HIS241H5 Lecture 4: HIS241 Lecture 4 - October 1, 2013
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Nationality is one of the guiding notions of the french revolution. French revolutionaries desacralize monarchy (gross, dirty pictures) 1791: public opinion wasn"t very supportive of the monarchy. Louis 16th kind of half and half as he sometimes supported the revolution and sometimes he didn"t. Louis 16th also really despised what the revolutionaries were doing to religion. Disagreed to how church being treated during revolution. Vast majority of french people were conservative, they didn"t like big changes made to their life. Revolutionaries are bringing in more secular and rational state. The public begins to lose faith in the monarch. Louis 16th and marie antoinette decide to leave france. They don"t get very far, they get to france"s eastern border (varennes) Go to central europe (austria) b/c marie antoinette"s brother is emperor of. Hoping to put down revolution once and for all. What is guiding them are enlightenment ideas. Edmund burke, reflections on the revolution in france.
