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The '''Augustine Wars''' (French: ''Guerres augustéennes''; 1790-1814), also going by the term the '''Augustine ''period''''' were a series of global conflicts instigated by [[France]], starting with the French Revolution of 1795 and ending with the Treaty of Vienna of 1814. ▼
| conflict = Augustine Wars
| place = Western Europe, [[New Netherland]], [[Colonial India]], the Caribbean
| date = 1795 - 1814
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▲The '''Augustine Wars''' (French: ''Guerres augustéennes'';
== Background ==
In the aftermath of the [[Great Silesian War|Silesian War]], France was reeling from its defeat and the destruction of its longstanding ally, [[Prussia]]. [[History of New Netherland#Prince Maurice’s War (1750-1755)|Prince Maurice's War]] resulted in the loss of several American colonies, including modern-day [[Meerenland]] and most of the French Caribbean. In Asia, France's valuable Indian ports [[Colonial India#France|were granted to]] Spain. The disproportionate concessions to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and other European powers angered the aristocracy and bourgeoisie, worsened the national economy, and led to government corruption and social decline.
King [[Philip VIII]] ascended to the throne in 1763. His court rejected most innovative reformist policies, keeping in mind the poor fate of the last Prussian monarch Frederick II's reign - an Enlightened period that ultimately led to their demise. The French monarchy began to assert its control and centralise the state, transforming from a ''monarchie judiciare'' to a ''monarchie administrative''. Although contrary to their wider policy, the kingdom was forced to mend relations with the Catholic Jesuits, who gallantly defended the island of Martinique against British forces during the Silesian War. This led to a petty conflict between the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansenist Jansenists]
France lurched from one financial crisis to the next, plagued by complications in military, financial, and religious policies. The post-1763 regime also fiercely protected [[History of fashion|France's fashion industry]] that was suppressed under Philip VII, allowing its extravagant nature to flourish. They also regularly sold [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinecure sinecures] and titles for money, throwing their political support behind mutual benefactors. By 1780, there were 3,000 active writers in France, triggering ideological tensions and enforcing political and social partisanship.
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==== March on Versailles ====
In February of
==== Flight of the Bourbons to New France ====
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* Republicanism, to abandon the complex structure of the ''ancien regime''
Feeding off of the public's nationalist and republican leanings, the Spiga regime propagated these ideas while neglecting domestic priorities focused on economic, political, and social equalisation. With the Treaty of Vienna in 1814, France had generally lost faith in the republican cause, instead turning to the extravagant and confident [[History of France#Valentine period (1815-1874)|Valentines]]. At that stage, all affection for the pre-
In the 1870s, the failures of the Valentines to reform and improve economic conditions ultimately led to the radical egalitarianism of the [[History of France#Second Republic (1874-1877)|Second Republic]]. With some significant level of reform finally achieved, revolutionary fervor mellowed out into the [[History of France#Dictatorial period (1908-1938)|late Third Republic]]. After the [[Great War]], the French ideological landscape changed drastically, though still built on the foundation established prior to the 20th century.
== See also ==
* [[France]]
* [[History of France]]
* [[Augustine Spiga]]
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