As King Louis requested that the Legislative Assembly proclaimed war against the King of Hungary and Bohemia, he did so in an unusual...
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Although De Lessart was impeached in March 1792, this was just the start of his troubles. Discover the unfortunate demise of France’s...
Civil war erupts within the Jacobin Club as Brissot and Robespierre denounce each other’s solutions to the nation’s woes...
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...
The Holy Roman Empire (800-1806) was a collection of highly autonomous political entities, including duchies, principalities...
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...
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...
