Brisseau's Conspiracy Theory

Brisseau and his allies in the legislative assembly had to explain why the suppose y invincible french army had just turned and run at the first sign of the enemy. He launched into a full throated conspiracy theory that asserted that the royal family, the generals in the field and a cabal of aristocratic reactionaries were plotting to intentionally lose the war. This certainly was a new kind of war, and one he wanted no part of. Since the problem did not lay with the french army or the righteousness of the french cause, but rather a sinister network of internal enemies,. The legislative assembly turned all their attention to rooting out those enemies. On may twentieth, they passed a law putting all foreigners