212 The fall of royal power
Although the Kingdom of France is facing a severe internal and external situation, at the moment when the alliance army entered Versailles, the victory undoubtedly belonged to the democratic politicians and all the French people!
The Jacobins, as the most prestigious political faction in this national revolution, naturally became the first faction of the temporarily reconstituted National Assembly, and Robespierre finally ascended to the coveted position of national political leader of France. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After the reorganization of the provisional parliament, the first public message was to completely overthrow the original tax electoral system, promote the universal suffrage law to form a new French parliamentary government, and at the same time, all the royal power of King Louis XVI was completely banned by the Provisional National Assembly reorganized by the Jacobins......
At this moment, the throne was overturned, and with it the Girondists and the political forces of the liberal aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie, who had facilitated the initiation of the revolution, and who had later tried to lead it more moderately, led by the Marquis de Lafayette and the Triumvirate.
When the Girondists first came to power, although they were relatively radical and democratic, the Girondists, who had gained power, gradually united with the court and aristocratic forces in order to maintain the political privileges of their own class in paying taxes and safeguarding the fundamental interests of the industrial and commercial capitalists, and tried their best to prevent the uprising from happening, and ended up with a bad reputation.
As a result, the Girondists were also targeted for overthrow by the insurgents, and after the victory of the uprising, the Girondists naturally fell......
On the other hand, the passive citizens, who were mainly craftsmen and petty traders, under the leadership of Robespierre and the Montrangers, made a remarkable appearance on the political stage and became the leaders of the new France!
The fall of Versailles was so rapid and unexpected, resulting in Lin Haoda and his Paris legions in the city of Versailles after the reorganization of the Provisional National Assembly, still in a state of bewilderment, Lin Haoda and Jia Xu, who had planned to quietly watch the French people pick the fruits after several months of exhaustion in the civil war, could only reluctantly accept the fact that the French nation had established a nationalist army in the true sense!
The Jacobin government in Versailles was bound to be overthrown, Lin Haoda knew too well how powerful the army was after mobilizing the masses of the people in later generations, and now the other side was just beginning to show its edge, and there were still a large number of reactionary forces and foreign intervention forces hostile to the Jacobin government around the Kingdom of France.
After all, most of the Confederate forces themselves and the rebelled National Guard were improvised, not to mention the militia volunteers.
Lin Haoda was not willing to fight alone with the National Alliance Army, which had a high reputation among the French people, and he hoped to draw in all the reactionary forces and foreign intervention forces, not seeking to form an alliance, as long as they could reach a tacit acquiescence while attacking and maintaining each other's neutrality, the two sides did not now have a border, and with the common enemy of the Jacobin government, it was not difficult to reach a private strategic agreement in the early stage.
Of course, all this takes time to arrange and connect, and God knows why the tens of thousands of National Guards in the hands of the Girondist government have defected so completely, so that the war is fleeting, so that Lin Haoda does not even have the time to privately send people to contact the reactionary forces and foreign intervention forces......
Fortunately, the democratic political forces led by Robespierre did not want to directly confront the notorious Paris legion, and put forward the sincerity of the peace talks, and Lin Haoda and others took advantage of the opportunity of the peace talks to constantly delay time, and then secretly sent diplomats de Gaulle to the border of the Kingdom of France to contact the reactionary aristocratic military forces and foreign intervention forces.
These liaison officers, all under the command of de Gaulle, went to their respective locations to meet in several ways, whether they were willing to cooperate or not, and at least to convey the wishes of the Parisian legions.
Lin Haoda only had to ensure that after the first round of attacks by the Paris legion, the reactionary forces and foreign intervention forces who received the news could then attack the rest of the Kingdom of France.
Simply facing the main force of the Alliance near Versailles, the Paris Legion was not afraid, what Lin Haoda needed was to plunge the entire French Kingdom into war, and he could not draw troops from other provinces to concentrate on dealing with the Paris Legion.
War is such a thing, and any ruler likes to fight a crushing battle to win, rather than trying to fight a desperate war with an unknown victory, and this is the reason why American imperialism in the 21st century strives to fight an asymmetrical war every time it goes to war.
To put it bluntly, there is no so-called principle of fairness and justice in war, and some only do their best to create a situation in which the big bullies the small!
Robespierre and others soon realized the intention of the Parisians to stall for time, but they also used the time to reorganize the parliament and issue resolutions in the name of the French government to win the hearts and minds of the people.
In this way, while Paris was making military preparations for all-out war and liaising with reactionary warlords and foreign intervention forces, Versailles stepped up its use of the Provisional Assembly to issue new decrees.
First of all, the Provisional National Assembly, headed by the Jacobins, used the legal situation to completely break down the barriers that divided the people in the social and political aspects, and the citizens of France would no longer be divided into political classes such as deputies of parliament, electors, active citizens and passive citizens.
Robespierre's main supporters, however, were the passive citizens of the cities, and thus subconsciously ignored the interests of the poorer peasants and tenants in the countryside......
Even so, in the Kingdom of France, it is an epoch-making democratic political progress!
The Jacobins declared: "No individual class of citizens can steal the exclusive right to save the Fatherland." ”
Robespierre called for the National Guard, which was called a passive citizen by the privileged class, to serve in the National Guard, breaking the constitutional reality that the National Guard was an armed bourgeoisie.
Because after the influx of a large number of negative citizens into the National Guard, the bourgeois politicians will no longer be able to manipulate the National Guard to carry out unreasonable repression against the masses at will!
In addition to the practical act of arming passive citizens, another means of the Jacobin government to win the hearts and minds of the people was universal suffrage, which included the common people in the meaning of the people, marking the birth of political democracy!
At the same time, the strong rise of the Jacobins and the collective defection of the National Guard have made those non-aristocratic politicians who originally advocated compromise with the aristocracy disappear after repeated encounters.
Even today's foreign intervention forces and reactionary forces are aggressively trying to punish the rebellious Jacobins, including the Gironds, who are the strongest remnants of the centrist faction, dare not say the slightest word of praise for the aristocracy......
After the defeat, Jacques Pierre Brissot, although he withdrew from the national political arena in France, did not completely give up his political career, which is also human nature, even the notorious people like the Marquis de Lafayette tried to return to France, not to mention the Girondist political leader Jacques-Pierre Brissot, who was only labeled as a weak compromise?
Jacques-Pierre Brissot, who was not elected to the National Assembly of France, had no problem being the head of a local provincial government, the Gironde was one of the largest parties in France, and the industrial and commercial capitalists were hardcore supporters of Jacques-Pierre Brissot, and a large number of wealthy capitalists benefited from the experience and tax electoral system he maintained.
It is okay for such a figure to be forced to step down, but the Jacobins have no right to detain them, after all, the biggest difference between democratic politics and autocratic regimes is that everything needs to pay attention to the law, of course, the democratic dictatorship system that evolved from democratic politics in later generations, that is, the centralized system in disguise is another matter......
At the very least, the political democracy that had just been born in France tended to be democratic in the true sense of the word, and most democratic politicians did not move closer to dictatorship democracy.
As a result, Jacques-Pierre Brisset and others were able to leave Versailles and go to the Girondin province, the province of southwestern France, where the Girondists were most concentrated, and where more than half of the Girondists' political leaders were located.
Jacques-Pierre Brissot believed that after he got there, there was still a great hope for the Girondists to be reorganized, or at least to reinvigorate the Girondists, who were facing such a great defeat, and not to dissipate!
Compared with the Girondins, the political faction of the liberal aristocracy and the big capitalists was much more miserable, they completely lost their political parties, some became exiles, some were taken into custody by the Jacobin government, some turned to the 'invisible' Lametes, and of course, there were also liberal aristocrats and capitalists blinded by hatred who turned to their original revolutionary object, the reactionary aristocracy.
The Duke of Provence, who had the right to inherit the king of France, became the head of a loose alliance of reactionary nobles and exiles.
Although the policy of the Jacobin Provisional National Assembly won the support of a large number of French civilians, it also made the armed forces composed of foreign intervention forces and reactionary nobles and exiles gathered in the border areas, as well as the elite of the 100,000 National Guards led by the Marquis de Lafayette and many noble generals, see the irreconcilability of class contradictions, and the outbreak of the French civil war was imminent!