Joe Haydn
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« on: June 26, 2021, 02:24:15 PM » |
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I like the Girondins myself, especially Brissot, and I agree with their decision to go to war against Austria. With the exception of Joseph II, the Habsburgs were a vile dynasty of reactionaries and bigots that should have been sent packing 90 years earlier, if not for that meddling Marlborough.
For anyone interested in this period, I cannot recommend Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety highly enough. Besides being a masterpiece from one of the most talented historical fiction writers of our time (seriously, read Wolf Hall too if you somehow missed it), it will teach you more than you ever needed to know about all the different personalities and factions of the Revolution.
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