Conrad Gerard de Rayneval Quotes
… in order to emerge from a state of nullity, the [Dutch] bourgeois are asking to take part in government; the most extreme among them wish to participate in all deliberations on public matters …. The more moderate ask only to elect their regents and to have representatives to watch over the maintenance of their rights …
See {639757} for more of his view on the Dutch revolutionary spirit that might infect France. It did a few years later.
Conrad Gerard de Rayneval, 1729-1790, French Diplomat & Minister Plenipotentiary to the American Colonies During the Revolution Letter to the French Foreign Minister Vergennes, ~1785
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the Dutch monarchy supported by England The French fear of course was that the revolutionary fervor spreading to the bourgeois could easily spread to France, and that is exactly what happened 4 years later. See {639769} for more of his view on the Dutch revolutionary spirit that might infect France.
Chief legal officer of a Dutch town. He wanted to have a plebiscite in each town on major issues before the assembly so as to instruct the representative as to how to vote. The graphic is a painting of Adriaan van Zeebergh and his board of the Teylers Stichting.
Liberia was founded by American Blacks who dominated the Government until Doe shot the President on Television and seized the government. He was a member of the majority Krahn tribe which wanted to control the government. Under Doe the Liberian economy collapsed and civil rights evaporated.
Claude-Henri de Rouvroy. He had married a Dutch Countess and settled in Utrecht so he knew the situation in Holland well. The Dutch Revolution was very much like the American Revolution in the it pitted one half of the establishment against the other.
Hunting and fishing had been much restricted to aristocrats for whom it was a sport. But for common people it was part of subsistence. Just like so many corporations and wealthy people end up paying lower tax rates than the average person in modern American society, in Holland then it was the aristocrats who paid little or no taxes. And much of the tax revenue went to provide them with an opulent lifestyle. Ending their tax exemptions and their subsidies, would lower taxes on everyone else. And democracy would give the people control over the government. Daendels had in earlier years fled to France when his first Dutch revolutionary efforts failed and he had a price on his head. He was in Paris during the French Revolution and was an enthusiastic supporter. For his support and with his military experience not associated with royalty, he was made a General of the Revolutionary French Army. When the Dutch Patriots tried again to revolt, the new French Government took their side and sent Daendels to Holland at the head of a small French Army to protect the Patriots. This was his position when he issued this proclamation to the great distress of William V and his supporters.
William V, Prince of Orange, was a very hapless monarch of Holland who was ineffective in dealing with revolutionary discontent despite help and support of England. The King of England was resigned to Holland becoming, like France, a Republic. The English statesmen and diplomats, while aiding William, were also secretly providing money and other assistance to the Patriot rebels, to ensure good relations with the Dutch republican leaders.
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