The Coup of Floreal
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So we left off last time with a circuit of all of France’s new allies, all those sister republics who were thrilled, just thrilled, to be joining the French revolutionary project of liberating mankind. And by that, I of course, mean getting rung dry. Today, we’ll take a look at […]
The Directorial Terror
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. We left off last time with the coup of Fructidor, which created the Second Directory, and the Treaty of Campo Formio, which ended hostilities between France and Austria. Today, we will cover the fallout from these two watershed events. The Directory will spend the next six months trying to stabilize […]
The Coup of Fructidor
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So we left off last time with the Fall of Mantua in Italy in February, 1797. This week, I want to pick up right where we left off, push the Italian campaign through to the preliminaries at Leoben before hopping back to France to cover the elections of year V, […]