The Man of Blood Part Deux
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. When we left off last time, the Enragés had just successfully expelled the Girondins from the National Convention, which capped off a very chaotic spring of 1793. Today, we are going to push our way into the very chaotic summer of 1793, because, believe me, the summer is going to […]
The Purge of the Girondins
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. As we’ve seen over the last two episodes, the Spring of 1793 brought no good news for the revolutionaries running the young French Republic in Paris. Its armies were getting beat out on the frontiers, its provinces were starting to rise up in armed revolt. And as if that was […]
Provincial Revolt
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Last time, we headed off to the warfront to follow the rapid advance and then equally rapid retreat of the French armies, culminating with the betrayal and emigration of General Dumouriez in April 1793. This, as you can imagine, was all a distressing development for the delegates of the National […]
Advance and Retreat
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. As I mentioned at the beginning of last week’s episode, the reason the National Convention was able to spend so much time focused on the King’s trial was that out on the frontiers, the French armies were not just successfully holding off the Allies, they were positively steamrolling the Allies. […]