HIS103Y1 Lecture : HIS103 LEC Notes - Nov.docx
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Challenging diplo status quo = challenging status quo. 25 yrs incessant conflict vs. ger, to maintain bal-power. Sets up examples for rest continent"s states. Aus: personal connection, his sis, in prison (w/ fra king, wife) All of euro to unite if don"t restate louis xvi. Act only if rest euro acts as well. Brit approved: saw in light of their glorious revolution . 1792: fra revolutionaries declare war on aus. Fra never thought prus would never join aus b/c aus & prus often fought. Valmy: prus army, most professional, defeated by fra -> humiliation. Prior to outbreak, fra general cried vive la nation! -> offered chance to fight, not for king, absolutist monarch, but for their own state. This = essence of right of man & citizens. Tf every citizen asked & obliged to ask to fight for own king. All ppl equal in eyes the law tf must fight for this state.
