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<ref name="Popkin, Jeremy D 2016">Popkin, Jeremy D. A Short History of the French Revolution. London: Routledge, 2016. Print.</ref>
However, the majority of the émigrés left France not in 1789 at the crux of the revolution, but in 1792 after the warfare had broken out. Unlike the privileged classes who had voluntarily fled earlier, those displaced by war were driven out by fear for their lives and were of lower status and lesser or no means.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|title = The French Emigres in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution, 1789-1814 (review)|journal = French Forum|date = 2001-01-01|issn = 1534-1836|pages = 113–115|volume = 26|issue = 2|doi = 10.1353/frf.2001.0020|first = Giulia|last = Pacini|s2cid = 161570044}}</ref>
== Motivation to leave ==
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As the notions of political freedom and equality spread, people began developing different opinions on who should reap the benefits of active citizenship. The political unity of the revolutionaries had begun to fizzle out by 1791, although they had succeeded in establishing a [[Constitutional monarchy]].
Simultaneously, the Revolution was plagued with many problems. In addition to political divisions, they were dealing with the hyperinflation of the [[National Convention]]'s fiat paper currency, the ''[[assignat]]s,'' revolts against authority in the countryside, slave uprisings in colonial territories such as the [[Haitian Revolution]], and no peaceful end in sight. Someone had to be blamed for the failures of the revolution, and it certainly could not be the fault of the revolutionaries for they were on the side of liberty and justice. As Thomas E. Kaiser argues in his article "From the Austrian Committee to the Foreign Plot: Marie-Antoinette, Austrophobia, and the Terror", centuries of [[Austrophobia]] was reincarnated into a firm belief in an Austrian led conspiracy aiming to thwart the revolution.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|title = From the Austrian Committee to the Foreign Plot: Marie-Antoinette, Austrophobia, and the Terror|url = https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/french_historical_studies/v026/26.4kaiser.html|journal = French Historical Studies|date = 2003-01-01|issn = 1527-5493|pages = 579–617|volume = 26|issue = 4|first = Thomas|last = Kaiser|doi = 10.1215/00161071-26-4-579|s2cid = 154852467}}</ref> Kaiser states that the Foreign Plot:
<blockquote>consisted of a massive, multilayered conspiracy by counterrevolutionary agents abetted by the allies, who allegedly—and quite possibly in reality—sought to undermine the Republic through a coordinated effort to corrupt government officials associated with the more moderate wing of the Jacobin establishment and to defame the government by mobilizing elements on the extreme left."<ref name=":3" /></blockquote>
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====United States====
Tens of thousands of émigrés saw America as a compelling destination for multiple reasons. Those who craved peace and stability were drawn to the neutral stance America had taken on the many wars France was engaged in with her neighbors.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|title = The "Non-Aligned Status" of French Emigrés and Refugees in Philadelphia, 1793-1798|url = https://transatlantica.revues.org/1147|journal = Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines. American Studies Journal|date = 2006-06-30|issn = 1765-2766|issue = 2|language = fr|first = Allan|last = Potofsky|doi = 10.4000/transatlantica.1147}}</ref> The majority of emigrants were older and left France as individuals and sought out where to live in the United States based on what professional opportunities were available there.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|title = The "Non-Aligned Status" of French Emigrés and Refugees in Philadelphia, 1793-1798|url = https://transatlantica.revues.org/1147|journal = Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines. American Studies Journal|date = 2006-06-30|issn = 1765-2766|issue = 2|language = fr|first = Allan|last = Potofsky|doi = 10.4000/transatlantica.1147}}</ref> Leaving their homelands with nothing, these Frenchmen were set on finding a way to feed themselves and make a living. Although they appreciated being away from the Terror, the French felt distant from their American denizens and imposed a self-isolation from their community.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|title = The "Non-Aligned Status" of French Emigrés and Refugees in Philadelphia, 1793-1798|url = https://transatlantica.revues.org/1147|journal = Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines. American Studies Journal|date = 2006-06-30|issn = 1765-2766|issue = 2|language = fr|first = Allan|last = Potofsky|doi = 10.4000/transatlantica.1147}}</ref>
Along with the social changes that plagued the French nobility in their new transition to America, the émigrés now had to concern themselves with the issue of finances, as a result of the seizing of their assets during the Revolution.<ref name="scribd.com">{{cite journal|last1=Pasca Harsdnyi|first1=Doina|title=Lessons from America by Doina Pasca Harsanyi|date=2001|url=https://www.scribd.com/book/272861480/Lessons-from-America-Liberal-French-Nobles-in-Exile-1793-1798.}}</ref> They now had to find a way to sustain themselves in a society that did not value them as they had been valued before.
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