A New Dawn: The French 1789 Revolution (2024)

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2–5 players

120 min

BGG 8.2

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"- Sire, sorry to bother you ... - What's so important? - The populace has assaulted the Bastille, Sire - And you wake me up to me by a simple revolt? - It is not a revolt, Majesty, is a revolution " (Versailles, July 14, 1789) Louis XVI, timid, indolent and absolute monarch of France, advised by his finance minister Jacques Necker, has summoned the States General, aiming to enlist the support of all sectors of society to reorganize public finances and prevent the imminent bankruptcy because of the ruinous state of the royal Treasury . However during the first sessions of the States General things go wrong and irresolvable disagreements arise between the aristocracy, the intransigent minority reluctant to lose their privileges, and representatives of the "third state", the vast majority of society, who demands equal rights, freedom and dignity. As a result, after a few days frustration and outrage spread across France to the cry of "liberty, equality, fraternity".

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