Because of the unprecedented victory of the French Republic in the Great Patriotic War, the fanaticism of the sans-culottes gradually became radical. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sans-culottes man was the name given to the urban commoners by the French upper class, and it was common for French aristocratic men to wear tight shorts and long stockings below the knee; Civilians wear long trousers and no sans, so they are known as sans-culottes. It was originally a term used by the nobility to ridicule the commoners, but it soon became synonymous with revolutionaries. The main composition of sans-culottes was small artisans, petty traders, small shopkeepers and other working people, including some wealthy people. They were the main force of the urban revolution and took part in several armed uprisings in the Revolution.

He was the main and main supporter of the fight against foreign armed intervention forces in the overthrow of the monarchy, the establishment of the republic, and the promotion of the reign of terror that killed the consuls. The sans-culottes demanded the restriction of the bourgeoisie and the crackdown on speculators, and had a serious egalitarian tendency. Politically, it requires the practice of direct democracy, that is, the masses decide on major political matters by public roll call or applause.

In fact, the biggest influencing factor in the political trend after the French Revolution was this group of sans-culottes, who were fundamentally different from the peasants and bitter people in the countryside, because these people belonged to the permanent urban population, most of them had received basic education, were more open-minded, and at the same time were oppressed by the big capitalists and aristocrats the most!

Therefore, the sans-culottes were the biggest supporters and promoters of the revolution and the main players in the National Guard!

However, after the glorious victory of the National Guard, which was dominated by sans-culottes, the rudiments of a party gradually emerged among these people who had been guided by enlightened thinking, and it was also an even more radical extreme party -- the radical faction!

Naturally, this name that is so low that he has no friends is not obtained by the sans-culottes man himself, but the title of this group of people who were deducted by other sane Frenchmen after defeating the intervention army and completely exposing their ambitions!

In fact, the radicals are not really a party or government at all, they are just a group of more radical sans-culottes who have come together with a clear purpose to meddle in the French regime!

Because of their clear political aims, the radicals were no longer confined to the sans-culottes, but extended their ideas to the poor throughout France!

Above all, unlike the sans-culottes, who did not have a clear political leader, the Radicals were led by J. Lu, J. F. Vallai, and others, and they soon became a radical faction representing the interests of the poor working masses in the chaotic French Republic.

They explicitly demanded political equality, equality of civil rights, and social equality, advocated a comprehensive restriction on the prices of daily necessities, requisitioned food, unified management of supplies, relief for the poor and the families of the National Guard, severely punished speculative businessmen, and cracked down on *** elements by means of terror.

The radicals have made their radical political ideas open and transparent!

However, this kind of behavior of the radicals was opposed by almost all rational intellectuals, and apart from the massive support of the urban and rural poor who did not have a high level of literacy, there were hardly many people in the ruling government who looked down on the radicals!

Because the wise know that the political ideas of the radicals will lead the French Republic into the endless abyss!

As a result, soon after the emergence of the Radical faction, the ruling government called it a madman......

However, in the victorious French Republic, the political ideas of the radicals were widely admired, and the ruling government was horrified to find that the actions of the radicals were bringing back the signs of mass fanaticism that had been transferred abroad!

Although the power of the big aristocrats and big capitalists in the French Republic has been almost emptied, there are still many small and medium-sized nobles and middle classes who have given up the title of nobility, and there are still rich people, and the political movement of the radical faction obviously intends to revolutionize this middle rich class together!

How can this be!

You must know that the French government officials must have a good cultural background, most of them are from this kind of middle class and small and medium-sized aristocratic families, and this class has no conflict of interest with the majority of commoners, because the middle class and small and medium-sized nobles were originally the object of oppression by the king and the big nobles!

Invisibly, the radical radicals completely offended more than half of the members of the ruling government and the National Assembly!

However, the radical faction's roots were so strong among the urban and rural poor and in the National Guard that even if the ruling government and the National Assembly were united, they were powerless to suppress it, and there was only one result: a terrible civil war broke out in the nascent French Republic!

The middle class and the small and medium-sized aristocracy are not the big aristocrats and big capitalists with a small number, and France is not entirely made up of the poor, not to mention that the object of hatred of the poor is not those slightly richer families!

It can be said that the difference in strength between the two sides is not large, and the most important thing is that most of the intellectuals are from the middle class, they have a lot of resources and connections in the republic, even if the toiling masses of the lower classes want to rebel, it will not be as simple as overthrowing the rebellious Louis XVI, and many poor people are not opposed to the current government of the republic!

Therefore, in order not to ignite the French civil war, the ruling government and the National Assembly tried to promote a foreign war against the anti-French alliance!

In their eyes, the hole card for the arrogance of the radical faction is the National Self-Defense, as long as the National Self-Defense is sent abroad to fight, it is enough!

If the National Self-Defense Forces are defeated, the biggest reliance of the radical faction will naturally be gone, and the sans-culottes will not only follow the radical faction, but the ruling government and the National Assembly will have a way to weaken or even eliminate the political power of the radical faction!

Even if the National Guard wins, the ruling government can use the victory to preach to the French the idea of a world revolution, and maybe even allow France to complete the feat of unifying the European continent!

At that time, the problem of the radicals will no longer be a problem, and the French, who have the hope of rising, will not start a civil war anyway!

In this way, the million-strong National Guard Corps headed for the territory of the anti-French alliance!

As soon as the National Guard left Paris, the ruling government and the National Assembly immediately began to discuss the system of rebuilding the regular French army, and quickly came up with a charter, believing that it would not be long before the French Republic would no longer have a single National Guard!

First of all, the ruling government announced to the whole of France that since the National Guard was going to punish the rotten monarchies of the anti-French alliance, the militias of a garrison nature were beginning to be formed throughout France!

At the same time, the ruling government began to reorganize the remnants of the National Guard into the French Volunteers!