HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Brunswick Manifesto, Radicalization, Thermidorian Reaction
24 Nov 2014
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Hst 111: europe 1350-1815 lecture 24- revolution and terror. New assembly responded by printing a ton of money (caused inflation) Bad for: peasants sans-culottes: revolutionaries wearing pants rather than breeches, a member of the class of parisian urban workers who represented the power-base of the jacobins. Feelings of the great powers outside of france. Issued brunswick manifesto stating that if they touched a hair on the head of a french king, they would burn paris down. Louis xvi decides that it is not okay to stay inside of france and leaves paris in june. Plot to smuggle the king/royal family out of france, they are caught at varennes and forced back to paris. Proved to many citizens that he was a traitor who was willing to leave his state. Tried for treason, authority now lies in the people and the republic. Known for not being able to be bribed. Created a new religion: the festival of the supreme being.
