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“You have shaken off the yoke of your despots, but surely this was not to bend the knee before a foreign tyrant…”

It’s January 1792, and one of the largest factions in revolutionary France, the Gironde, is calling for war against Austria. The French people’s hatred of Marie Antoinette has always fuelled suspicion of the Austrians, and at the same time, there has been constant, treacherous correspondence between the French royal family and their European cousins. And so, when one of the prominent members of the Gironde calls to arms in early 1792, little does he realise that the war he wants will haunt Europe for the next 25 years, totally redrawing its map, and costing millions of lives…

Join Tom and Dominic in part two of our second season of the French Revolution, as they dive into the first of many wars to come between Revolutionary France and its European rivals.

00:00 The situation in 1791
06:00 The factionalism of the new assembly
08:10 The mess France was in
10:30 Louis’s refusal of a constitutional monarchy
11:50 Jacques Pierre Brissot
17:38 The threat of emigre populations
27:50 Brissot gains the upper hand
28:10 The French state was built for war
28:58 The French Revolution was meant to be exported
31:58 The French Revolution takes Avignon
33:53 How the Austrians saw the revolution
35:55 The Austrian Emporor and King of Prussia meet
37:25 France’s fear of the Hapsburgs
39:50 France’s justification for war
41:55 Robespierre argues against war
45:45 France’s political disintegration
47:30 Robespierre’s political personality
48:32 France went to war to bring it together
49:52 Louis XVI supports war
52:47 The Austrian emperor debates whether to go to war
53:27 Marie Antoinette betrays France
53:42 A dramatic development in France
55:38 The war begins
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