Charles-Élie de Ferrières describes the various seditious acts undertaken by the non-juring clergy as they try to undermine the...
Genevan journalist Mallet Du Pan attacks the Legislative Assembly for its immoral and unjust decree against the nation’s emigrants.
Historian Charles Mallet details the state of the Feuillant Club in the new Assembly, and explores the characteristics and politics of the...
Jacques Guillaume Thouret and Madame de Staël recall the King’s acceptance of the Constitution of 1791, and the false sense of hope...
Historian Henry Packwood Adams details an alternative framework in which to analyse the constitution. Rejecting the mainstream approach...
Explore the anti-royalist and pro-republican sentiment produced by the revolutionary press after the King’s failed escape. Jacques...
Examine King Louis’ official deposition justifying his attempted escape from Paris (not France….. supposedly).
Could Louis have talked himself out of his capture in Varennes? We also discuss a ground-breaking “world first” connected to...
Examine two passionate defences of French nobility. Two members of the Third Estate, Jean-Sifrein Maury and Jacques Necker, argue against...
Explore Dom Gerle and Abbé Grégoire in David’s Tennis Court Oath and the latter’s invention of the word ‘vandalism’.
