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“It was violence that made the revolution revolutionary”.
The storming of the Bastille is viewed by many across the world as a moment of celebration, when the French people were liberated from the shackles of tyranny and royal despotism. Yet, it was also a moment of horrific violence and chaos, culminating in countless acts of blunt, bloody murder. With a widespread sense of social unrest throughout France at the beginning of July 1789, things finally reached a peak following the King’s dismissal of his finance minister, Necker, a great favourite of the people. The arrival of 20,000 troops into Paris to maintain order triggered even greater panic in the streets, with the already febrile atmosphere being whipped into a frenzy by firebrand orators. Finally, with fighting breaking out between the soldiers and the mob in the Vendome, and then spilling over into the Tuileries Gardens, the Royal Commander of Paris gave the order to evacuate the city entirely, leaving it in the hands of the rioters. It was then that the mob, in a final desperate effort to procure gunpowder for its plundered weapons, turned its sites on the Bastille, the ultimate monument to repression …
Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss the apocalyptic Storming of the Bastille fortress, and the truth behind the prison’s famously grotesque reputation. Given the gory events that unfolded on that momentous day, was violence innate to the French Revolution from the very beginning – its driving force – and its bloody denouement therefor inevitable?
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23 Comments
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Please talk about Talleyrand! He survived the French Revolution by always having to attend to land that he owned in America 😂.
His DEATH BED is Historic!
Wait…. you're telling me that modern 1980s French scholars bad-mouthed one of America's best friends? Sorry, not willing to accept their opinion of Lafayette.
PS and how did France honor this local hero/supporter of revolution in America? Persecution, impoverishment, prison, banishment…?
Desperate for more illustrations. Great history anyway. Thanks.
I only concern is that we as historians and history buffs tend to set these people in a different mindset than ourselves. We do better to look at them as equals and the same as we are because here we are.
Great job guys, extremely informative! Keep'em coming. Viva la France!
30:40 "You might say that all Frenchmen are vainqueurs one way or another." We saw what you did there, Dominic 🙂
'it started with wax heads and ended with real heads'
I suppose the Kathy Griffin/ Green Day analogy culminating in an assassination attempt would be too embarassing for Dominic to mention. History rhyming or have some people just got it coming.
I'm looking for The French Revolution part 6 but can't find it. Help please. Thank You!
You bring these events to life in a thoroughly entertaining style.
Thank you!
French here. I knew more or less all that, but it is very well tell! Can't wait for the next episode.
I went to George Washington’s Estate, Mount Vernon, a couple years ago and they had the key 🔑 to the Bastille in a glass box on display. The tour guide said it was given to George Washington by La Fayette. It was so wild to see and the tour guide said it was the only key left. Thank you so much for this wonderful series! You both are fantastic storytellers.
Ah, Lafayette–controversial 200 years later, which is a kind of immortality. To the French right, he betrayed the monarchy; to the French left, he betrayed the Republic. And to the French intellectuals, he was a dwarf because he didn't leave behind volumes of theory and philosophy to parse endlessly. In fact he was completely loyal throughout his life to the constitution written by the assembly and the constitutional monarchy they established.
They also slag him for not being the hard man to rule Paris. This from academics who can barely keep order in a seminar room, and who can't get their mistresses to behave. Simon Schama–not an American (yet)–gives him credit for keeping the lid on for as long as he did, and longer than anyone else until the Directory.
I'm French, and thanks to Youtube recommendation, I discovered this Channel. That's great, I'm hooked. Like and Subscribe.
The French really like(d) beheading folks.
Just delightful to learn more about history in this way. Also I’m glad Tom is now facing the correct way – things have not been good in England since his camera was moved for the previous episodes!
The new 'special effects' are annoying and distracting. Please keep the focus on the chemistry and the history.
Brilliant
London Calling.
Great off the cuff remark. Perhaps 'J Arthur Vainceurs"…
Being of an age, I acquired any knowledge I have of the French Revolution from the Roger Brook series of books by Dennis Wheatley. Read them as a child and loved them. This period was very extensively covered but these guys put in so much else too. Thanks guys.
Oh you two are dragging us in again!!! The telling is epic. Your expressions are priceless. Thank you, thank you!