How The French Revolution Plunged Europe Into War (The French Revolution S02E02)

[@patriciablue2739]

Just awesome work from you two…and all the behind the scenes folks. Thank you.

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@jamestaylor841]

​@restishistorypod where is episode 3 of henry V agincourt lads

[@SkaCrazytown]

​​@@jamestaylor841 Spotify already has it!

[@jondean6203]

Dear Dominic & Tom, I just recently discovered you on on yt. I really enjoy your lectures, I have listened to many. Please, keep on. Cheers👏

[@mistermousterian]

Best channel on YT right now.

[@murphyorama]

This is just a brilliant history lesson. This video series will become a treasure like Kenneth Clarke's Civilisation.

[@electronvalanche4866]

This is by far the most interesting, educational, humerous and entertaining piece of KZbin content I have come across. Thank you guys for this gem of a channel. History has never been so much fun.

[@stevendaleschmitt]

The only thing I dislike about your show is that you don't release them as fast as I can watch. Strong Work, Love every episode. Keep on topic with the French Revolution - colorful, charismatic and relevant - Louis IX through WW1.

[@andrewkinsey4463]

I wish that we had been taught history in this brilliant discursive fashion - humorous anecdote mixed with objective detail over and over again - quite fantastic

[@aidanbarrett9313]

Fascinating your description of the Fall of Papal Avignon. It is indeed an overlooked element of the French Revolution that symbolized the beginning of the end of an era.

[@jocelynconvery3462]

Another brilliant and entertaining history talk. Thank- you!

[@anthonyridgewood2509]

I love that even when one of you reads the opening quote well the other will inevitably mock the reading somehow, even with just a small chuckle. One can never let one’s friends get too confident 😂

[@theshrubberer]

and the inevitable claim by the quote reader to have really nailed it!!!😂

[@djgingecoldwell10]

This is the charm of their podcasts, so enjoying them, and the information contained, it's like Netflix boxset, you hear one and you must, hear the next. Great work 😊

[@reecemccullough4829]

Incredible show. Keep it up, as soon as the algorythm picks it up like it has these past few months you both will be youtube history royalty - well deserved too.

[@YoannMartin-fh7gi]

Very interesting as a frenchman listening to this perspective,

[@zennojikaku3595]

One person you mentioned earlier in the episode survived the Revolution: Lafayette. Great show! Thank you both.

[@stronnictwopopularow6718]

Yes, that traitor of the Republic Lafayette

[@RememberThePallaWallas]

​@@stronnictwopopularow6718One country's traitor is another country's hero.

[@hnnsy]

I think they mentioned quite a few who survived the revolution.....I think they were referring to the principal movers, not every single namedrop.....

[@tomcervo]

@@stronnictwopopularow6718 Not to mention all the facilitators of Thermidor who had enough of the mad bastards on the Committee of Public Safety. And one N. Bonaparte who put the republic to bed. All traitors!

[@francescaderimini2931]

@@hnnsyTalleyrand being one

[@edwardloomis887]

Thank you for the "Plotting Prince Harry" reference at 23:03. Perfect.

[@gbickell]

What a splendid channel! Brilliant. Thank you so much.

[@pmuk4]

Another brilliant episode, thanks both we all really appreciate it!

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@j.b.3825]

@@restishistorypod Yes! Many thanks to all of you!

[@karigirl3569]

This is what I’ve always meant when I tell my kids how fun history can actually be. I’ll be having them listen at every opportunity.

[@Floxflow]

Excellent conversation.

[@marchirving7316]

"It's what Jesus would have wanted."😂

[@kaloarepo288]

Ironically the emperor Leopold II during his long reign as Grand duke of Tuscany (1765-1790) , was the very model of a reforming monarch and headed the first state in history where torture and the death penalty were abolished!

[@kets4443]

Blood runs thicker than water..

[@kaloarepo288]

@@kets4443 After the death of his brother Joseph II, Leopold became the Holy Roman emperor and as part of the festivities of his coronation as king of Bohemia in Prague, Mozart's last opera "The Clemency of Titus" was commissioned and performed. The subject was a plot against the Roman emperor Titus by a jilted lover -the Jewish princess Berenice called in the opera Vitellia the plot to kill the emperor failed but Titus was magnanimous and forgave all the conspirators. Little did Leopold know but his family will be faced by similar plots and conspiracies which would call for even greater clemency. This opera by Mozart though not as well known as his other masterpieces is an absolute master work.

[@knightmarepilot4832]

@@kaloarepo288 Interesting historical episode.

[@kittysawtelle5552]

Very very cute presentation..clever..I’m in love!

[@victoriator8863]

You both are perfect as usually. I like the way you tie up the old events with the current ones -- invasion of Ukraine by Russia and Putin twisting the truth any way possible.

[@helloalexisoneill]

Exactly the way things are playing out today. It’s incredible to see history repeat itself.

[@killerswami]

That’s Montecito, California, where your royal British dissident is living. Right down the road from me.

[@a.i.newton847]

The details in your reading of the history of French revolution are on point. Hate to muddy the waters with a request or two, i.e. to explore some of the motivations of the other players outside France active both culturally and politically. The naive artistic responses are both simple and profound, Beethoven and William Blake (Classicism which is both Roman or Greek promoted anachronistic Renaissance ideals that gave rise to the 'Romanticist project' linked to empire and colonialism) - the fashions, civic attitudes seem to spread in advance of French military adventurism and inevitable collapse under Napoleon Bonaparte. The Salon became an art gallery and then a museum to educate the citizens. The colonies would buy French art and adopt French taste without necessarily speaking the language or following the politics. Despite the separation of geography the influences are there to this day.

[@Earthstein]

So very applicable to the current situation in the USA. I am enjoying this series to the fullest.

[@Manchesterliberal]

Thanks for this great podcast. Two comments: the French celebration of 14 July was called Fête de la féderation, first celebrated as you mention in 1790. You mention von Fersen; he was based in Bruxelles till 1794.

[@fishbone2921]

Goodness. I was ready to take arms ! What an opening!

[@theshrubberer]

i love this channel

[@Metoki-cq2sf]

Why do I smile everytime they call us tax evaders? 😂❤

[@BenTrem42]

_Fine grained_ ... luvin' it!

[@Bob-d3c6h]

Awesome!

[@89volvowithlazers]

Amazed how much all were connected on a personal level. Furstenburg being mentioned just nuts

[@colindunnigan8621]

"Tax evaders? TAX EVADERS? Americans are tax evaders?! That is a calumny sir, a unfounded calumny, Americans are certainly NOT--" "Oh. Right. THAT. Never mind..."

[@eliech7112]

Awesome videos as usual merci beaucoup

[@charlesandrews2360]

I can't believe I laughed out loud when you described the atrocities at Avignon but only after you called it "very poor Behavior". I love this show

[@joebombero1]

Please do an episode into the Bourbon Restoration. I never knew how King Louis XVIII ever made it to the throne. There has to be some fantastic stories behind this massive change in governance

[@marieparker3822]

'The tax evaders in the American Colonies' - I love it!🙂

[@FiveLiver]

Wasn't that in another episode?

[@philipbrooks402]

Louis and MarieAntoinette - reminds me of the behaviour of a certain Charles I after his capture in 1646 and his subsequent behaviour.

[@thierrysanchez3161]

Il y a un argument infaillible de Robespierre qu'il va reprocher aux députés. Cet argument constitutionnel figure dans la Constitution de 1791. La France s'interdit toute guerre de conquête. "La Nation française renonce à entreprendre aucune guerre dans la vue de faire des conquêtes, et n'emploiera jamais ses forces contre la liberté d'aucun peuple. - Or les raisons de la guerre sont clairement exprimées par les Girondins qui sont de piller les pays attaqués.

[@sharonwilliams6553]

Could you tell the story of Thomas Alexander Duma father of Alexander dumas. He has a fascinating story. He tried to overthrow napoleon

[@paivitiitta1884]

Thank you.

[@MyAladdinSane]

Had to chuckle at the suggestion that a streaming platform would relish the opportunity to adapt a story calling for an enormous ensemble cast of "character actors". I think the days of ambitious Netflix programming, such as they were, are long gone.

[@hendersonbradshaw3098]

I’d have liked to see Bing & Bob on the road to Waterloo!

[@allensacharov5424]

hilarious

[@ltownvidz]

As an American Dominic calling us the tax evaders is hilarious I love his unwavering British patriotism

[@leshazell6050]

We have to deal with the enemy within who in their right mind would say that these days ?

[@Historiansplaining]

Britain was a major rising power at this time, but they had a very small army and there was no threat of a British land invasion. Since the 1500s, Austria, or more properly, the Habsburgs, had long been the real enemies and rivals of France, threatening to dominate all of Europe or perhaps the world.

[@MaShcode]

The French Revolution, especially the terror, is an important slice of history.

[@stronnictwopopularow6718]

As a compatriot of Stanisława Przybyszewska, it is my duty to defend the honor of Robespierre against the slander of the Anglo-Saxons!

[@mkl0707]

Please can we do the Ghosts of Picadilly

[@MrDavey2010]

How do I subscribe to get all the episodes?

[@stevendaleschmitt]

I don't know the source of this catchphrase, or how true it is - but it certainly applies to Louis XVI: 'People in power will do anything within their power to maintain it, until their personal or their family's safety is threatened, and they'll preserve the status quo the moment they obtain the status.' In the U.S., Nancy Pelosi is a contemporary example, retiring shortly after the near fatal assault on her husband; also Diane Feinstein, as her powerful staff enabled and propped her up when she had been clearly incapacitated for some time. On the other side of the coin, (maybe the edge?) political threats and violence are epidemic in the U.S. electoral system, and the best among us want nothing to do with power or government.

[@MichelleBeahm]

Been binging

[@daviddykema209]

You guys shouldn't have low self esteem 😂😂

[@dynamohums]

I think that was Dominic being very tongue in cheek 🤣.

[@scottscottsdale7868]

Trump is right there with Louie

[@hazchemel]

​@@scottscottsdale7868hahaha who today is Robespierre?

[@scottscottsdale7868]

@@hazchemel Steve Bannon obviously.

[@hazchemel]

@@scottscottsdale7868 ehhh

[@stronnictwopopularow6718]

Yes, yes, Robespierre was a paranoid, it's not at all that the internal enemies turned out to be real, there was no betrayal by Dumouriez, and it was not at all expected that many officers would sympathize with the ancien régime.

[@stronnictwopopularow6718]

Mercy, Robespierre is not Cato, he is Tiberius Gracchus, even Babeuf admitted it.

[@curtbyers]

Is there any pattern of French women being unusually quickly (Seeking neutral description) radicalized?... or quick to "man" the barricades, to resort to creative violence (knitting needles in eyes) vis a vis there female counterparts in other popular uprisings and rebellions?

[@Aknorian]

50:45 I think this perceived "lack of common sense" and "ludicrousy" is a result of the massive pressure and resulting anxiety and depression the monarchs were put through. It is impossible to think clearly under a complete lack of mental health and balance of any sort. No wonder they did such reckless moves, it's just a result of existential desperation.

[@deborahhebblethwaite1865]

Great drama. ❤❤❤🇨🇦

[@Paralititan]

Tom: whats the Mosasaur jaw in your background? Platecarpus? :) Looks pretty real too, that Moroccan stuff can be tricky xD

[@GazilionPT]

In case Saint Domingue (Haiti) is mentioned again: the final "-ingue" is pronounced like the English word "hang", but without the aspiration at the beginning.

[@McVet3]

Walk-in uninvited but dressed as Ivermectin for Halloween LOL

[@airmark02]

I'm going as Climate Change ...😅

[@McVet3]

@@airmark02 lol lol that's a great costume. 🤣🤣

[@McVet3]

@airmark02 I thought of something else silly stupid lol... I said I'm going to wear a CNN costume for Halloween but say I'm going out as a conspiracy theory and want to be referred to as such. So then when I'm with the tricks treating and they say what are you I say A conspiracy theory and they will say nut uh you're CNN and I'll say nut uh, I told you so 😶😆😂😂🫡

[@mihaelacomanescu]

I think they have self-respect. Self-esteem is more about the image one has about oneself and not necessarily realistic. These men go for substance, not for arrogance.

[@Happyheretic2308]

Dear Dom if Mme Roland had a witty salon, it's NOTHING like the Grauniad, by definition.

[@buckynick]

What's with all the adverts

[@stronnictwopopularow6718]

I think there wouldn't have been such terror - honestly, even the horrors of the War in the Vendée - if the madmen of the Gironde hadn't brought war with all of Europe combined with civil war upon France. It is not Robespierre who is to blame for the Great Terror, but the Girondins.

[@laetitiavisagie-gg6kk]

I wonder if Louis & Marie Antoinette found it impossible to overcome the idea that they were ordained by God to be king and queen because of their long lines of illustrious ancestors. Imagine you lived in Versailles which was built by your ancestor, king Louis IV. What went through Louis' mind when he stood in front of the guillotine and God did not descend from heaven to save him and all is lost

[@Dragblacker]

The Bourbons weren't even the royal family in France for that long by the time of the Revolution. The first Bourbon king only came about two centuries before the 1790s, during the French Wars of Religion.

[@ulrikjensen6841]

You couldn't blame the King and Queen for being mad, quite mad and betray "their peuple". EVERYBODY was mad during the revolution and the people were threatening all the way to Versailles; I don't think you can blame them for losing their minds and planning to betray the French people. Especially when you consider that it ended with the little Corsican a-hole.

[@mercurydylan899]

How often are these “conspiracy theories” against money’d interests actually spot-on?

[@schmeed0000]

31:53 in 1491??

[@JerusnamWien85]

That confused me, too! I think he meant 1791.

[@UTubeSL]

48:13 I laughed so hard at that!! 😂

[@Rikard_A]

One could wonder what would have happened if the were no wars during the transition to a constitution monarchy 1791.

[@GunBreaux]

"Nobody likes armed missionaries." Good lord that's true.

[@reneszeywerth8352]

There is a supposedly historically very accurate 5h+ adaptation of the French revolution from 1989 which you can find on this platform. Star studded with people like Jane Seymour, Christopher Lee, Sam Neill...

[@FiveLiver]

Good shout La Révolution Française - 2 parts kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4HMmnR-iM6Sapo kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYK0d4d7n7VoarM

[@tomcervo]

Didn't expect much with the "International Cast of Stars", but amazingly good with some standouts--Robespierre, Louis XVI, the tragic Desmoulins--and decent history. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4HMmnR-iM6Saposi=UUe9rOsxShbawu2i

[@stronnictwopopularow6718]

Robespierre and Saint-Just were against the expansionist war until the end. This was one of the reasons for the fierce conflict with Carnot, who wanted conquests after the Battle of Fleurus - but the triumvirate (Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthon) was against it. Great men.

[@benjaminelicer1307]

May i suggest an interest person to talk? thomas cochrane has a cinematic life too hahah

[@beanbrew]

On a recent comment that said the US should pay the Haitians reparations, I replied it should be paid by France. The response was “what, why?”

[@stevo728822]

And this is when the bloody French national anthem is written.

[@andrewcadman951]

Have to say (grudgingly) that it is the best National Anthem going.

[@johnrohde5510]

Louis XVI may have lost his throne for the same reason James II did; because signing the anti-papal provisions would endanger his soul.

[@sorenaleksander2670]

MrHolland one of your most memorable judgments to me is from Rubicon. You, as a historian, spent PARAGRAPHS on the decadance involved with ENJOYING food, instead of just using food for mere sustenance. CARE to comment on the stupidity of such a comment?🤷‍♂️

[@sloths-df3gf]

On the emigres: too many chiefs and not enough Indians. You need enlisted men - rank and file - to make up an army. Officers on their own are no good. Even when the war opened up the possibility of recruiting from Allied POW camps, the resulting recruits were not reliable. Maybe, had the Allies got a firm bridgehead within France (esp. in the West), the emigre officers could have got the recruits they needed to form a decent counterrevolutionary army.

[@IngleseInFrancia]

Feuillants? A Level history peut etre mais pas A Level French. But still very ejoyable.

[@89volvowithlazers]

The question always becomes was the emigre wealth always going to hang over the new republic? Short answer yes

[@carlcromwell8713]

As an American, we are in favor of both the chocolate and the wenches, especially since we won’t be paying taxes on any of it.

[@Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber]

Axel von Fersen resurfaces!

[@az10sbum1]

Is my self esteem low if i love podcasts from those who claim to have low self esteem?

[@thierrysanchez3161]

S'il y a une chose qu'on ne peut pas retirer à Louis XVI, c'est son courage. Il n'a jamais eu peur, ni lorsqu'il s'est présenté au balcon de Versailles face à 1200 gardes nationales armés en 1790, ni quand il s'est rendu à la Commune révolutionnaire de Paris juste après la prise de la Bastille où Jacques de Flesselles avait été achevé sur le parvis de la mairie 2 jours avant , ni quand les Sans-culotte ont envahi les Tuileries pour l'obliger par la menace à retirer son véto, (ce qu'il a refusé) ni quand il est sorti des Tuileries le 10 aout avec une haie de sans-culotte qui aurait pu le lyncher, les mêmes qui vont massacrer les Gardes Suisse avec des horreurs innommables et actes de cannibalisme, et surtout ni lors de son exécution où St Just à reconnu qu'il "était mort comme un roi". Louis XVI n'a jamais accepté de concéder une ligne de son pouvoir absolu, c'est ce qui le perdra, mais il était courageux.

[@thierrysanchez3161]

Il y a aussi un fait que beaucoup de gens ignorent. Il y a eu un gros problème lors de l'exécution du roi car la tête du roi a été tranchée en deux fois. Sanson a indiqué qu'il avait informé les autorités que la lame était usée et qu'il fallait la changer, mais que rien n'avait été fait. Il est probable que la lame a touché le coup du roi lorsqu'elle s'est coincée car sinon Sanson n'aurait pas parlé d'usures. Il dit qu'il s'est excusé auprès du roi au cours de l'exécution. Louis XVI a eu une mort horrible ...

[@388Caroline]

@@thierrysanchez3161how awful 😢

[@hadexa33]

Allez les gars!

[@TheSonalithatte]

Could you puhleese number the related episodes so nothing gets missed. All French revolutions videos all have different names.

[@ashleybennett4418]

SEASON TWO EPISODE 2. CAN YOU READ???

[@Adsper2000]

They have a playlist, go through that.

[@leshazell6050]

​@@ashleybennett4418not on KZbin so don't be so.......

[@dynamohums]

@@leshazell6050 Sir (or Madam) this is a -Wendy's- KZbin

[@TheSonalithatte]

@@ashleybennett4418perfect example of rude without reason. I hope you are embarrassed at least?

[@rossevans2261]

30:31 Tom grasping to link everything to Protestantism again 🙄🤣

[@tomcervo]

Cut to the chase: "He's outlived his mouth." kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaa9lYyhj8SZm68si=OJDl8Cwlt4A0icD1

[@gustavderkits8433]

Recall that the establishment of the British constitutional monarchy required the execution of one king and the deposition and replacement of another. Was the French Revolution really less bloody than the protectorate? Ask the Irish.

[@brucealbert4686]

I have two arms😅

[@roman..leave.me.to.my.circles]

Observing that liberal nationalism is a phenomenon of the last 250 years, we see that it coincides with the rise of Anglo-American global leadership. The 18th century’s top authority on international law, the Swiss Vattel, already a raging Anglomaniac, writes in 1758 [England, whose opulence and formidable fleets have a powerful influence, without alarming any state on the score of its liberty, because that nation seems cured of the rage of conquest,- England, I say, has the glory of holding the political balance. She is attentive to preserve it in equilibrium:-a system of policy, which is in itself highly just and wise, and will ever entitle her to praise, as long as she continues to pursue it only by means of alliances, confederacies, and other methods equally lawful.] “Narrator: England was not cured of the rage of conquest.” She was learning another way to do it: by infecting her targets with liberal nationalism. The emotional cause of liberal nationalism is that liberal nationalism works-on both sides of the ocean. Among both Americans and Ukrainians, this ideology-even though it has repeatedly led to so many disasters (Q: how awful would Europe be if, if the Bourbons, Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns were still in charge? A: not awful at all?) feels powerful and important and useful. An ideology works not because it collectively achieves the right thing, but because it makes its believers feel good. Ideologies feel good because of the human instinct for power. Unfortunately, this instinct can be so manipulated that “nationalism” becomes a policy whose predictable effect is to wreck a nation to do an empire’s “dirty work.” Since England was liberal, it made sense for England to promote liberalism overseas. This meant that to be a liberal anywhere, even 250 years ago, was to be aligned with England-with her “opulence and formidable fleets.” Imagine if the Foreign Office, for some weird reason, had instead chosen to promote… Zoroastrianism. Imagine if US foreign aid today was only for Zoroastrians; if applying to a US college took an essay about your Zoroastrian faith; if “democracy” anywhere in the world amounted to the rule of the local Zoroastrians... well, the local fire temple would start getting pretty popular. This explains the Machiavellian liberalism. What about Machiavellian nationalism? Liberal nationalism abroad is liberal internationalism at home. What is in it for our domestic sponsors of global Zoroastrianism-as it were? Well, bureaucrats like to feel powerful too. To say the least. And nothing says “power” like having an entourage. If the taxpayer pays you to jet around the world and maintain an entourage… the more mouths you feed on someone else’s dime, the better. Kings were always judged by how many warriors sat at their table; catering was never free. -

[@89volvowithlazers]

Marie A was a teenager quite a lot to throw on Marie dont u think?

[@chrisyoung2179]

Dominic still a true believer in all the pro-jacobin propaganda

[@Revolver1701]

But, really, why Not invade France?

[@abelman-p3x]

The black uniforms with death head s remind me of the SS….

[@leshazell6050]

Why? It wasn't just the SS that wore them if you knew anything about military history

[@humblescribe8522]

The SS stole it from the Prussian hussars Totenkopf emblem.

[@BARGEWALK]

Ace

[@hull5768]

Oui en effe

[@DirtySanchez658]

How do we know this isn't fake history?