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The storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 electrified independence movements throughout Europe. Just a month later, a revolution began in Liege and two months after that another in the Belgian provinces (Austrian Netherlands). Although these revolutions were as different as the societies from which they sprung and were followed within a year by an Austrian invasion and restoration, they would play a central but heretofore poorly understood role in the course of the French Revolution that had so inspired them.
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This interpretation is based on the research in Patricia Chastain Howe, “French Revolutionary Foreign Policy and the Belgian Project, 1789–1793,” PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1982.
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Howe, P.C. (2008). Introduction. In: Foreign Policy and the French Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616882_1
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