The Revolutionary Cause of the Revolutionary Revolution

Next week we will see a similar mob of radical parisians rise up, overthrow the monarchy and declare france a republic. The demonstration of june twentieth was ominous and not a little bit sereal, but it failed to achieve immediate objective. Then in the medium term, it actually did quite a bit to damage the revolutionary cause as seen from the perspective of the emerging san culot. This would combine with other grievances particular to each department, paving the way for a general breakdown of political harmony between the centre and the periphery of the nation then lead to out and out civil war. In the long term, though, the events of junes twentieth fit neatly into the straight line leading directly