The History Podcast - One Revolutionary War

The fact that the comte de rindu was anything but a pile of pages with false figures on them, seems to be agreed by a wide range of historians. Necker had invoked the ideas of the intellectual and philosophical movement which were energizing the revolutionaries across the atlantic. Perhaps necker had no idea of the magnitude of his actions; perhaps he inadvertently rendered absolute monarchy impossible. But irrelevant of whether he meant to or not, necker's popularity and his budget weakened the pillars of the old regime significantly. Next episode will be covering the scandalous events occur in the post necker years, including reactionary noble plots and the famous diamond necklace affair.

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