| Baron Thugut and Austria''s Response to the French Revolution Subjects: Austria -- Foreign relations -- France; France -- Foreign relations -- Austria; Thugut Franz Maria Freiherr von 1736–1818; France -- History -- Revolution 1789–1799 -- Influence; Here is the first political biography of Baron Franz Maria Thugut, the principal Austrian opponent of the French Revolution. This work explains Thugut's role as the first Austrian statesman seriously to confront the Revolution. In the process it makes significant revisions in the conventional picture of the international system of the period. |