Aillyria wrote:Sanctissima wrote:
That argument doesn't really hold up to the historical record.
Killing every last noble and member of the royal family that the French revolutionaries could find did little to stop the War in the Vendée, let alone the eventual restoration of the Bourbons to power.
Just as killing the Romanovs did little to end the Russian Civil War.
Really, people overestimate the value of figureheads. If anything, they tend to do more as martyrs than they do as living individuals.
The Romanovs never took the throne again though, did they. :^)
Quite so, but that had little to do with the execution of Tsar Nick and his family. The Whites continued fighting regardless, and the civil war went on for another four years. If anything, martyring the Romanovs just gave the Whites further resolve, and made them fight all the fiercer, with rage in their hearts.
The Bourbons were a much larger family though IIRCly, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to eliminate all of them.
Rather irrelevant, considering how:
a) Most opposition to the French revolutionaries came from abroad, with the main concern being the spread of the revolution throughout Europe. The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy was a casus belli, and little else. Had it not been the Bourbons, another noble family would have been found to assume the throne.
b) The Romanovs weren't eliminated in their entirety either.