This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...when the foreign policy of France was exercising a preponderating influence on its internal concerns. As far back as the end of 1790 the conduct of foreign affairs had been to a great extent in the hands of the diplomatic committee and its reporter Mirabeau. His views are well known. Exchange of territory and extension ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...when the foreign policy of France was exercising a preponderating influence on its internal concerns. As far back as the end of 1790 the conduct of foreign affairs had been to a great extent in the hands of the diplomatic committee and its reporter Mirabeau. His views are well known. Exchange of territory and extension of frontiers he opposed as mere expedients of arbitrary authority. A system of alliances, based on mutual economic advantages, was to replace the dynastic policy of feudal Europe. Mirabeau's stepson relates that the recommendation of an alliance of this kind between France and England was the dying man's legacy to Talleyrand. The latter succeeded him in the diplomatic committee, and it was through his VII FOREIGN POLICY OF CONSTITUTIONALISTS. 169 influence that the Constituent Assembly made the abandonment of foreign conquest a fundamental law of the State. As late as the autumn of 1791 this policy seemed to have every prospect of success. Montmorin, the King's Minister and friend, supported it from conviction, and from motives of moderation, as the tradition of Vergennes and the best safeguard of the Monarchy. The Constitutionalists, who were committed to peace, had, after the flight to Varennes, replaced the King, who was at first suspended and then pardoned, on the throne, put down the insurrection, and proved that in 1791 only a dwindling minority of Frenchmen was in favour of a republic. They persuaded Louis XVI. to take the oath to the constitution, which he had shortly before declared to be unworkable, an opinion shared by those who had framed it. The revolutionist Barnave and the conservative Malouet agreed that, if it was impossible to govern with it, then the conflict must end by strengthening the executive, unless the country was t...
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