Historian Charles Mallet details the state of the Feuillant Club in the new Assembly, and explores the characteristics and politics of the...
As the Legislative Assembly gathered in Paris in October 1791, a new generation of revolutionaries were forced to confront a multitude of...
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...
With the democrats on the run, the newly established Feuillant Club had an opportunity to revise the constitution and cement its power...
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).
With the nation shocked by the King’s attempted escape, public debate erupted over the future of both the monarch and the monarchy...
Could Louis have talked himself out of his capture in Varennes? We also discuss a ground-breaking “world first” connected to...
Endangered by the rising power of both the far-left and the far-right, Louis finally decides to reject the revolution and flee the capital...
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’.