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"I pray for people to find compassion and to learn from the past." == Exactly! History repeats only if we don't learn from the past mistakes. Unfortunately, there are so many who don't. They'd be driven by the emotion of the moment and take an action that doesn't make sense when they look it back in the future as a part of the history. As a result, we'll all have to be dragged into it whether we like it or not.

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People aren't starving yet. They could tolerate tyranny, but the moment there was no grain, the royalty and nobles were out in less than a year.

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damn, only if this was what school would be like, a vid on the computer that u can pause and take notes on, then take a test instead of spending days on the same subject

[@chlov]

even as a french it's useful to have those lesson, thanks dude you rock (also it's pronouciated cham deu marse and not champe dé mar)

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Thank you so much. Because of you, I'm getting the point of this revolution. There are lots of stuff in books, but you tell us the main points. EXAM, HERE I COME~

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'the Duke of Brunswick, this dude....' #LOL he breaks all these down n keeping it informal at the same time. awesome Sal dude... awesome...

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2 dislikes, Maria Antonieta and her husband.. :P

[@TreasonousBastard]

(cont.) So to argue that the French Revolution was a bad idea from the start would seem difficult for any patriotic American. To argue that it went poorly is easier, but consider: 1) We did not have to overthrow a government entirely; our Revolution was a secession; we didn't have to decide what to do with George III; 2) we were separated from Europe by a big ol' ocean and the powers that ended up at war with France were not arrayed against us due to that and also their enmities towards Britain.

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One must not talk about the Bolshevik Revolution and the Concentration Camps of Communist Russia....

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haha, he was totally building the suspense on the name of the artillery captain. And when he gave the answer... I should've known that. too bad they didn't teach it at my school.

[@TreasonousBastard]

Except that without a revolution France would have remained subject to an autocratic monarchy; Louis XVI seems like a sympathetic victim because he was sort of dull and bungling, but he was a tyrant still. This revolution was also informed and inspired by the same Enlightenment ideas as the American revolution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen bares a striking resemblance to the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. (cont)

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Any French revolution vid is 100x better than the one History Channel made.

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Thanks for the video..

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this nice video for notes

[@TreasonousBastard]

And finally the excesses of the Jacobins and the Committee for Public Safety can only be understood in the context of that war. France could not win it without quickly suppressing internal counter-revolutionary factions and dragooning everyone into line behind the Revolutionary cause. The French Revolution was likely a necessary step in the process of getting rid of monarchical absolutism and (not mentioned much) direct Church control of politics in Europe. Also it gave them the metric system.

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"let me write this in a bloody color" haha. Hope this isn't video isn't for preparing us for history to repeat itself. Well, revolution is fine, but hopefully not quite this bloody.

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what's their justification to declare war on Austria?

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Sal, what do you mean , the nobles started hoarding the grain, what did that mean?

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How does one logically explain that the answer to poverty is a war?

[@carlmoore3215]

18:23 Would that be 1793, not 1792, for setting up of Public Safety? You've already had Louis XVI being guillotined in Jan. 1793.

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@tan240sx u mean lots of parallels with every revolution in every country since the dawn of time =P

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gotta love the repubic of France

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I hope this is accurate! Else I got my facts wrong.

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Khan Academy Committee of Public Safety was formed in 1793, not 1792. :)

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+Ashutosh Rai That name is hillarious

[@indiantantric]

Morgen Vade As in ?

[@morgenvade4768]

Ashutosh Rai Committee of Public Safety it sounds like something kids make up in Safety School. History is filled with a funny spin on names.

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+Morgen Vade hahaha...so true.

[@tan240sx]

Holy cow, lots of parallels with China's Cultural Revolution.

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18:15

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what programm does he use to write like that?

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Maybe he just uses paint with a black background

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Antonieta...

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Why doesn't he pick up the phone? :p

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is it freezing at 6:45 for anyone else?!

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@tan240sx video suggestions?

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7;40

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@mysty0 What's wrong with it?

[@romesfinestlegion]

y am i whatching this. ow well...

[@kalepensel]

it's just like Warcraft III Reign of terror, lol

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this video is helpful

[@billy1496]

To hold off prussian and other armies, france relied on mass conscription (known as the leve en mass)

[@tan240sx]

@CaptainFluffy6644 No, most revolutions did not have a bloody and chaotic period where revolutionary factions turned on each other en masse. Most revolutions did not have "Reigns of Terrors." Also, most revolutions didn't result in as radical political and social(Cultural) upheaval.

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Why were nobles emigrating out of France ?

[@Raulartilesm]

Because the new state was stealing them. Later the state begun murdering people and...

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He wrote Repubic xD

[@rubiksisaseasyaspi]

Well, you know, except for about half of America.

[@AssassinAfzal]

Except instead of starving the people are obese

[@661199Joseam]

@MarxistBrutalMatt hahah check yo spelling on that last sentence x3 now thats a funny typo

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phone went off

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U.S. is not starving?

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Like if Mrs. Teichmiller sent you here...

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LOL Re-PUBIC

[@MaohannadZhar]

In my history book it says that Thermidor was the new name for august not July.

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Thermidor is from 19th July to 17th August

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hahaha 11:55 - re-pubic

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LOL