The Coming of the French Revolution

[@chrlmmartin7776]

Fascinating lecture

[@mcfontaine]

As always a fantastic lecture from John. One of my absolute highlights of KZbin is when I see another lecture from John released. Thank you.

[@pound7816]

lecture is pretty good . Def not heavily corrupted like most modern historians. Two economic comments that may help : 1) Gov debt price is pegged to confidence.- Printings is debasement which is technically a form of bankruptcy - an unavowed and partial bankruptcy. Debasement means price falls, but most people see the price of all goods and services and imports increase and mistakingly say "prices are going up" instead of "gov is bankrupting the nation to make more money to pay bigger bills". 2). confidence generally falls in steps not all at once. Lets just say France the necklace affair was a big crack. Maybe the first.- But thats when people started looking around and began to predict "this will not work" . Once hope in gov order dissipates, usually after many events chipping away small drop or hammering it down big, the crash is rapid. People just lose hope one day because of some event is just too big or one too many small daunts. France finally bankrupted in 1789-90. A Versailles Europe crashed in 1931, but the cracks were obvious for years and growing

[@SB-xt5jk]

What was going on with the editing? That aside, great lecture. Dr.JF is definitely up there with Kotkin and Bonevac on YT for most engrossing history talks.

[@kennethlowrey2902]

This guy is absolutely amazing.

[@fullc0de]

@ 25:10 "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." - Nixon

[@tommyodonovan3883]

King Louis was trapped between a rock and a hard place, the French kings were puppets for the free loading Church and Nobles, they were never going to give up their tax exempt status.

[@inappropriatern8060]

The American sequel is gonna be 🔥

[@rolandrothwell4840]

Madame Roland was very influential in the French Revolution. So women, their voices and wants were heard. Women's emancipation was years away, though. The French Revolution was a middle-class revolution

[@piushalg5041]

Louis the 14th was not the grandfather of Louis the 16th but his great grandfather. Something a historian should know because it is a non disputable fact.

[@philipsudron]

're- had Facebook existed then and would people have cared anyway?' That is an interesting thought. I suppose for our times FB equates with the advent of the printing press or the emergence of newspapers during the early 18th century.

[@rolandrothwell4840]

Constitutional monarchy can be very democratic. An example is Norway 🇳🇴 who gave women the vote in 1905 or the Netherlands 🇳🇱 where the monarch is only representative. Many republics have developed into authoritarian regimes, so I don't quite agree with David, although he's brilliant on the French Revolution 👏

[@aaronrodriguez110]

@0:45 uh, pardon? John has to be eating his words in retrospect to this.

[@williamsims412]

It’s funny, or maybe ironic and not so funny, listening to the insertions of his political viewpoints into these historical talks, especially the one about the press, which has in the two years since he gave this lecture become the enemy of the people by consistently telling lies to fit an ideological narrative rather than investigating and reporting all the nuances of a topic, so regular citizens can make informed judgements.

[@haji178]

“Enemy of the people” Ha ha Is the Covid vaccine also an enemy of the people you wacko

[@suechef1170]

Hello😂 US is off the deep end. Just waiting

[@edwardrichardson8254]

They wanted a pluralistic society with upward mobility and debased monarchy and church, what they eventually got was an Italian artillery officer crowning himself Emperor with the blessing of the Pope and biblical bloodletting in military adventures. You have to love history. Nothing is more ironic. The parallels to the insane Russian “Revolution” (a military coup by the armed wing of the Bolsheviks) are striking and it’s not for nothing Stalin expected post-war France to be the first domino to fall to communism in the Western alliance. You see the French now living under crushing taxes (their tax revenues are HALF their GDP) while screaming for more welfare, little has changed.

[@Fallen420chan]

And yet we are ruled by self-elected corporate forces that are neo-imperial pillars on a global scale which drive every aspect of our real politic and shape the way the public views literally everything. America with corporate consolidation unchecked results in an oligarchy of few that dominates the mind like the barons and noblemen of the past. Who is King and Queen now? Disney. Turner. Murdoch. This is not freedom when you pull the surface back and watch how we are manipulated. You see, if we want that freedom back we have to actually work together and disregard the bullshit. Or we can get another Terrors. You see how this Coronavirus gets us when the state borders start getting sealed - you mark my words, Ed - we're going to be reminded very harshly what happens when you feed TERROR to people on the news for decades and suddenly make food, work, and water scarce.

[@flashers.5212]

Fallen well that was a waste of your time m8, the trick with a KZbin comment is...keep it short.

[@pastorofmuppets4552]

At least Napoleon made the carriages run on time

[@edwardrichardson8254]

@@pastorofmuppets4552 I'll take him any day over the coupsters and assorted nutjobs of the so-called "French Revolution."

[@zacharypayne4080]

In the USA..we tax the rich more and the middle class less and the poor not at all..

[@tomcat1020]

You may think that but its not really true. See the Panama Papers, offshore tax havens etc. Amazon doesnt pay Federal Taxes either

[@hagengilbert8102]

@@tomcat1020you’re talking about the MEGA rich, he’s taking about people with a 1-3 million, they get taxed very hard.