Title: Foreign policy and the French Revolution : Charles-François Dumouriez, Pierre Lebrun, and the Belgian Plan, 1789-1793 /
Authors: Howe, Patricia Chastain.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Dumouriez, Charles François Du Périer,; LeBrun, Pierre,; Foreign ministers France.; France History; France Foreign relations.
Abstract: "This study of the French Revolution reveals that from March 1792 to April 1793, French foreign policy was dominated not by the leaders of the French revolutionary government, but by two successive French foreign ministers, Charles-Francois Dumouriez and Pierre LeBrun."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction -- Pierre LeBrun and the Liégeois revolution, 1754-1792 -- Charles-François Dumouriez and the Belgian revolution, 1739-1792 -- The legislative struggle for control of French foreign policy, 1789-1792 -- Revolution in the ministry of foreign affairs, March-June 1792 -- Consolidating control of the Belgian Plan, May-August 1792 -- Advancing the Belgian Plan, August-November 1792 -- Stalemate in the Belgian provinces, November-December 1792 -- Efforts to prevent a wider war, January 1793 -- Failure of the Belgian Plan, February-March 1793 -- Endgame, March 1793 -- Conclusion.