145. French Revolution Part 3; The Terror

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Only 24% of French priests are willing to take the constitutional oath putting their allegiance to the state above that to Jesus and the Pope. The Vendee is extra religious because of their relatively recent conversion from Calvinism. We have the the flight to Varrenes, Louis XVI’s failed escape attempt, which leads to the Champ De Mars massacre. We have the Pillnitz Declaration, leading to the war with Austria a...