Who caused the French Revolution?
Abbé Barruel and John Robison claim the Illuminati caused the revolution. Lyndon LaRouche blames British Freemasonry. “The Synarchist tradition is traced to the British freemasonry around the British East India Company s Lord Shelburne. Shelburne launched the continuing operations against American independence and France during the period 1763-1789, and was behind not only the July 14, 1789 storming of the Bastille, but also the Jacobin Terror and the launching of Napoleon Bonaparte s rise to imperial power. Shelburne s tools thus included his Adam Smith, and French figures, such as Cagliostro, Mesmer, and Joseph de Maistre, who were assembled around an Anglo-French freemasonic cult known then as the Martinists. The Bavarian Illuminati were among the pipelines leading into the synthesis of the Martinists as a force involved in the 1789-1815 developments in France. Napoleon Bonaparte s career was crafted around the influence on him of Joseph de Maistre.” [Lyndon LaRouche on Freemasonry,
