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......and you want to talk about the Crusages being a long time ago? The French royalty brought about the Revolution through their own stupidity and corruption. If you deny your people a say in their own lives and then run the country into the ground, you deserve everything that comes to you. And if you want to talk about treason, actively working with foreign powers like Austria to help them invade your own country is pretty much the textbook definition.
By the way, the idea that the War in the Vendee was genocide has been pretty throughly rejected by international scholarship as well as many scholars within France.
“Critics of Secher's thesis have alleged that his methodology is flawed. McPhee asserted that these errors are as follows: (1) The war was not fought against Vendeans but Royalist Vendeans, the government relied on the support of Republican Vendeans; (2) the Convention ended the campaign after the Royalist Army was clearly defeated—if the aim was genocide, then they would have continued and easily exterminated the population; (3) Fails to inform the reader of atrocities committed by Royalist against Republicans in the Vendée; (4) Repeats stories now known to be folkloric myths as fact; (5) Does not refer to the wide range of estimates of deaths suffered by both sides, and that casualties were not "one-sided"; and more.
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Peter McPhee says that the pacification of the Vendée does not fit either the United Nations'
CPPCGdefinition of genocide because the events happened during a civil war. He states that the war in the Vendée was not a one-sided mass killing and the Committee of Public Safety did not intend to exterminate the whole population of the Vendée; parts of the population were allied to the revolutionary government.
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Likewise, the stupidity of Napoleon III in bringing France into a war over basically nothing and getting its ass kicked— not to mention the Mexican debacle— was always going to bring consequences.