The change of leaders and the type of government was not liked by many people inside and outside of France. Countries outside of France were not only anxious that the rebellion in France will influence their own people’s views on the government, but, they also were related to the royal family that got overthrown. Marie-Antoinette was Austrian; therefore the Austrians were more than displeased with the new rule. Prussia and Austria allied with France’s foreign enemy to revolt against the Republic and called themselves the émigrés. The French, however, fought back and by 1793, the foreign threat ended (Doc C). If the émigrés had the proper resources and were a larger group, they would have overthrown the government. This could be seen as
