WHO
WANTED
WAR?
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Why go to War?
Person Reason
Brissotins
Brissot
Robespierre
Wanted failure of the Revolution to produce political stability and
authority of the King to be strengthened. It would also increase his
prestige as a General enabling him to dictate his own terms to the
King and the Assembly
War would force the King to come out in the open about his
acceptance of the Constitution and would also expose traitors and
those who were opposed to the Revolution.
Would rouse enthusiasm for the Revolution and show the permanence
of the new regime and also transport the Revolution
Wanted a war in France and not outside. ‘’The Tree of Liberty is
watered with blood’’; meaning if you want to keep the Revolution you
will fight for it. The worst enemies of the Revolution are inside France
e.g. Priests and Ministers. He believed that these anti-revolutionaries
within France needed to be disposed of.
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Lafayette
Hoped France would be defeated and end the Revolution enabling
Louis to recover his old power
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King and
MarieAntoinette
KI2: The Revolution 1789-1792.
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Why did war break out
in 1792?
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Monday, 13 April 2015
Monday, 13 April 2015
Session Aims
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• Review events of 1791.
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• Understand the events
surrounding the flight to
Varennes
• Investigate the
significance of this event
Events of 1789.
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• Cut out the boxes and decide if they are an
argument for war or an argument against
war.
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For or Against?
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The Outbreak of War
• Despite the mistrust of the King
it seemed the Constitution of
1791 would have survived.
• However, what prevented this
was the outbreak of war with
Austria.
• Almost everything that happened
from this point onwards can be
linked to war with Austria. The
war directly led to the fall of the
monarchy, civil war and the
terror.
• There were also rumours that
the country’s foreign policy was
being run by an ‘Austrian
committee’ headed by Marie
Antoinette and that secret
agents were being sent to the
emigres and Vienna to plot
counter-revolution.
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• Marie Antoinette known as ‘the
only man in the family’ hoped for
war against her own brother! She
hoped France would be defeated
and Louis would recover his old
powers.
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Austrian Committee
2. Why did Robespierre oppose the call for
war?
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1. Why did Brissot believe war to be in
France’s best interest?
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Questions
3. Why were foreign powers confident
of victory in any war against France?
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• A group of deputies from the Gironde
region and their associates notably
Brissot.
• They sat with the Jacobins in the
Assembly. However, Robespierre and
Brissot did not get along, due their
disagreement over whether or not to
go to war.
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Who were the Girondins?
Plenary
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• Should France have gone to war? Why?