Les Miserables and France's many revolutions | Enlightenment and Revolution | Khan Academy

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[@TheQueerTailor]

We were the ones who killed the king we tried to change the World too fast now we have got another king he is no better than the last we were the ones who fought for liberty now when we fight We fight for bread Here is the thing About equality everyone's equal when they're dead Take your place. Take a chance. Vive la France ! Vive la France!!

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Gavroche !!!!!❤❤❤

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Do you hear the people sing? singing the song of angry men it is the music of a people who will not be slaves again! TO THE BARRICADES!!! VIVE LA FRANCE!!

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[@AnS-ov6nf]

Let others rise To take our place Until the earth is free!

[@sarajaffe939]

make them pay through the nose make them pay for every man@@drrbo8976

[@blackyhimself]

Thank you. I finally understand the French Revolution (s). One video just out-schooled a terms-worth of childhood history lessons!

[@rhan012]

This guy deserves more like! justice done here for the history of Les Mis

[@ClwydEnComu]

How do you write so neat with a mouse? :'(

[@Ghosy2]

I think he might be using a drawing tablet.

[@thaddeuskyle572]

That or a lot of practice

[@Nic0maK]

it some way it's simple : monarchy, republic, empire, monarchy, republic, empire, and finally.... republic

[@legolas35653]

Sir , how was napoleon blown apart??

[@tommarch.4493]

In France, we have an other joke about his name. With could be translate to : "Did Napoleon have a good appartement ?" Because of Bonaparte sound like "Bonne appart."

[@oppositefrog]

great lesson, hope there will be a lot more like this. I have not seen history clarified in such a way as this.

[@tb1rd400]

“Let others riiiiiiise”

[@teresavelazquezrubin2456]

This video is perfect,thanks for the information!

[@jeanneelise5118]

thanks! this is the first time i feel like i can grab what happend in france

[@princessfrancois8225]

Thank u! I was always confused about this specific topic! Now, finally I understand 👍

[@streetzer100]

vive la France ! Sérieusement, cette période de notre histoire est vraiiiiment compliquée, bonne chance pour apprendre ça... (Seriously, this period of our history's reaaaally complicated, good luck if you want to learn that)

[@not8brand]

i came here to hear the characters of les mis critiques of napoleon from the novel, stayed for the great history lesson....probably why I read les mis

[@howertons]

The sound isn't working for me although it does on other You Tube videos. Any advice from anyone. I have checked the volume control, and it is turned up.

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J'adore votre voix et votre réelle aptitude à transmettre votre savoir que ce soit en mathématiques ou comme ici en histoire. Really, I enjoy in seeing your videos !!! thumb up!!!

[@matisselee2304]

Thanks for your video that make the Taiwan people can know the Paris Uprising of 1832.

[@Bwkjam]

France had a bunch of revolutions in the 1800s Russua had a number in the 1900s who will have them this century. (To any one who is going to comment saying French Revolution occured at the close of the 1700s I know but its fall out was mostly in the next century.

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[@reddogpremier]

There seems to be a couple things that need editing. I think you called it "June" revolution once and called 2 different republics the "third".

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Just what I wanted to know... Thank you!

[@RubyFOB]

More history lessons please!

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Thank you for this !!

[@samanthas2300]

It's clear, thanks

[@Huntersthomphson]

Merci. Je aimons.

[@vramarathnam8528]

Thank You. The basics well explained.

[@wsda1000]

Love your history lessons.

[@QuikVidGuy]

"Okay now touch your ear." *touches ear* "GOT YOU! I didn't say Louis XVI!"

[@HigherPlanes]

Louie the 16th looks like George Washington

[@ryancollins1183]

Awesome video!

[@Nic0maK]

well, that depends if you're talking about the official name or the actual thing...

[@theconquerors5971]

Actually Napoleon the third became emperor in 1852 he launched a coup in 1851 that established him as a authoritarian president

[@kfqfguoqf]

Are there spoilers about the movie/novel in this video?

[@tortugazul3737]

Victor Vianna couple years late but yea

[@standowner6979]

You could say that he "used to rule the world".

[@neekk040]

i know its way to late but anyways. @ the guy in the comments whining about french not being our lingua franca: your point is? let me rephrase: by that extend i could claim french is 90% latin and therefore, latin, which was spoken so long ago all over the known world, should be the rightful bearer of the title "lingua-franca"

[@callofdutyrokas]

You should draw a diagram of that cartoon animal farm 1950s I think. And maybe relate it to the French Revolution?

[@misscolorfuldreams]

not about the characters, just historical stuff :)

[@rohailsheikh9105]

misscolorfuldreams Uhmm....You do realize that almost all the characters in Les Mis are fictional, right?

[@jemmytaveras]

True, but I only asses what many historians called a fascist government and a Nazi occupation. And i decided to start from the Ancient Regime 'cause it is, of course where your video starts

[@highspeed21th]

Because they are still alive !! and powerfull ...

[@AlexanderBachmann]

Crossing my fingers for Egypt, Lybia and the other countries of the arab revolution that it doesn't take 81 years for you to finally get your republic. Looking back it's almost hillarious how often they put in place a leader who declares himself an emperor. Looking forward not so much...

[@bendervie]

I'm French, et j'approuve ce message

[@RBdreams1961]

Fascinating!

[@Nic0maK]

Jean Maximilien Lamarque, not "...lean" but good video anyway ;)

[@meggieslater9484]

Why did I think the June revolution was in 1836 instead of 32

[@QuikVidGuy]

I didn't know LeMarque was real I though Hugo was just trying to invoke the name Marx Turns out Capital wasn't published for another 5 years

[@jeromeb01]

But there was a 1st Republic only on paper...Louis the 16th was guillotined in 1793, untill this date France was still a kingdom, then after the coup led by Robespierre in 1793 the ''revolutionnary government" was established, then came "directoire" and "consulate" before the napoleonian empire. Indeed Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was the first president of the republic before becoming an emperor. This Republic of 1848 is called indeed the Second Republic...but the 1st one never came to birth...

[@IttsShowtime]

I dreamed a dream.

[@scottylilacleona9193]

No mention of June days of 1848?

[@Trepur349]

actually it was monarchy, republic, empire, monarchy, empire, monarchy, republic, monarchy, monarchy, monarchy, republic. European History in the 19th century is confusing because if you look at a random country and their government, chances are, 20 years later, that government has been overthrown, replaced and the successor was also overthrown and replaced.

[@Violent2aShadow]

If at first you don't succeed...

[@gmplatz]

Viva la difference...merci!

[@Nic0maK]

yes of course, if you go further. i went as far as the video went, so both of us are right, i probably wasnt clear with that "finally republic" (though i doubt Vichy would have openly called itself facist). you may also go further into the past. starting maybe with the roman empire or its fall. :)

[@eatcarpet]

Napoleon was exiled.

[@meowth900]

I still learned stuff today

[@anlnstts1976]

need to get to the point a little faster

[@sirnilsolav6646]

Napoleon III was a great Emperor for the poor

[@nick0875]

He did help clean up Paris, which helped give it the reputation of being a beautiful city.

[@Aiodeus]

RED! THE BLOOD OF ANGRY MEN!

[@Nic0maK]

no, i stoped at the 3rd rep

[@timothywilliams1359]

Actually, "les misérables" means "the poor."

[@garrisongosling2634]

It has many English translation from The Miserable, The Miserable Ones, The Poor, The Opressed.

[@j.j.j.j.j480]

Garrison Gosling or the wretched

[@Huntersthomphson]

Timothy Williams As a native french speaker the word misérables actually can mean a variety of things in the English translation. For lack of better word it just means well very bad. Victor Hugo wrote it as miserable, but yes in literal translation you are correct. The point is they are in a bad situation.

[@Menegoth]

Sure you did, buddy. Sure you did.

[@Trepur349]

*that last monarchy should be empire.

[@frankph5]

Mi-se-ra-ble !! You just pronounce that word as those past English peasants who were conquered after 1066.

[@Menegoth]

You forgot Vichy

[@flipmaya]

It seemed that the third time's the charm.

[@eaflores93]

more like: monarchy, republic, empire, monarchy, republic, empire, and finally.... republic/socialist/fascist

[@okliam]

Oh Dutch People.

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Susan Boyle.

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Paris commune

[@junior1984able]

loarithms :) :

[@donalfoley2412]

Misérable means very poor.

[@homousios]

able was I ere was in Elba

[@cijmo]

Actually, it's a crap movie. Maybe they should have gone to Broadway/West End to stock the cast instead of Hollywood.

[@TheNotho]

I feel like Khan is unoriginal.

[@frankph5]

French provides more than half of the English vocabulary. As I read that French was spoken from Russia to that huge New France and Canada, from Madagascar to Sweden, to hear that the English language is international and global, it sounds really like a joke.

[@michellebadillo7574]

Get over it.