It bears underlining: The American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution were in quick succession.
One of the reasons that France came to revolution is that the French royal court funded the American Revolution beyond sustainability, and then the country was hit with hard winters and terrible harvests.
Perhaps Louis XVI was in favor of the political experiment of the USA, or perhaps he and his wife saw events as a way to blacken the eye of the English, who were the dominant power of the sea. I don't know enough to say.
The French Revaluation may have been an opportunity for reform, but it quickly devolved into a grotesquery of bloodletting driven by philosophy that borders on the insane.
It was about screwing over the English. As much as the war was funded by France, the French didn't have to engage in a full-scale conflict with Britain. They did that because Louis thought the war could be profitable.
It bears underlining: The American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution were in quick succession.
One of the reasons that France came to revolution is that the French royal court funded the American Revolution beyond sustainability, and then the country was hit with hard winters and terrible harvests.
Perhaps Louis XVI was in favor of the political experiment of the USA, or perhaps he and his wife saw events as a way to blacken the eye of the English, who were the dominant power of the sea. I don't know enough to say.
The French Revaluation may have been an opportunity for reform, but it quickly devolved into a grotesquery of bloodletting driven by philosophy that borders on the insane.
It was about screwing over the English. As much as the war was funded by France, the French didn't have to engage in a full-scale conflict with Britain. They did that because Louis thought the war could be profitable.
Rousseau doesn't border insanity. It is insanity.