The German Policy of Revolutionary France : : A Study in French Diplomacy during the War of the First Coalition, 1792–1797. / Volume 1, : The German Policy of Revolutionary France: A Study in French Diplomacy during the War of the First Coalition, 1792-1797, Volume 1 / / Sydney Seymour Biro.

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• VerfasserIn: Biro, Sydney Seymour,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1957
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Series: The German Policy of Revolutionary France ; Volume 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.) :; 8 maps

This book is a masterpiece of scholarship, and the only comprehensive work on its subject in any language. It will prove indispensable for all students of Franco-German relations during the Revolutionary period—and since.Sydney Biro has systematically investigated every available source. With the mass of new material coördinated and interpreted in the light of modern scholarship, he is able to guide the reader through the labyrinth of fact and fancy which surround the main issues. The reader will admire Biro's placing of thesis and antithesis, both in internal policies of France, and in foreign policies, in such a way that the narrative never flags. Fact is added to fact until each point is demonstrated, and then the story focuses on the next aspect of the subject.French diplomacy during the years in question was colored by France's yearning for the Rhine frontier. Biro begins his work with a discussion of how the question of the Rhine frontier originated. He analyzes completely every aspect of the problem during the five years concerned, and he shows how the Rhine problem has always affected Franco-German relations. Throughout he is concerned with the economic, moral, and political considerations as well as the military ones.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Special Acknowledgment -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. The Convention Valmy and Basel -- I. THE SETTING -- II. THE EARLY REVOLUTION AND THE RHINELAND -- III. FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS UNDER DANTON -- IV. FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS UNDER ROBESPIERRE -- V. HAMBURG DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE WAR -- VI. THE EARLY THERMIDORIANS AND GERMANY -- VII. THE EARLY THERMIDORIANS AND THE LEFT BANK -- VIII. THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN TREATY OF BASEL, APRIL 5, 1795 -- IX. THE TREATY OF BASEL — Continued -- X. THE NEUTRALITY OF NORTHERN GERMANY AND THE QUESTION OF THE LEFT BANK -- XI. FRANCE AND HESSE-CASSEL MAKE PEACE, AUGUST 28, 1795 -- XII. THE WAR AND THE LINE OF DEMARCATION -- XIII. FRANCE, PRUSSIA, AND THE PEACE OF GERMANY -- XIV. THE LEFT BANK AFTER THE TREATY OF BASEL -- XV. THE LATE THERMIDORIANS AND AUSTRIA -- XVI. CONCLUDING REMARKS — CONVENTION