The analysis of correspondence now available on a Plan for the Invasion of Bahia, sent by naval captain Antoine-René Larcher to the Directorate of the French Republic in 1797, sheds new light on episodes of the so-called Bahian Conspiracy, as much with respect to the conspirators' social penetration as in regard to aspects of wideranging attempts to to expand the French Revolution previously unknown to historiography.
Colonial Brazil; Bahia: History; French Revolution; Bahian Conspiracy.