"The Jacobins factor." Topic

Before Nap depart to the front at 1814, he had meetings with the Jacobins were they proposed an alliance with him and they compromise to take the control of the people as in the Revolution Wars and send the Allied to the borders with a huge mass of men.

Nap said no, but can he had a chance if he agree?

Did he people of 1814 accepted the jacobins actions as in 1790?

Finally, how did manage Nap to control the Jacobins in the case they manage to beat the Allied Armies?.

Amicalement
Armand

No. In the 1790's the Jacobins were a constant drain on the manpower of the army AND inspired insubordnation amongst the regulars.

By 1814, a lot of the French people's Revolutionary ferver is gone as are much of the young men that were available in the 90's.

The Jacobins would not have had the numbers to make up for their inadequacies as a fighting force.

Nappy made the right decision. Jacobin help would only have been a drain on his resources and control.

Bob

It definitely would have been a mistake. In the 1890's the spiritual descendants of the Jacobins gained control of France in the wakr of the Affaire Dreyfus and nearly ruined the army. NCO's "informing" on officers who, supposedly, lacked proper republican zeal. And privates "informing" on the NCO's. See Douglas Porch, "The Road to the Marne" for the grisly details.

The Jacobins nearly lost the war they'd started with Europe. The Directoire had to step in and save France (most notably Carnot). How long before they decided the this upstart "Empreur" had to go in the name of republicanism?

rmaker 09 Nov 2009 6:54 p.m. PST
''It definitely would have been a mistake''.

Perhaps not for Europe, though?