Brunswick Manifesto
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Proclamation issued at Koblenz on 25 July 1792 to the inhabitants of France by the Duke of Brunswick, commander of the allied Austrian and Prussian army. It threatened Paris with military execution and total subversion if the royal family suffered the least harm.
In depth
Claiming that the two sovereigns sought no conquest and wished only to free the king and royal family from captivity, it threatened to punish as rebels any National Guards and inhabitants who resisted the allied armies and to demolish or burn their houses. Its eighth point made members of the National Assembly, the Paris National Guard and all other officials answer for events with their heads. It was written mainly by the Prince of Condé, leader of the émigré forces in Brunswick's army. The manifesto circulated in Paris from 1 August 1792, and many Parisians took it as proof that Louis XVI was collaborating with foreign powers. Against the usual view that it helped provoke the storming of the Tuileries on 10 August, newer scholarship suggests its impact may have been overstated.
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