How the French Revolution Descended Into Bloodshed (The French Revolution S02E01)

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@@KiLLaKiWi003 Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying The Rest is History isn't great for a history-doc podcast... I just feel like if you are taking a university level history course it should be a bit more in depth/holistic than even a several hour long documentary podcast... Putting the actual lectures aside, in which you should be taking notes, you should be spending time doing assigned readings(which usually includes a textbook as well as primary source readings) while taking notes, doing research & writing papers, interfacing with your professor on subjects/ideas that interest you, writing exams to ensure you've got a good understanding etc. etc. etc.... I don't think this should be a really contentious opinion, but here we are in 2024.

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@@BygoneUser1 A History module (French Revolution) in a Humanities course with some related studies in Philosophy (Rousseau) and History of Art (David) modules covering the same period. By the end of the module on Rousseau, I was losing my religion due the relentless, narrow, propagandist ideological trajectory of the course. I had taken the course to broaden my mind. The approved course material took me into the narrows of academia.

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[@ggusta1]

Thanks. This is the topic that I first listened to when I first discovered your channel. Happy to hear you come back to wrap up the revolution, s2 ep1!

[@restitvtororbis5330]

I really hope you cover the Haitian revolution at some point. The rapid fire policy and regime changes in revolutionary France make the Haitian revolution one of the most fascinating things I've ever read about. They're always months behind events in Paris and it feels like the moment everything is starting to settle down in Haiti, a new political faction has already sent replacement commissioners that have no idea what they're jumping into. It's constant whiplash the whole way through and every piece of news from Paris seems to send the whole colony spiraling deeper into chaos. It's a brutal one though, it makes the reign of terror look downright civilized

[@louiseoliver3453]

And tragically it's still current

[@NorthernObserver]

I love how you lads get so giddy when bloodshed is on the menu.

[@Chief-Solarize]

This is a trait of people who've never been around violence.

[@timelanguid4813]

@@Chief-Solarize I don't think they are consciously making fun of bloodshed/violence etc. They may not have experience of it but we are not supposed to be used to it. Luckily they haven't experienced it. You are lucky if you live through your lifespan without the horror of war/civil war etc.

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Projecting?

[@Pinakij]

Not as giddy as me

[@ted356]

Tom and Dominic …glad you didn’t abandon France!! 😊

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I've been looking forward the resumption of this story. A tangled tale entertainingly told.

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Personne n'attend la Révolution Française!

[@jasondoty9730]

Tom well done with the defense of Lafayette. Dominic well done with the recap from season 1 lol. Love this podcast. Love you both. So much fun. Thanks again lads

[@rhino5100]

We love us some Marquis de Lafayette in the US. His life would be an incredible series on its own!

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There is NO "official dictionary of the French Revolution". It's "A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution" edited by Furey and Ouzef, and had one of your students mis-cited it as such, he'd gotten a rocket. And it's another collection of essays by various authors, all of whom belong to the international collegium of university savants who enjoy delivering judgements like "empty-headed political dwarf" upon men who actually acted in the political and military arena--unlike men like themselves, who can barely keep a seminar room in order and who can't make their mistresses behave. Present company excepted, of course.

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Yessss! I've been waiting for this for months!

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Please do a podcast on Burke's critique of the French Revolution, which is highly relevant to this period.

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Loving season 2! It would be so amazing if you did a multi-part series on the history of Haiti and how the revolts and subsequent independence lead to terrible state of the country today.

[@FireflyOnTheMoon]

too painful to listen to. Painful then and now

[@amywilds8049]

So happy there’s more episodes on the French Revolution!! Me and my bf listened to the first episodes together on long journeys across Japan - good memories, greater content!

[@theitalianliner1726]

Funny you’re coming up with Depardieu as Danton. He did play the historical character in Andrzej Wajda’s film, one I would make mandatory in high school as a complement to Orwell’s Animal Farm. This movie depicts perfectly the descent into bloody anarchy, warrying factions, politicization of the courts, the sociopaths in charge.

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My fave are the small group of Haitians dressed to the nines in French attire for the times representing Haiti.

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TRIH hasn't done it but their sister podcast Empire has, episodes 90-93 from Oct 2023.

[@andrewlankford9634]

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" ...or maybe the first as well as the last. "Will to power"

[@briandubois-gilbert8182]

Thoroughly fascinating history telling. Great research, details as the earlier episodes of the French Revolution. Paints a compelling and gripping narrative of the characters, socio-political climate of the dramatic, horrifying and tragic story of this period. ❤ this!

[@markhamann8030]

Yay! When your French Revolution series ended before this, I was sort of perplexed.

[@FireflyOnTheMoon]

they probably needed a lie down after the first season. I know I did.

[@emmanuellengagne6188]

Great work I love the pace you are telling the story of french Revolution, avoiding the shortcuts and cliches. A strong and true historian work. Would you still be interested in french history, i could recommand the period of the early years of restauration, with Louis XVIII, after Napoleon 1er. This is not a well known part of history, but full of political drama. How the royalists returned to power but faced a society who has learnt from the Revolution...

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At 48:00 in this episode, you describe denouncing as a tendency of the radical left, and not as a story as old as time related to power structures in general. The only reason you are associating this with "the left" is because this is one of the first times they have gained some semblance of power. Europe is filled with denunciation mania associated with both the left and right throughout history.

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Gorgeous chat, lads. Perfectly poised. One question I've always had about the French revolution - is it significant that so many of the revolutionaries are lawyers and jouernalists? Is the astonishing violence that gets unleashed at least partly the result of a leadership used to brandishing words as their weapons, with liitle awareness of where all the rhetoric takes them until it's too late?

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I literally just finished the last episode of the first set of shows a few hours ago. What a treat!

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“ The traitor that wears the mask of patriotism “ Can’t help but see the parallels that are currently going on in the states.

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That was sunlight? I thought the duality of Toms nature was made physically manifest. Im a bit disappointed.

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58:10 Gentlemen, I don't know you, but you are great men, you're the representatives of humanity in the Republic. (There ya go. From the audience of "The Rest Is History".)

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Excellent stuff. Having a degree n European history, l always find the French Revolution fascinating. It gives birth to so many tropes that have dominated modern politics down to the present day. As Chou En Lai once said, when asked what he thought was the significance of the revolution: "it's too early to say!"

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Has anyone seen Wajda’s ‘Danton’? Pretty great. Quite the atmosphere.

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Jefferson is rather typical for a continental congressman when he calls for bloodshed then does a runner when things get a bit too bloody

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(sing) "Don't be fooled by the jewels as I rant-on, for I'm still Danton from the Canton".

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“Competence and the regular payment of taxes”, but are they fair taxes? Taxes levied without representation? Taxes on the people but not on the oligarchy?

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Great ! You only forgot two points : 1 That Robespierre asked the National Assembly to abolish the death penalty. 2 That he obtained that the members of the National Assembly could not be candidates for election to the Legislative Assembly

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They already stated several times that robespierre voted against the death penalty .

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I'm in America, I've always been a history junkie. It feels like so much horrible history repeating itself. I'd forgotten how young the revolutionaries were. 😢

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Live this!!!

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I need a tshirt that says, "I like competence and the regular payment of taxes".

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I've been trying to track down a book on the terror that one of these guys hightly recommended. Does anyone remember where in this video it's recommended? Was it by David Adress THE TERROR?

[@jme_a]

Full video series drop alongside audio for RIHC members! I demand it! We demand it! Viva la revolution!

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[@launiesoult3248]

The French revolution is a very complicated piece of History if you tear it down to its bare essence it's very simple

[@gordonhogan]

....and meanwhile the Sun gets closer to Tom as he tries to shield his eyes from the oncoming doom....

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Please do an episode on Casanova 🙏

[@jenjen.rutherford8559]

Why ? He has no relevance in the world and achieved nothing of note

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I listened to the first series and was VERY disappointed that this wasn’t covered.

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