An interview with Historian Christopher Tozzi on the experience of foreign soldiers in the French Revolutionary Army. Focusing initially on the experience of foreign troops during the Old Regime, this episode also covers the hostile treatment of non...
When the French War Minister Narbonne is forced to resign in March 1792, a political crisis engulfs the nation. Seeking to sooth tensions between the Court and the Legislative Assembly, King Louis XVI installs a new cabinet. This episode contains a...
Episode 1.27, “The Nancy Mutiny”, is now available exclusively to Patreon supporters and is the first full-length bonus episode! The often-overlooked Nancy Mutiny was a bloody and important insurrection that occurred during the summer of...
As King Louis requested that the Legislative Assembly proclaimed war against the King of Hungary and Bohemia, he did so in an unusual manner. Listen to Madame de Stael’s interesting observations of the historic event.
Although De Lessart was impeached in March 1792, this was just the start of his troubles. Discover the unfortunate demise of France’s Foreign Minister in August 1792.
Civil war erupts within the Jacobin Club as Brissot and Robespierre denounce each other’s solutions to the nation’s woes. Diplomatic and ministerial crises finally trigger conflict between France and Austria in April 1792. “To whom will...
The Feuillant leader Antoine Barnave lists multiple reasons to maintain the peace as he tries to save the Constitution of 1791.
As European monarchs threaten war, Jacobin deputies embrace the challenge. A strange alliance is forged between republicans and monarchists as the nation prepares for conflict, while the supporters of a general revolution urge French liberation of...
The Holy Roman Empire (800-1806) was a collection of highly autonomous political entities, including duchies, principalities, archbishoprics, bishoprics, landgraviates, margraviates, imperial free cities, imperial abbeys, imperial knights and...
Charles-Élie de Ferrières describes the various seditious acts undertaken by the non-juring clergy as they try to undermine the revolutionary regime.
