The Second Coalition in the Netherlands

The Directory dealt with a full blown peasant uprising in belgium over conscription. It's one of the reasons the british and russians were about to feel so confident about invading the netherlands. But no sooner had this good news, bad news, come in, than paris received really bad news. The allied victories switzerland in italy had given the second coalition an enormous boost of confidence. So within weeks of finding out that an entire department was in revolt, paris learned that it really wasn't. Any more buth was good news,bad news for the directorial regime.