Modern France (Lecture 1): The French Revolution

music is distracting

Can you upload it without the music please? It's very loud and distracting.

When Part 9?

Where are the San culottes today? We have lost all sense of class consciousness, all knowledge of history, and are voting for le pen and trump 😞

God damn! Great video, great history, great volume! I love how loud this plays. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series. Thanks to the creator and uploader....
Also great paintings, cartoons and artwork in the video. I love the cartoon at 42 mins in, hilarious 😂

Couldn't listen because of the music.

Make more videos please ❤

You lost me right away with the Bach. Why not Couperin, Marais, Rameau or Lully, for example?

Amazing, what a great lecture!

The king should've treated the people better people who are treated well don't revolt

excellent video but I do find the music distracting

the lecture was great, tbh i don't think the narration was bad

Wonderful documentary but the background music is distracting.

Thirty minutes into the series and looking forward to learning more about French history. 🙂 But I’m finding the narrator’s voice annoying. 😖

Poor narration and annoying music but thank you for posting, better than anything most could accomplish. Thank you.

9 Thermidor, Year 2 in the French Revolutionary calendar was July 27, 1794. Some additional points:
- The old regime of absolutist rule of the king through ministers was effectively destroyed by bankruptcy. The wars of Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI and their extravagant expenditures required ever more debt. By 1787-88, it was impossible to roll over the debt without raising taxes. The peasants were the only estate which paid taxes in kind apart from their feudal dues to the nobles and tithes to the church. They were in ever-worse economic condition as agricultural prices had risen benefiting land owners in rents and additional levies, but peasants faced higher food prices as they were forced to work for lower wages. Urban workers were also squeezed by unemployment and lower wages and higher prices. In 1787-89, bad harvests and famine raised bread prices to extraordinary levels. That's why the peasants and sansculottes of Paris were ready to act fiercely against nobles, priests, and traitors to the revolution, many workers in cities were able to read the new journals (like those of Marat and Danton) and brought back news and radical views to the country.
- The Terror was an evolving reaction to rolling crises. It was not a plot of just the Jacobins led by Robespierre. The "Black Legend" of Robespierre was created by the Thermidoreans who overthrew him and wanted to white-wash their own record in devising and implementing the Terror. The law of Prairial which led to the greatest number of people killed in June-July 1794 was proposed by the Girondins. In any case, counter-revolution, civil war, and wars with foreign enemies all threatened to end the Revolution at any time and restore the Old Regime. For an excellent analysis, see "Terror: The French Revolution and Its Demons" by Michel Biard and Marisa Linton.
- Extreme violence, insurrection, and conflict between factions in the Revolution did not end with the execution of Robespierre and his group, and went on until 1799, when Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the Directory and established a military dictatorship which he first called a consulate and then an Empire. The most important social and economic change from the French Revolution was the consolidation of the power of property holders, including those who had bought the lands of the Catholic Church, expropriated and sold by the Revolution to raise funds. Even when the Bourbons were restored on the fall of Napoleon, they did not attempt to undo the land settlement. The right to vote was restricted to male property owners until late in the 19th century. Slavery, abolished by the Revolution, was restored by Napoleon and only abolished decades later. Paris rose in revolt again in 1830, 1848, and 1871 (the Commune).

What a quality lecture. Strange why channel has so few subs

Very good lecture

Good, but background music is annoying

the constant music is very annoying but otherwise its good.

Where is the fonts for this video?

Good job, cool video

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Superb! Or as the French would have it…superbe! So wished I seen this 25 years ago whilst a history undergraduate.

A good lecture on French revolution

Plz do more vedio