Dated from the July 25th 1792, the proclamation of Brunswick is allotted to the chief of the Prussian army, Charles-Guillaume-Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick, and is addressed to the people of Paris.

Context

This text actually emanates from the emigrated mediums, fruit of the correspondence with the royal family, and was written by an emigrant orleanist of the name of Geoffroy de Limon and Pellenc, former secretary of Mirabeau. Proclaimed with Coblentz, the proclamation is printed and published in the Gazette of Paris , a sheet counter-revolutionary. It is not known if the duke really signed proclamation. Resulting from a family of lit princes, he was regarded as a moderate prince.

The proclamation

In this text the forces counter-revolutionaries threaten Paris of a “military execution and a total subversion” if it were made “least violence, the least insult with L. The king and the queen”. In its totality, the text is less radical than the usually quoted passages, but rests on a design reactionary of the events: the Revolution is not wished not the nation which does not adhere to the new institutions, the people of France does not recognize for authority that the senior leave the kingdom, monarchy must be restored. Paris then concentrates there all the hatred of the Émigrés. Ultimately, the proclamation reveals in a bright way how much the revolutionary process had been included/understood little by its writers.

Range and impact

The proclamation was known in Paris a few days before the attack on Tileries and was of one of the causes of the popular fury. August 6th, 1792, the commanders of Federate of Finistere writes of Paris: “The capital is for the moment in a state of crisis of which it is difficult to have an idea; each day sees hatching of new projects on behalf of our enemies; and each day is put of use, by the patriots to make fall through these same projects. ”

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