Foreign policy and the French Revolution
Subtitle: Charles-François Dumouriez, Pierre Lebrun, and the Belgian Plan, 1789-1793
By: Patricia Chastain Howe.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Dumouriez, Charles François Du Périer, -- 1739-1823; LeBrun, Pierre, -- 1754-1793; Foreign ministers -- France; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; France -- Foreign relations
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pierre LeBrun and the Liégeois revolution, 1754-1792; title: Charles-François Dumouriez and the Belgian revolution, 1739-1792; title: The legislative struggle for control of French foreign policy, 1789-1792; title: Revolution in the ministry of foreign affairs, March-June 1792; title: Consolidating control of the Belgian Plan, May-August 1792; title: Advancing the Belgian Plan, August-November 1792; title: Stalemate in the Belgian provinces, November-December 1792; title: Efforts to prevent a Wider War, January 1793; title: Failure of the Belgian Plan, February-March 1793; title: Endgame, March 1793; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography.