French aristocrats framed the Revolution as a war between foreign peoples.

Evidence

A few years later the French exiles actually tried to form an internationale of aristocrats in order to stave off the revolt of those they considered to be a foreign enslaved people. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 440

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘internal foreigner’ framing — an aristocracy regarding its own lower classes as alien — prefigures how racialized Others get constructed as internal enemies, central to Islamophobia readings.