Modern France (Lecture 1): The French Revolution

HS1605: History of Modern France
Lecture 1: The French Revolution
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[@erniescrabshack]

God damn! Great video, great history, great volume! I love how loud this plays. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series. Thanks to the creator and uploader.... Also great paintings, cartoons and artwork in the video. I love the cartoon at 42 mins in, hilarious 😂

[@satisfied656]

Dude, you really made me laugh hard with your comment!🤣As i switched to 42 min searching for the #cartoons you mentioned...these drawings are called "caricatures or parodies" back in the days!👏Anyway, i had the urge to tell you, you made my day!🤗Thanks for that, i wish you all the best, Satis

[@jtlon1]

Amazing, what a great lecture!

[@peterdes6792]

What a quality lecture. Strange why channel has so few subs

[@valmarsiglia]

Because most people would rather kill what few brain cells they have left by watching influencer and conspiracy videos.

[@LTrotsky21stCentury]

It's AI. Music track overlays the entire thing, difficult to hear. Not a serious source.

[@grantbarnes3678]

Love the music and ideas-thanks!

[@sandrosocial1989]

Good job, cool video

[@yetunde-1928]

I'm the 200th subscriber well done la me

[@alkabahal4820]

A good lecture on French revolution

[@HariPrasad-uy9dj]

9 Thermidor, Year 2 in the French Revolutionary calendar was July 27, 1794. Some additional points: - The old regime of absolutist rule of the king through ministers was effectively destroyed by bankruptcy. The wars of Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI and their extravagant expenditures required ever more debt. By 1787-88, it was impossible to roll over the debt without raising taxes. The peasants were the only estate which paid taxes in kind apart from their feudal dues to the nobles and tithes to the church. They were in ever-worse economic condition as agricultural prices had risen benefiting land owners in rents and additional levies, but peasants faced higher food prices as they were forced to work for lower wages. Urban workers were also squeezed by unemployment and lower wages and higher prices. In 1787-89, bad harvests and famine raised bread prices to extraordinary levels. That's why the peasants and sansculottes of Paris were ready to act fiercely against nobles, priests, and traitors to the revolution, many workers in cities were able to read the new journals (like those of Marat and Danton) and brought back news and radical views to the country. - The Terror was an evolving reaction to rolling crises. It was not a plot of just the Jacobins led by Robespierre. The "Black Legend" of Robespierre was created by the Thermidoreans who overthrew him and wanted to white-wash their own record in devising and implementing the Terror. The law of Prairial which led to the greatest number of people killed in June-July 1794 was proposed by the Girondins. In any case, counter-revolution, civil war, and wars with foreign enemies all threatened to end the Revolution at any time and restore the Old Regime. For an excellent analysis, see "Terror: The French Revolution and Its Demons" by Michel Biard and Marisa Linton. - Extreme violence, insurrection, and conflict between factions in the Revolution did not end with the execution of Robespierre and his group, and went on until 1799, when Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the Directory and established a military dictatorship which he first called a consulate and then an Empire. The most important social and economic change from the French Revolution was the consolidation of the power of property holders, including those who had bought the lands of the Catholic Church, expropriated and sold by the Revolution to raise funds. Even when the Bourbons were restored on the fall of Napoleon, they did not attempt to undo the land settlement. The right to vote was restricted to male property owners until late in the 19th century. Slavery, abolished by the Revolution, was restored by Napoleon and only abolished decades later. Paris rose in revolt again in 1830, 1848, and 1871 (the Commune).

[@HariPrasad-uy9dj]

Sorry - one correction of fact: The Girondins did not propose the law of Prairial launching the burst of executions in June-July 1794, they had already been eliminated. Those who proposed the law included Montagnards (Jacobins) who later tried to whitewash their role by blaming everything on Robespierre and his associates.

[@historyweeklylectures]

All very good points. There are more detailed videos on the French Revolution in the "Europe and the Revolutionary Tradition" series. For women and the French Revolution, see here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6rWpoOhh9Rjepo. For the slave revolts in the Antilles, see here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmjOlmavZqt2eac. There are also videos in the series that deal with the post-revolutionary reaction and the other French uprisings you mention. Hope you might find these interesting.

[@erniescrabshack]

Thank you guys for all the additional info!

[@Person0fColor]

@@HariPrasad-uy9dj This is correct. 'The mountain" was actually a separate subsect that fell in line with the Jacobians and they instituted the terror many of the more moderate members of society by 1794 were already joining anti revolutionary causes and being executed by the thousands.

[@JonniePolyester]

Superb! Or as the French would have it…superbe! So wished I seen this 25 years ago whilst a history undergraduate.

[@satisfied656]

It´s more like #magnifique as they would say...😏

[@70galaxie]

music is distracting

[@MaheshKumar-os1km]

Very good lecture

[@brunospfc8511]

please more videos !

[@jackf1658]

For those who can’t understand the French pronunciation here are the jacobins names: Robespierre, Saint-Just, Dantan, Marat

[@tay5088]

the lecture was great, tbh i don't think the narration was bad

[@callmeschibboleth7586]

the constant music is very annoying but otherwise its good.

[@AEARArg]

do not agree

[@Why_The_People]

I completely agree. Maybe it is part of hearing loss. Anyway, it is distracting.

[@suemulvihill]

So true, I shut down after the Roussou section.

[@alexanderchronos8694]

Very french indeed

[@whatareyougonnado9305]

Frfr

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

Why the endless music? Doesn’t add anything to the understanding of the content. Shame because the content is good.

[@joshnic6639]

Great video! Please turn down the music.

[@jeremiahpachuau9322]

no

[@Misiulo]

When Part 9?

[@LikeRYTP]

08:40 - 10:12 Prelude for Piano, in F Minor, BWV 881: 12. Andante

[@CarniFitMe]

Can you upload it without the music please? It's very loud and distracting.

[@timothywillette2707]

This is cool but the music throughout is distracting.

[@christianeelizabeth5602]

Does anyone know what song starts at 30:22?

[@chloeholowczenko1806]

Make more videos please ❤

[@christiangerhardt2408]

I like the music.

[@filiperosa7496]

Where is the fonts for this video?

[@kakhaberdjakeli242]

best

[@bearonpine]

The music is enormously distracting.

[@Person0fColor]

Rosseau wasnt necessarily just talking about the government when he talks about "chains" he believes the whole of society needed to be uproot and the individual completely and utterly disconnected from any collective past. Rosseau fundamentally thinks he can change human nature and create society in his own image. Good luck

[@swatigee]

Good video, but the Brandenburg Concerto is annoying.

[@adrienne14151]

excellent video but I do find the music distracting

[@Joseph-fw6xx]

The music is horrible

[@erniescrabshack]

Where are the San culottes today? We have lost all sense of class consciousness, all knowledge of history, and are voting for le pen and trump 😞

[@RobinGarnett-bb9ct]

The 16th July, 1889, a Masonic Congress, destined to commemorate and celebrate the principles of 1789 (French Revolution), met at Paris. The speeches there pronounced by the Masons, Amiable and Colfavru, were published by the French Grand Orient in pamphlet form. From the speech of Colfavru we take the following :- "The Revolution, by embodying in a new social and political organization the broadminded liberal (jooish) doctrines of Freemasonry, by giving to the new world the immortal Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and to France the loyal democratic constitution of 1791, substituted its more energetic and more practical action for the speculative propaganda which had characterized the work of Freemasonry down to 1789 ( FrenchRevolution). From the programmes and resolutions expressed in the Cahiere, after they had been prepared in the Lodges, the National Assembly passed to acts.... In 1789, at the opening of the States-General, the great French Masonic family was in full development. It counted amongst its adepts the greatest minds of the day. It had received Voltaire (chosenite) into the famous Lodge of the Nine Sisters, under the respectful and fraternal patronage of Benjamin Franklin (nose man). Condorcet, Mirabeau, Danton, Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins were all Masons (and jews); the Grand Master was the Duke of Orleans (nose man).... My Brothers, therefore, let us remember those great examples and let us work for the triumph of light, of justice and of liberty." How come that these jays were so entrenched in the government? They had been adapting to the perception of their HOST. In the old days they didn't were directly involved in molding pur perception (like today with mass media). In the old days they sneaked in by looking like the Host people. Moving into positions with the most careful consideration, speaking French, looking French, knowing French history, dining and talking French poetry. Book Reference: The Secret Powers Behind Revolutions by Leon. ///

[@fitofito1001]

The background music is annoying.

[@haroldbridges515]

You lost me right away with the Bach. Why not Couperin, Marais, Rameau or Lully, for example?

[@CarniFitMe]

Exactly, and way too loud

[@ranganathpanigrahi5070]

Plz do more vedio

[@davids4313]

Poor narration and annoying music but thank you for posting, better than anything most could accomplish. Thank you.

[@rebeccamay6735]

Wonderful documentary but the background music is distracting.

[@The_Savolainen]

Dangerous to call something a lecture without linking your sources

[@loke801]

16:55

[@EipsteinClyde]

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[@zealandzen]

Good, but background music is annoying

[@CarniFitMe]

Totally

[@davidmedland1899]

Thirty minutes into the series and looking forward to learning more about French history. 🙂 But I’m finding the narrator’s voice annoying. 😖

[@fintonmainz7845]

Couldn't listen because of the music.

[@Joseph-fw6xx]

The king should've treated the people better people who are treated well don't revolt

[@epic6434]

Their radical public convention became paranoid within it's own people they executed 25 thousand nationals and seemed to abolish the church just to justify their actions as to tell everyone outside the country they have no say here or the intelligence to understand it. I wonder who placed the baphomet statue in the Vatican....they set us up with religion and enlightenment to civility then pull the rug under everyone. Ouch... then again that is what people submit to without a church is politics.

[@starfrost6816]

Why do you hardly explain the social and economic backdrop e.g. the huguenots and other french protestants spreading anti-monarchist ideals during the french wars of religion and many of them becoming puritans, american colonists or revolutionaries by 1789

[@engineersteveo9886]

OMG the same now in the U.S. under the democrat party