by France's "revolutionary armies", while in Paris the Terror was, at least till it devoured its best remembered author at the end of July, increasingly uncontrolled and unpredictable. Kerner's name appeared on a list of those to be arrested. With and other members of the German community he fled in April to Switzerland. The French diplomatic mission in Switzerland now persuaded Kerner to return to Württemberg on behalf of France to try and negotiate a separate peace, or at least some form of neutrality, with the Duke of Württemberg. The mission failed and at the start of 1795 Kerner returned to Paris.