HISTORY 2DF3 Lecture Notes - Maximilien Robespierre, Brunswick Manifesto, Sans-Culottes
9 Apr 2013
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Many of these clubs included members of the national assembly. Jacobins: left side: wanted more change, right sided political parties wanted less change. Flight of king louis xvi to varennes, june 20-21 1791. Starts because both the national assembly, and moderates of the national assembly believe that the war will bring citizens to the revolution. The king thinks that it will crush those who are part of the revolution. The brunswick manifesto: king demands that france disarm themselves and allow prussia to invade france. Sans culottes: workers of paris, one of the driving forces of the revolution- saw themselves as democrats and virtuous citizens. Storming of the tuileries palance, august 9-10, 1792. Formal arrest of the king for treason. Formation of the national convention, september 20 1792. King has become a citizen and has lost all of his privileges. France now at war with austria, prussia, britain, spain and. Reduce those who are becoming wealthy off of the war.
