BearFed🎵 AUX ARMES, CITOYENS! 🎵
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Explanation: After their king attempted to betray the country at the head of a foreign invading army, and France duly beheaded him for his treason, the monarchies of Europe turned against the French Revolution with renewed zeal. The entire continent, more or less, was up in arms against the uppity commoners who had dared touch the sacrosanct flesh of a king!
Not only that, but these revolutionaries were also busy killing one another over disagreements how their revolution should actually be going, with a sizable reactionary rebellion in the Vendee! The entirety of Europe's conservative forces, plus French infighting, should lead to an easy win over the so-called French Republic, right?
Well, actually, France threw back the entirety of the invading reactionary forces, performing counter-invasions and setting up 'sister republics' in the territory of the reactionary monarchies.
Bit of a miscalculation on their part! Get fucked, anciens regimes! Le peuple souverain s'avance!
(yes, before anyone tries to point it out, I know the title is from La Marseillaise while the last sentence is from Le Chant du depart)
Took Advanced European History my last two years of high school. One of the 3 best teachers I ever had hammered us on the French Revolution, figured it would be the essay question that year on the AP test. And it was! I was also kicking ass in French class, so I was doubly interested.
People tend to think the commoners got riled up and kicked the monarchy to the dirt. Yeah, they did, but there was a stunning amount of backstabbing and reversals inside the revolution. The sheer amount of spilled blood is hard to overstate. Fuck me, even Robespierre caught a blade in the neck.
And yes, it was not only an internal struggle, they had to fight off the other monarchies who were scared shitless they would win and set precedent.
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité!
One of my favorite events during the Revolution is when the French repelled a Prussian force by singing
LOL, don't remember him covering that! Sounds like a trick from The Art of War.
Something crazy about that teacher. He coached JV football so that his teaching job would be secure. Nuts, ain't it?
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