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« The king's disappearance certainly grants sovereignty to the people, but without leaving a vacant space between the people and the Assembly. It is the latter that immediately takes over and embodies the legitimacy of power. »
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Jean-Clément Martin
The execution of the king: January 21, 1793 |
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Jean-Clément Martin
The execution of the king: January 21, 1793
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« Within the country, many counter-revolutionaries continued the struggle in a more or less clandestine nature, bringing together those who expressed favourable feelings towards the Roman Catholic Church and the monarchy, but their nebula was divided between three types of monarchy ("absolute", aristocratic or constitutional), thus directing the activists to three radically different if not antagonistic directions. P. 179. »
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Jean-Clément Martin
The Vendée and the Revolution |
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Jean-Clément Martin
The Vendée and the Revolution
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« Insisting on the opening of the general states on 5 May 1789, political opening, rather than on the 4th, the day of the solemn mass, is not without implications, the French nation having wanted to remember only the "secular" date. »
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Jean-Clément Martin
The Vendée and the Revolution |
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Jean-Clément Martin
The Vendée and the Revolution
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