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Goethe accompanies Carl August with the coalition army to Valmy

On the 1792 campaign into France, Goethe rode with Duke Carl August among Prussian-Austrian coalition forces and later dated his presence at Valmy. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

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On the 1792 campaign into France, Goethe rode with Duke Carl August among Prussian-Austrian coalition forces and later dated his presence at Valmy.

Context

He did not design Brunswick’s manifesto. He did choose to go.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A memoir of cannonades is not a peace treaty.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Dated act under Goethe as author, councillor, or later named subject. Printers, duke, and museums share labour.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Cambridge Companion to GoetheCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Klassik Stiftung Weimar — Goethe institutionsKlassik Stiftung Weimar · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. contributed toFactGoethe accompanies Carl August with the coalition army to Valmy
  3. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Goethe accompanies Carl August with the coalition army to Valmy. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/go-campagne-frankreich-1792

https://factrail.ai/facts/go-campagne-frankreich-1792

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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