Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II View Post
Only to reinstate it in 1802.
See, this is the exact point where we put anti-Republican intrigants such as you on a guillotine. Terror, some would call it. Rational policy, says I.


The Republic never reinstated slavery. The Republic was abolished, and then slavery was re-instated. When the Second Republic was formed, slavery was instantly abolished again.

Why did the First Republic end? Because of the ceaseless treath of the reactionary hordes at the gates. Who forced France into increasing martialisation. A French state, Napoléon presumed, which could not afford the unconditional focus on human rights, which has always been the vocation of the five Republics.

So it's all the fault of bloody foreigners, ungrateful for the blessings France brings the world. Curse that Russian snow, else Napoléon would've hammered some common sense into all of Europe and beyond.