Were the Americans to Blame ?

  

Were the Americans to blame ?

King Louis 16th gave huge aid in money , men and arms
to the Rebels in America.

He sent the French Navy to join in the fray too.

France was getting its own back on Britain for its severe losses in Canada and India earlier in the century.

The British surrender at Georgetown was celebrated in Paris
and around the same time Marie Antoinette gave birth
to her first son..... the Dauphin.


Three days before the birth, the majority of the fighting in the conflict in America was concluded with the surrender of General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.


The decision to aid the Rebels on such a massive scale,
put France even more into financial peril and it could
be argued that the growing financial crisis led to the
Revolution and for King Louis and Marie Antoinette to
face a gruesome death under the blade of the guillotine.

Soldiers returning from the conflict in America only added to the revolutionary atmosphere of Paris as more and more people questioned the power and influence of the French Monarchy.

The seeds of Revolution and sedition crossed the Atlantic and were planted in the rich soils of France.

  

 
    

 

Charlotte Corday (She murdered Marat )

Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont             ( 1768 -1793), known to history as Charlotte Corday was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed under the guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part responsible, through his role as a politician and journalist, for the more radical course the Revolution had taken. More specifically, he played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized.