AH Challenge: Girondist France

Glen

Moderator
Hem, I'm afraid you may have a wrong idea of who the Girondins were.

Mutadis mutandis, you could compare the Girondins and the Montagnards to Bukharin and Stalin.

The Girondins were NOT favouring a constitutionnal monarchy. Although some of them didn't vote for the execution of Louis, they were eager to aboilsh the monarchy and, had Louis not been executed, I guess he would have been taken into custody rather that exiled (I suspect he would have flown to Wien in that case). It is also the Girondins, not the Montagnards, who made a case for war against the european powers. And La Fayette became quite unpopular after Varennes.

You are right about the Girondists....I was going too fast and being less than clear. The 'Republican by Reason' comment was more referring to Lafayette...and yes, we've noted the necessity of removing Varennes if we're to include him.
 

The Sandman

Banned
Would it be possible to have Lafayette be out-of-country during the major events? Perhaps have the royals be a bit more suspicious of him and decide that posting Lafayette as an ambassador to the United States he loves so much would remove a key figure of the opposition to absolutism?

I mean, it would be a spectacularly stupid decision, and one based on a misreading of Lafayette's intentions, but I can certainly see Louis and Marie (especially Marie) adding one more idiotic move to the OTL pile.
 

Glen

Moderator
Would it be possible to have Lafayette be out-of-country during the major events? Perhaps have the royals be a bit more suspicious of him and decide that posting Lafayette as an ambassador to the United States he loves so much would remove a key figure of the opposition to absolutism?

I mean, it would be a spectacularly stupid decision, and one based on a misreading of Lafayette's intentions, but I can certainly see Louis and Marie (especially Marie) adding one more idiotic move to the OTL pile.

That's an interesting concept.
 
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