The German Policy of Revolutionary France : : A Study in French Diplomacy during the War of the First Coalition, 1792–1797. / Volume 2, : The German Policy of Revolutionary France: A Study in French Diplomacy during the War of the First Coalition, 1792-1797, Volume 2 / / 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 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1104 p.) :; 4 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 -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- PART II. THE DIRECTORY Berlin and Campo-Formio -- CHAPTER I. THE DIRECTORY TAKES OVER THE REINS -- CHAPTER II. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF FOREIGN POLICY -- CHAPTER III. THE EARLY DIRECTORY AND AUSTRIA -- CHAPTER IV. THE EARLY DIRECTORY AND PRUSSIA -- CHAPTER V. THE EARLY DIRECTORY AND THE LEFT BANK OF THE RHINE, OCTOBER 26, 1795-AUGUST 23, 1796 -- CHAPTER VI. POTERATZ AT BASEL -- CHAPTER VII. ENDEAVORS TO COERCE AUSTRIA BY ACTING UPON HESSE-CASSEL AND TURKEY, AND RAISING THE SPECTER OF POLAND -- CHAPTER VIII. POTERATZ AND THE PLAN OF A REPUBLIC IN SOUTHWESTERN GERMANY -- CHAPTER IX. SOUTHWESTERN GERMANY AFTER THE WITHDRAWAL OF POTERATZ -- CHAPTER X. THE EMPEROR WAVERS -- CHAPTER XI. THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN TREATY OF BERLIN, AUGUST 5, 1796 -- CHAPTER XII. PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA AND THE REORGANIZATION OF THE EMPIRE -- CHAPTER XIII. SUBSISTENCE-PEACE IN SOUTHWESTERN GERMANY -- CHAPTER XIV. PRINCIPLES OF DIRECTORIAL WARFARE -- CHAPTER XV. THE SUBSISTENCE-PEACE AND THE FRENCH RETREAT -- CHAPTER XVI. THE DELACROIX -MALMESBURY NEGOTIATIONS, OCTOBER 23-DECEMBER 19, 1796 -- CHAPTER XVII. FRANCO-PRUSSIAN RELATIONS FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1796 -- CHAPTER XVIII. THE DIRECTORY AND AUSTRIA DURING THE LATTER PART OF 1796 -- CHAPTER XIX. THE RHINE AND THE RHINELAND, SPRING, 1796-SPRING, 1797 -- CHAPTER XX. CLARKE’S MISSION TO “VIENNA” -- CHAPTER XXI. THE DEFEAT OF AUSTRIA -- CHAPTER XXII. THE PRELIMINARIES OF LEOBEN APRIL 18, 1797 -- CHAPTER XXIII. ABANDONMENT OF THE PRELIMINARIES OF LEOBEN AND THE RISING CRISIS IN FRANCE -- CHAPTER XXIV. PERRET’S MISSION TO VIENNA (JULY-AUGUST 1797), AND BAPTISTE'S MISSION TO PARIS (AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1797) -- CHAPTER XXV. THE DIRECTORY AND THE HANSEATIC CITIES -- CHAPTER XXVI. FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS ON THE EVE OF THE 18 FRUCTIDOR -- CHAPTER XXVII. THE LEFT BANK ON THE EVE OF THE 18 FRUCTIDOR -- CHAPTER XXVIII. FRUCTIDOR IN FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS -- CHAPTER XXIX. THE FINAL STAGE OF THE UDINEPASSARIANO CONFERENCES -- CHAPTER XXX. THE TREATY OF CAMPO-FORMIO, OCTOBER 17, 1797 -- CHAPTER XXXI. CONCLUDING REMARKS —DIRECTORY -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX Β -- APPENDIX C -- APPENDIX D -- KEY TO CONTRACTIONS -- ANALYTICAL GUIDE TO BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- CATALOG OF MATERIAL CITED -- INDEX