Why The French Revolution Was Worse Than You Thought

[@Cavirex]

"People are inherently good." Proceeds to brutally kill all opposition.

[@jupiterrising887]

Few things are as objectively irrational and insane as the idea that people are inherently good.

[@Pioneer_DE]

@@jupiterrising887 You are wrong.

[@jupiterrising887]

@@Pioneer_DE The weight of all recorded history says I'm right.

[@Pioneer_DE]

@@jupiterrising887 Sure, name an example

[@jupiterrising887]

@@Pioneer_DE The French Revolution.

[@danwindsor770]

What these historical movies show us how quickly heroes become villains and allies turn into enemies. There was an old joke I loved. Three prisoners in a Russian jail were locked in isolation wards. They managed to dig a tunnel and meet. The oldest guy says :- "I was locked away because in 1950 I spoke up for Kruschov" The second guy says "I was locked away because in 1960 I spoke up against Kruschov" The third guy says "I was locked away because in 1970 I was Kruschov"

[@pierrecurie]

There's a similar joke in Monte Cristo (forget book). 1 char goes to jail for defying the king. The old guy he shares a cell with is there for supporting the king.

[@mrpickles7812]

I don’t get it

[@CTimmerman]

@@mrpickles7812 Dark humor is like food, not everyone gets it. - Stalin

[@bristoled93]

@@mrpickles7812 Russia has a long history of locking up people for their beliefs.

[@INTJ791]

​​@@mrpickles7812ead again kiddo, 1950 spoke up for kruschov, means kruschov was a popular hero opposition against dictator ruling government, 1960 spoke up against kruschov means he became ruling dictator, 1970 means kruschov lose against opposition, are you 12 years old?

[@Pan_Z]

"Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years." -- Edmund Burke, writing on the French Revolution

[@eltorro7774]

ha, "We;re 'avin a phrenzy!" was a by-word for party for a wee while in my circle in Manchester, England. I never knew it had such historical and philosophical genes! Ty

[@alexg1751]

This quote from Burke is ignoring that the commoners within the estates general did initially try to resolve their grievances via reform. That failed due to the Monarchy and clergys resolve to hold onto the power of a divine monarcht. Common people starving and being taxed into egregious debt generally arent going to sit around and write a peaceful petition.

[@Pan_Z]

@@alexg1751 And how well did the proceeding events work out for the common people? Burke very much was concerned for the ordinary folk of France. What he warned (and predicted) was that eradicating everything a society was built upon, all to try to reforge society in some abstract ideal, would only lead to misery, not progress. Edmund Burke was not some guy advocating for the status quo. He was a vocal proponent for American Independence, harshly criticised British involvement in India, and was one of four MPs to sign a petition for the abolition of slavery. That's why Burke's opposition to the French Revolution is significant. He may have liked the goals of the French Revolutionaries, but knew the reality.

[@aoeu256]

The way that the French revolution is talked about in this movie is very different from the way that I understood it. In the original way it was the King that wanted war against Austria, and it was a way of keeping his power. He was executed after the revolutionaries found a letter he wrote to the King of Austria (which was a relative of his) telling him about the plan.

[@alexg1751]

@@Pan_Z If we're going merely by measuring the livelyhood of the common working people of france (proletarians and peasants) then living standards overall improved both during the revolution and the reaction leading to Napoelons reign. When youre a seriously corrupt ruler taxing the peasants into starvation they arent going to settle for gradual, potential reforms to alleviate their problems, they will take it into their own hands. In this case through a radical experiment in direct democracy.

[@tinachristie9935]

I have long believed that every western school child should have to do a deep study of the differences between the French and American revolutions. That is one of the crucial lessons that history has to teach us.

[@slickmechanical]

Funny thing is though that France was responsible for the success of the American Revolution though finance and consultation. But it was this involvement that simultaneously created many of the conditions for the French Revolution and it gave the Enlightenment Values the Americans championed legs to stand on as an example to those within France who held them that they could do the same. They sowed the seeds of their undoing by intervening in their enemy's conflict.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Ironically , although the French supported America in the struggle for Independence within a very few years Britain and the USA became the closest of friends and France was completely forgotten . ! No doubt , Culture and Familial ties simply reasserted themselves ..?

[@soldat88hun]

The american one is the same just took way longer to reach the same point. Freedom for everyone is just as stupid as saying everyone is equal.

[@billjanke72]

"Like Saturn, the revolution devours it's own children." This is what scares me the most about a full on revolution. One day you're the hero and the next day your head is rolling. With a revolution the power changes quickly in instabilities throughout the land.

[@justin2955]

Sounds like my job hero to zero in a nanosecond 😂

[@magistrumartium]

Revolutions always polarize people so there is no middle ground--you will not be allowed to be a moderate or sit on the fence. "Either you are with us or against us" is the prevailing attitude. The extremists rise to power by sheer violence, then turn on their not-so-extreme colleagues.

[@timcarpenter2441]

I have noticed that those who push for revolution always think they will magically escape this eventuality.

[@genericyoutubeaccount579]

The men who made the revolution and were made by the revolution were devoured by the revolution. "Oh no. I didn't think the Leopards would eat my face!!"

[@Longlivethe4th]

@@genericyoutubeaccount579 in fact the revolutionnaries were eaten by centerists and then counter-revolutionnaries ; there's much more to that story that hat this vid tells you.

[@gp-1542]

When being worried is a crime punishable by *death* You know something went horribly wrong

[@bdleo300]

"The problem with guillotining all enemies of the people, is that you eventually run out of people." -Robespierre (maybe)

[@ChickenMcThiccken]

lets make the lawmakers worried

[@BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB69]

It's insane because not being worried about this would mean your insane.

[@MiaogisTeas]

Progressivism is what happened. It's intrinsically horribly wrong 😂

[@geraldbutler5484]

@@MiaogisTeasHow can you have progress without progressivism? The alternative is stasis.

[@anthony-s026]

“When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box”

[@Chadimus2676]

🥶

[@alessandrocaboni5882]

A VERY wise saying. It's SO.

[@lilithsmith1290]

Lovely comment!

[@johnnymiller7322]

That isn't the end, though. Where will your soul go when your body returns to dust?

[@Elaphe472]

@@johnnymiller7322 You take for granted that there is a "soul". The idea of soul is just a response to the fear of eternal death and ceasing of existing forever. Enjoy life while you can. 😄

[@ej11481]

Edmund Burke got it right. He supported the American Revolution from the start, arguing the colonials were trying to defend their traditional rights to self-government. And he immediately opposed the French Revolution, arguing that a revolution attempting to do away with all existing norms and traditions would end in disaster.

[@nicolascavadini3570]

So anglo-sphere-centrist :) I mean, we did kill a bunch, true, but we've been way more disruptive/bringing the new world about than your "revolutions". Think that in 1793 we gave all men the right to vote, including every freshly liberated ex-slave. While in the US your "revolutionnaires" were mostly slave owners and only cared about their tax money. This pretty much sums it up : pour faire une omelette il faut casser des oeufs ;) [ps : and also : we might be chaotic and frenzy but we have higher ideals than barely money, and our ideals won in the end]

[@MiaogisTeas]

That's because the American "Revolution" was less of a revolution and more of a Secession or rebellion. Revolutions seek to tear down the old and replace it with the new. They're always a tool of the radical left. Americans wanted to preserve and reform their country and way of life, rather than tear down the existing political class.

[@j.4582]

The American ‘revolutionaries’ who loved freedom whilst owning enslaved people, would go on to pursue Manifest Destiny, one of the worst projects of genocide in world history. If the French Revolution was a disaster because poor people having food is bad, then I cannot imagine how repulsive you would, if you weren’t a frothing hypocrite, find the American revolution.

[@ej11481]

@@j.4582 If you weren't a brainwashed woke identitarian with a pathological need to side with anything representing weakness and to hate and resent anything representing strength and success (such as, for example, America), you might've offered a thoughtful and coherent response to my comment rather than the verbal diarrhea that you just spewed.

[@toledochristianmatthew9919]

​@@j.4582not only that but king George iii actually tried to protect the native Americans by limiting the expansion of the colonies.

[@theuniverse5173]

The French revolution and its consequences

[@SIGNOR-G]

Have been devastating for the europeans

[@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING]

​@@SIGNOR-G *for the human race

[@NikasInParis_777]

​@@SIGNOR-G john doyle-

[@NikasInParis_777]

This was said by John

[@SIGNOR-G]

@@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING thats what i said 😉

[@seanward]

OK now I'm chilled to the bone. You take that part from the conclusion about what they revolutionaries thought they were doing VS what actually resulted, and I feel like you're describing what is in the earliest steps of happening today with increasing social and political radicalization.

[@redrustyhill2]

Yep. We have the same exact conditions in america that lead up to the french revolution. Political Elite buffoons proudly flaunting their illgotten gains from robbing the poor working class taxpayers thinking they are safe in their ivory towers

[@davidryan7613]

Chilled to the bone lol go get some fresh air and stop consuming your own farts

[@Rugmunchersauce3]

You're right, fella. I feel the same way. Also if you look at the fall of The Roman Empire, I certainly see many scarey similarities and I think what we know as "Society" today, is on the Eve of Destruction. I could go on further about what was written in the Book of Revelation...things certainly have gone wrong and are getting way out of control. I fear the "future".

[@zaberfang]

Democracy when the voters are idiots and the choices are only the corrupt tend to self destruct.

[@divad6202]

It IS what is happening. Now, just imagine what kind of 'force' is behind this. Nothing new under the sun. Keep God close.

[@AaronOnTheTrails]

There's an old joke I heard one time: There was a young turnip farmer in the south of France who one day had a team of horses come riding up to his farm. One of them announced "By order of King Louis XVI you are required to surrender a portion of your turnips by divine right." A few years later he was out in his field when a team of horses came riding up. One of them announced "Citizen Robespierre has volunteered you to give up some of the peoples' turnips." A few years later he was out in his field when a team of horses came riding up. One of them announced "Emperor Napoleon requires your turnips for the glorious army's conquest of Europe." A few years later the now old man was out in his field when a team of horses came up wearing the emblems he saw many years before, yet before any of them could announce anything he said "who wants my turnips now?"

[@blugaledoh2669]

Interesting

[@konyvnyelv.]

Kings were brutal too

[@srfrg9707]

In 1950 his grand grand grand son saw an army of bulldozers approaching his turnip field. They stopped and one of the drivers announced "By order of the général de Gaulle the state takes possession of all the fields of the area and erase all groves in order to consolidate them into one giant field suitable for industrial agricultural exploitation and large scale mechanized farming of turnips." In the 1990 his grand grand grand grand son, who was now an employee at the local cooperative farm received an email from the European Union telling him that their subsidization of the production of turnips will stop unless they destroy at least 300 tons of Turnips in order to reduce the offer on the market." He had only 200 tons in stock so he lost the subsides. In 2025 his grand grand grand grand grand son was about to hang himself when his smartphone rang. He was notified that he had exceeded his carbon footprint quota for the year and that his social score was degraded from "climatoskeptic" to "polar-bearophobe". As a result he will face a lock-down measure until the end of the year when his carbon footprint quota will be reset.

[@shanesalyers5433]

​@Sυρεr Frσg this is the most schizo response I have seen to a comment in a while. You're doing God's work son. o7

[@anonymous-yf6ur]

​@@shanesalyers5433 They are coming for your turnips, anon!

[@CJ8pl]

The saddest part is that Louis XVI was a good man, embracing modernity, giving away his own power, adopting poor orphans, trying to fix the financial crisis, trying to transition France, and even getting multiple members of his family to leave when he knew it was going downhill. He spent years being a supporter of the people, and then when he attempts to flee, fearing his and his family’s lives, he is put in prison and executed. That’s just tragic. And when he was going to be executed, he tried to speak, but they didn’t even let him finish before starting a drum roll and ~SLICE~

[@heyfitzpablum]

He was a good man, but he WAS out of touch with common people. If you've ever visited Versailles you'll see how isolated the King was. To actually meet with the King, you had to go through about 6-7 rooms, each one requiring a special signed pass. Getting into each sequential room required Approval by a higher authority, by the time you got to the King's chamber (his bedroom) which was the inner abode, you had to have a signed pass from his head counsellor. Common people with grievances had no opportunity to convey them to the King's level, they had to rely on representatives and the French government really didn't have a Parliament of elected officials who could do that. The French Monarchy was an obsolete institution for dealing with rapidly changing circumstances in the late 1700's and the lack of a true elected government made things even worse. It's a shame that so many suffered unjust treatment, including the Royal Family, but you have to wonder if they'd instituted reforms more aggressively earlier on, if it would have come to things like the Reign of Terror? Compounding everything else, the 'Little Ice Age' was ongoing at that time and several consecutive French harvests were failures-in particular grains for bread were scarce. Bread being a main staple of the French diet, poor folks were genuinely hungry-and starving people are not rational.

[@xlittlecamx]

@@heyfitzpablum A king will always at least a bit out of touch with his people, won't he? Louis XVI tried to reform and better understand his people, the system needed to be modernized for sure, but often the system itself didn't let him do what he intended to change. Overall, Louis and Marie Antoinette had good intentions for their kingdom and were good people, but they lacked political strategy and backbone. Even though, can we really blame a king for being out of touch when everything and everyone since his birth have made him so? The system is to blame.

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

The French kings were the very definition of inequality while the poor litterally starved

[@Wolfenstein69924]

A lot of American citizens and politicians at the time felt a debt of gratitude to King Louis XVI due to his support of the American revolution. So they were distraught and horrified when news of the bloodshed reached the U.S.

[@TwiggyKeely]

THANK YOU I love King Louis XVI, he never gets the credit he deserves imo.

[@joshuabissey]

"He was stabbed to death by a moderate" - kinda sums it up.

[@kenwalker687]

As I recall she lost her head over that. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[@neqmisism]

@@kenwalker687yup, Charlotte Corday, executed by guillotiné in 1793.

[@TigersAreTerrific]

@@kenwalker687 Her name was Charlotte Corday, and yes, she did lose her head for killing Jean-Paul Marat - stabbed him to death in his medicinal bath.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

Pax Tube glosses over these events to make asides about pornography and such. Charlotte Corday killed Marat because he was calling for more to die and would not stop. So she said that she had a list of people who needed to die and he invited her over. The list turned out to be Jacobins and she stabbbed him to death and gave her reason that he was such a monster that he deserved to die and after she was to be executed that the killing should stop. But Pax Tube makes it sound like the French Revolution was so crazy that even the moderates were killing for shits and giggles and over petty rivalries when Charlotte Corday is an outright hero willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

[@magustacrae]

That is a spookily funny statement

[@srfrg9707]

One crucial event nobody talks about is what happened in the morning before the fall of the Bastille, the 14 of July 1789. A croud gathered at the Hôtel des Invalides. The Invalides is a military hospital created by Louis XIV for the war invalids. But it is also the headquarters of the military governor of Paris. Therefore the Hôtel des Invalides hosts a large arsenal of military weapons. In the morning of the 14 , a crowd gathered at the Invalides and the officer in charge retreated for some inexplicable reason giving them access to the arsenal. So when, in the afternoon, when representatives of the Assemblée Nationale presented themselves at la Bastille located at the opposite side of Paris, there was also a crowd armed with 30.000 to 40.000 riffles and even a canon. The Bastille was, like the tower of London, a medieval fort converted into a prison. They were only 7 prisoners inside but also the stock of canon powder of Paris. Something the crown did not know but the military governor of Paris knew very well. One can speculate that the governor of Paris took part to a conspiracy with members of the Assemblée Nationale to arm the citizens with the guns from the Invalides and the powder from the Bastille. Or one can believe that was is pure coincidence and the crowd was very lucky that day. Ccharles-Maurice de Talleyrand (the main power nroker of the period) used to say "Agitate the people before using it, such a wise maxim." ("Agitate before using" was usually written on vials containing pharmaceutical beverages back then)

[@SoaringSuccubus]

But you also forget the governor of the Bastille was in the middle of negotiatons with the crowd, when randomly it turned violent. He was probably going to surrender without a fight, but had to forestall and save face for a bit. It didn't help that there were 5000 royalist soldiers across the channel on a field, that had 0 intention of lifting a finger in defense of Bastille...

[@srfrg9707]

@@SoaringSuccubus How comes that ever since the crowd was always defeated by the police?

[@SoaringSuccubus]

@@srfrg9707 Didn't understand the question

[@srfrg9707]

@@SoaringSuccubus You can't expect to negotiate with a crowd armed with 30.000 guns and a canon can you?

[@SoaringSuccubus]

@@srfrg9707 But they did negotiate. And there weren't 30k people at Bastille. All accounts blame the other side for starting shooting and the historical consensus seems to be it was an accident it got violent.

[@josephmiller876]

Pride. The ideas that they were smarter, more just, more benevolent: better than those who came before them led to their own demise. We must not fall into the same trap when looking at them.

[@michellemobakeng5938]

The idea that they were going to do it better than God was their arrogance, little has changed in our generation. We are being prepared for something big for that nefarious spirit travels through the ages but his end is certain.

[@altinaykor364]

more than just that, the fact that they saw themselves as some sort of prophet in Enlightenment, is funny and at the same time provokes my reluctance

[@Zeunknown1234]

​@@michellemobakeng5938which God?

[@michellemobakeng5938]

@@Zeunknown1234 Which God? The one God who created you and who offers you eternal life. Revelation 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come--the Almighty. Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Isaiah 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me,

[@kensurrency2564]

Human hubris. It’s a feature of life, not a bug, unfortunately.

[@welcometothemachine321]

I'm seeing a LOT of parallels of the French revolution with modern America. Holy shit.

[@solomonpbsk3928]

Yeah, history is bound to repeat itself. America could probably experience similar trajectory imo

[@ulrikjensen6841]

Gosh, I am SO tired of hearing Bach's 4. Brandenburger 1.movement being misused again and again in historical programs. It is much too great and noble music for being played as background muzak. There's a lot of french music from the 1700 - 1800 that would be much more appropriate than Bach. Now I can't listen to this feature to the end because of some unartistic fool's poor musical judgement.

[@WokeandProud]

Good.

[@fkdkidie]

I mean it's better than it was. We are always gonna be striving for something.

[@heyfitzpablum]

@@fkdkidie It's NOT 'better than it was'. Certainly America has declined the last 40-50 years, economically and in just about every other way.

[@ShadowAkatora]

How it started: Eat the rich How it ended: Eat themselves

[@Cristofah]

More like Rich people: hey you guys should eat these other rich people but not us

[@jamessilver6429]

You're both correct! FJB ie THE ENTIRE DEMOCRAT PARTY!​@Cristofah

[@fourshore502]

Why didnt they just eat cake instead?

[@cupra2Jock.]

Sounds just like the LEFT.

[@enderbreton8136]

This is why rich people should band together and protect themselves. The foolish rich leads to the downfall of humanity.

[@RoofDoctorsJoanne]

Whenever you hear "Utopian Society" get ready for the exact opposite.

[@RoofDoctorsJoanne]

@@Rowlph8888 That's plain gibberish, we are all much dumber after reading this, thank you.

[@ajmillan9839]

FACTS

[@pauliusiv6169]

@@RoofDoctorsJoanne what he basically means is 'utopians promise heaven on earth but deliver slavery and tyranny'

[@shelleymarquis2887]

Utopia means "no place" in the original Greek so the opposite would be "some/any place". 😅 Just nit picking cause I'm sooo bored by a sweltering rainy summer.🥵

[@spencerd8504]

When you have enough wisdom about the nature of human beings you became less motivated in political activism especially when people call for 'revolutioZns'

[@danielmeadows3712]

I visited Mont St Michel not so long ago. My wife and I went on a guided tour.Our tour guide who is also a historian, explained how beautiful the cathedral and Abby were brightly painted in representation of the garden of Eden. She went on to explain that all the paint was stripped from its walls and frescoes destroyed, I could not understand why anyone would destroy such beauty so I asked who was responsible. She simply said “the French Revolution “.At the time I could not understand how anybody could do such a thing ,watching this now I do.

[@dodongo7819]

Yep in all of france in church's and castles you can come across broken status blason that where ripped off walls and even kings tombs that where destroyed and pillage and the explanation is quite often "the French Revolution" But concerning the painting it could be a bit more complicated. You see painting church was not really a thing just in mont st Michael it's a tradition that was pretty much in all of France. The things is that this tradition had been lost through time more than anything else. The revolution could have been a factor in this but it's not like every church got there wall painting removed. It's a bit similar to the fact that Greek statue where actually painted but it eventually were off and we forgot it was this way before. Maybe it just became a cool trend to have the stone not painted and it stayed like that to this day.

[@arianbyw3819]

The same thing happened during the English civil war.

[@harlandeke]

​@@dodongo7819or...it was the French Revolution..

[@safedreams6241]

If you were chained at birth, you might understand their rage

[@danielmeadows3712]

@@safedreams6241 That “rage “ brought about the death of tens of thousands of innocent people. Your right I don’t understand but I do see revenge when I see it.

[@UndercoverSpaz]

Who's here after the Olympic opening ceremony?

[@SaltAndTheLight2025]

Yep

[@rahulrai7910]

Me

[@SubidubidubiDu1]

Yup the ceremony was a perfect example of what the French Rev was

[@zuarbrincar769]

Unfortunately

[@edwardTisk-ix8nj]

Your mom.

[@hgostos]

Whenever one cares to study the French Revolution to any depth, one quickly realises that it was an absolute horror

[@dvdortiz9031]

Freemasonry!!!!

[@dvdortiz9031]

Absolute error!!!

[@dvdortiz9031]

@Alex G obviously you do not know history!!! and repeat what they have made you to believe!!!

[@alexg1751]

@@dvdortiz9031 Yeah dude we're really missing out as citizens not paying multiple private and public tax collectors in order to service the debt of a failed war by our monarch/s

[@TheHesseJames]

@@dvdortiz9031 history is what we see in the rear view mirror and how we interpret what we are seeing. We wouldn’t be where we are today without the French Revolution.

[@hallamhal]

"Why The French Revolution Was Worse Than You Thought" No, this is just as bad as I thought it was. Maybe it's romanticised in America but this is pretty much how it was taught to us in Europe

[@richardque1036]

It open the door to all the "ism" in the 20th century with a devasting and tragic event.

[@tugalord]

In France its somewhat romanticised, it depends. The Revolution is romanticised by the left and the napoleonic period is romanticised by the right.

[@sheb77]

Not just in America. See the British musical Les Miserable, from the French novel, among others.

[@bijntjeveenstra2455]

​@@sheb77 Im ging to nitpick but you do know Les Miserables is a franchise musical and not a british one? It was a frenchman that made the musical but it didn't catch on in France at the time.

[@BlakeWR81]

Lol, as if you would learn about it in America. Post-1776, we don't learn anything about world history outside of the world wars.

[@Fuego958]

It's fascinating how the Enlightenment idea of "safety" continues to be reinvented as its advocates demand absolute loyalty to whatever snap decisions they come up with and claim the legitimacy of the use of unlimited force to justify their aims.

[@thedemonhater7748]

Which is totally unjustified, unlike when kings just do as they please because “god said so,” and that’s completely based and redpilled.

[@webmaristocrat4052]

​@@thedemonhater7748Kings of yesteryear needed to appease multiple semi-independent institutions to gain power, aka noblesse oblige. The revolution, however, achieved total state control that the kings of old could only dream of. Even French Absolutism didn't achieve such totalizing control over everything. Who knew the "will of the people" always end up in radical totalitarianism. Funny stuff

[@thedemonhater7748]

@@webmaristocrat4052 the revolutionaries never had full state control. Large chunks of France were in open rebellion against the revolutionary government up until Napoleon put them down and later declared himself dictator. It laid the foundation for the modern French Republic, in which the President, while powerful, is still heavily constrained on what he can and cannot do by men and women elected by the people, rather than a small class of land owning aristocrats.

[@webmaristocrat4052]

@@thedemonhater7748 sure, they weren't as effective as a totalitarian body because technology in the 18th century can't compensate to the societal groundwork they're laying down at that time. The Revolutionaries worked so hard to centralize every single aspect of the human being to achieve their radical vision of ultraliberalism, and they did work hard to chip away any semblance of decentralized institution that exists in the past few centuries. The fact that they have to kill and martyr clergymen to achieve this utopic vision of ultraliberalism really says a lot of this whole mass demonic possession masquerading as an "enlightened movement"

[@thedemonhater7748]

@@webmaristocrat4052 “mass demonic possession” please tell me you don’t unironically think this. I was under the impression I was arguing against a modern, educated person and not a medieval peasant screaming “SATAAAAN” or “DEMOOONS” at anything he doesn’t understand.

[@HellenicPapist]

Didn’t learn much of this in school, I can tell you that much. Glossed over. Amazing video, brother.

[@BrBetim]

You know, as garbage of a Developer as Ubisoft is to this day i am still impressed by how savage they portrayed the french revolution in Assassin's Creed Unity.

[@moor236]

Was just about to comment this

[@jeremylawson6648]

damn now i wanna play that

[@atomic4650]

They are a French company so it was the least they could've done

[@moreauclement9702]

Not like you can evade the subject. 40 000 poeple condemned to death without trials, war crime in Vendée, and poeple getting beated down or outright killed in the street for nothing more than disagreeing even slightly with the revolution is hard to pass over

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

Really? I thought that it was quite poor. Not quite there with 'The Ottoman Empire was about muh equality and diversity and kumbayah'.... I've also not forgiven them for painting the British Empire, which for all its faults promoted Common Law and the rights of the individual as 'evil'. The problem with Ubisoft is they tried to make a 'moral' story about an assassin..... yep... you couldn't make it up.

[@wingblader8584]

You should make a video on the Russian Revolution of 1917, I'd be really interested in that

[@ZyklonBeast12]

That would be cool but it would get removed for antisemitism if he told the whole story

[@iwantcoconutv2877]

communism is not even try yet that the whole explaination from russian revolution

[@nickkorkodylas5005]

@@ZyklonBeast12 _>implying the (((revolution))) in this video was French ITFP_

[@midosch7639]

​@@iwantcoconutv2877and communism mustn't be tried any time again because it always led to the cruelest tyrannys in human history.

[@gratefulguy4130]

​@@ZyklonBeast12same as this video would have. He likely doesn't know those things anyway, but he does mention in passing the connection to masonry.

[@altinaykor364]

"Instead they created their own Greek tragedy!" oh, I loved this line so much

[@janscott602]

“Think exactly like me or perish, even if I change my mind”. The modern left, child of the French Revolution.

[@johnschuh8616]

Paris concentrated political power in itself. Which is why the Revoltionaries broke up the traditional provinces in France. Of course, the Bourbons had led the way by not called calling The Estates together for more than 150 years. and by co-opting both Church and Nobility.

[@sassulusmagnus]

... also sounds like the American Trumpists.

[@TJ_Zero-z7c]

​@@sassulusmagnus it's really both parties tbh

[@jordansheffield6101]

Who would want to be a ruled by a church or king. One of the best things about not being in charge all the time is you don’t get all the blame.

[@Tom_Cruise_Missile]

"all hail the petty, stupid tyrants who think we're subhuman!" -the modern right

[@Michael_HS]

'For liberty' reminds me of 'our Democracy, our values"

[@DancaniaX]

"Diversity is our strength" is another one.

[@thethinredline4714]

Exactly "our democracy "

[@ghostsniperable353]

I thought the same.

[@feasogachsionnach1872]

Our beautiful, modern and progressive values.

[@johnmaelstrom3856]

These are the new pagan gods of our age. I've heard there's even a giant statue of the false liberty goddess in New York.

[@Slavianophile]

The French revolution was a model for the 1917 Russian revolution which brought about even more horrible massacres and suffering.

[@cfroi08]

Their day is coming. Freemasonry is dying and the other party (the ones Solzhenytsn wouldn't name) in charge are losing control. I can't wait to see the shock on their face, although I'm curious if their trial will be in the streets or in the courts.

[@mamarussellthepie3995]

And yet marxist, communist teachers college still praise it 😮‍💨

[@I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid]

True dat

[@peterraab3411]

Yes, Yes it was

[@bailee7696]

And that served as a precursor to the Maoist regime which killed more

[@adamhenrywalker]

I saw AOC getting heckled by left-wing protesters and it reminded me of a lesson from the French Revolution: oftentimes in revolutions the early revolutionary leaders are guillotined as well for being insufficiently radical.

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

Fingers crossed.

[@adrianainespena5654]

Well, for that matter, in Ireland, Michael Collins was killed for being too moderate.

[@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845]

Good point, but AOC is hated by the anti-establishment left, not necessarily the radical left.

[@adamhenrywalker]

@@adrianainespena5654 Exactly.

[@porcudracului]

​@@WinstonSmithGPTthat would be nice to see

[@madeleineprendergast3496]

KZbin brought up this video as I was looking for videos to learn about the French Revolution. Was I surprised to hear a discussion of Freemasonry and the low point in the Catholic Faith. Most videos don't discuss religion. I'm a faith-filled Catholic, so I'm very grateful that you included this key aspect. I'm also going to learn more about Hilaire Beloc as a result of the good instruction that you provide here. Thank you.

[@Escalusfr]

As a Frenchman myself, I have to say that this is probably the vest summary of that whole tragedy I've watched

[@RelivingHistory1]

As a fellow Frenchman, it fills me with pleasure to see others like you are also interested in this era of history! I make first-hand account videos about historical moments, many of which are from the French Revolution, Robespierre, Louis XVI ect... (and all of its gruesome executions). If you have the time and are passionate about the subject, I’d love to know if you enjoy the videos I’ve made! Merci, all the best!! I recommend specifically my videos on Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and Napoleon:)

[@emirobinatoru]

​@@RelivingHistory1You deserve much more subscriptions

[@RelivingHistory1]

@@emirobinatoru oh thanks man!! In reality, I am happy with the amount I have, considering I only started a few months ago! I just have to keep being consistent:) "if you build it, they will come". I appreciate it

[@michaelstonebraker8802]

God save France! My brother! Greetings from America!

[@lyc0h]

@@michaelstonebraker8802 Same country where lot's of people tell stuff like we are b*tch who do not know what a war is, with a "surrendering" way of life, that the french resistance didn't exist before 1944. We're not brothers anymore. Lafayette made a huge mistake to convince Louis XVI to send the troops who made you win the Yorktown campain and gain independance from England.

[@LostWoodsman76]

Excellent video. One lesson we can take into today is to remember that the body responsible for the worst of the terror was called “ The Committee of Public Safety.” Most tyranny is done in the name of safety.

[@premabaul7570]

Health and safety... vakzine and lovkdown

[@markhirstwood4190]

Just like how the Freemasons claim to exist for the happiness of mankind, yet they run America from behind the scenes, run the police from behind the scenes and torture and murder, also wage wars, for profit, for themselves.

[@TheHesseJames]

Tyranny is almost always exercised in the name of something: Justice, Liberty, Freedom, God, Tradition, Purity, the people, etc. Always be weary if actions are carried out and justified „in the name of“ something.

[@davidnorman530]

also in the name of equality and fraternity

[@harryfeld1786]

@@TheHesseJames wary

[@emjizone]

What a saga. 1. Have a good idea. 2. Ask for it. 3. Get rejected. 4. Fight for it. 5. Meet resistance. 6. Bring more people. 7. Crush resistance. 8. Euphoria. 9. Want more. 10. Look for limits. 11. Make enemies. 12. Make terror. 13. Monopolize terror. 14. Regulate violence. 15. Export violence. 16. Bring violence back. 17. Reflect. … 18. See what can be done with what is left of the initial good idea.

[@spencerd8504]

The problem is the first..it was not a 'good' idea...it was just a euphoric utopian idea. The good ideas have too much resistance and red-lines that cannot be crossed even if it was for the purpose of materializing the said idea.

[@gachivalantine3792]

​@@spencerd8504 Getting rid of the monarchy and favouring secularism was a good idea.

[@ottomanosman2463]

Edmund Burke nailed this in the end. A violent upheaval dismantled everything in France. Not to say my country Turkey did not have a similar upheaval, but Kemal Ataturk was aware of this destruction and opted to avoid it by retaining many old Ottoman institutions but just renamed it.

[@jpmnky]

I studied the French Revolution in my European History 1600-present course in 2006, HIS108 I think. It was absolutely fascinating and one of the most important events in history. The whole thing was insane. And any history lover needs to do a deep dive into this period.

[@thethinredline4714]

it is in many ways similar to the woke revolution of our times

[@dixonhill1108]

It's sort of ironic in a weird way, how little even history fans like myself know about the whole thing. A lot of our history is written in english and overly focuses on anglophones/protestants. Like the 7 years war was the real american revolution in the sense that it was the war where both england and france lost control over north America. The French lost their torritories to the british, and the british lost true control to the newly empowered American armies.

[@thethinredline4714]

@bastiat ?

[@adamseidel9780]

Every citizen should have knowledge of it. It illustrates perfectly well how a group of otherwise intelligent people dedicated ostensibly to some very honorable goals can lose the plot and become murderous destroyers. It also goes to the danger of criminalizing ideological and political dissent.

[@thethinredline4714]

@@adamseidel9780 The devil had honorable goals

[@bronzinobronzino2748]

Thank you for this summary of a turbulent time in French history. However, at 5.50, you refer to Louis XV as the son of Louis XIV -- in fact, Louis XV was the great-grandson of Le Roi Soleil. Louis XIV's son had died in 1711, followed by the death of Louis XIV's grandson in 1712. (Although this video is filled with a great deal of facts/information, we did not want your viewers to be misinformed about the lineage between Louis XIV and the next French king.)

[@offrainc6455]

This comment deserves to be pinned seen by more people ^^ This is the second inaccuracy in 5 minutes and it indicates a lack of research and/or attention to details, so I'm gonna stop watching - a foreigner's perception of la Terreur sounded interesting, but not if it comes from someone who overlooked something that easy to find out... I wish the Laki eruption in 1883 had been mentioned at this point in the video too, considering it had repercussions on the French weather and crops for years... It indirectly played a huge part in why there were so many hungry people in the country at the time, after all. And no easy way to fix things.

[@brontewcat]

@@offrainc6455I kept watching. It had an interesting take. Interestingly the writer seems to be pro Catholic, and there was an emphasis on the anti-Church aspect of the Revolution. It seems to have a quite conservative, Catholic Church agenda.

[@brontewcat]

@@offrainc6455By the way there is a typo in your comment- it should be the Laki eruption of 1783.

[@gratefulguy4130]

I have to wonder if those deaths were orchestrated. Look at the policies of Louis XV. The fact that the forces at work in the French revolution are still at work today would imply they had been pushing toward those ends for awhile.

[@abdiabdi524]

@@brontewcat more than just conservative in another video he clearly show himself as a white supremacist which is just hilarious coming from a catholic considering that most Catholics are not white.

[@hal0hal0mc]

Glad you used footage from the movie Danton as it really helps temper the fervor that so often accompanies revolution. Revolution is so romanticized (star wars, che guevara etc.) we neglect how easily one becomes the very thing they swore to destroy (or worse(

[@cmfrtblynmb02]

It usually turns a bigger monster than it creates. What really always strikes me is the scale of oppression, jailing of people and executions after the revolutionary gov'ts are created. Ancien regime was a horrible regime, it was oppressive. And yet the number of people it killed in decades was probably was less than what the number was at the height of revolution for just a week. Like they start with a seven people jailed in Bastille and then they just kill hundreds a day at some point.

[@perfectsplit5515]

My coworker had a cynical saying: “To defeat a monster, you must become a monster.”

[@ryucartel351]

​​@@perfectsplit5515 was going to say the same thing. The saying actually goes more like, if you become a monster to defeat a monster, the monster wins. Doing evil in the name of good, is evil.

[@ulaznar]

Star Wars and its simplistic empire bad, rebels good, democracy good, separatist bad is a disaster for the political uneducated

[@user-unos111]

The moral: if you are born unprivileged, you are screwed or become a criminal

[@quartermaster6235]

I still feel very sorry for King Louis XVI, he tried to be as neutral as his position would allow him but alas, the (god-awful) choices of those in the government ended up being put on him instead of those who were to blame

[@BoBoZoBo]

"Revolutions are rarely from the ground up" This comment in the beginning hits the nail on the head about the realities of how/why revolutions happen. Revolutions don't happen because the people at the bottom are fed up and tired. Revolutions happen because key players at the top are dissatisfied and start fighting with each other. The money in organization has to come from somewhere and it's not going to come from the poor and huddled masses.

[@justepourlacheruncom8393]

Jaquerie starts when the people are pissed off. Revolutions start when the people and the elites are pissed off.

[@frankiewally1891]

You`re absolutely right; resolutions are usually instigated by "foreign" agents ,i.e. Zionistic Jews in Russia, and I have a sneaky suspicions that they ,the "bourgeoise" so euphemistically named ,were the "leavening" inspirators of this horrendous French revolution, but this is jut a hunch.

[@neoprofin]

That's simply the law of orders of magnitude. Every movement needs organizers, logistics, messaging. Depending on the size of the change you want to make, you need more organizers, more money, more propaganda. The message may start at the bottom, but the revolution comes from the top. Ironic really, because this story has played out a dozen times over. "We need to remove this monarch/dictator/whatever and replace him with something even worse!"

[@TheBlackfall234]

Freemasons played a big part in the french revolution.

[@--legion]

It's not as simple as that. Oppressive autocratic governments by monarchs who actually believe in the 'divine right of kings' is the essence of revolution. The suffocating poverty of millions is also a good spur to revolt. 'Fed up and tired' doesn't come into it.

[@arkenn3497]

As a French person, I like this video a lot. I've been thinking about it for a few years, but I feel like the French Revolution is a glorified civil war

[@Elijah-Bailey]

Bien sûr que c'est une guerre civile, c'est tout le principe d'une révolution

[@gratefulguy4130]

It's a glorified "holocaust".

[@bosewicht2389]

Historically, Napoleon always said the revolution was a glorified civil war

[@laughingseagull000]

By definition, all revolutions are civil wars.

[@Quincy_Morris]

Technically speaking it was a civil war. Though perhaps folks don’t call it that because the factions can be difficult to define at times.

[@amadeusasimov1364]

In school as a kid in America, I remember how glorified the French Revolution was. It was propped up as a movement of the under-dog, little guy peasants, finally getting rid of the big mean rich blue-bloods. But the more I've learned about the French Revolution over the years; I see now that it was an age where France plunged into "Lord of the Flies" and all the adults were no where to be found.

[@durshurrikun150]

Yes, it was a bourgeoise revolution against the aristocracy and the clercy, it is a quintessential example of class struggle.

[@lilestojkovicii6618]

French revolution is perfect example of Capitalist takeover (productive forces became too powerfull and needed to take action to brake guild rules so that they can form market and produce more and earn more profits)

[@vincentthendean7713]

>little guy peasants, finally getting rid of the big mean rich blue-bloods. Ah, I see the mentality of "Small guy, good guy. Big guy, bad guy" we see today has existed for more than 200 years.

[@P7777-u7r]

@@durshurrikun150 It turns out the bourgeoise are far worse than the aristocracy.

[@durshurrikun150]

@@P7777-u7r I don't know about that, what I know is that the proletariat is far better than both. Besides, at least the bourgeoise manage to modernize society, if it was up to the aristocracy we would still be living and sleeping with the animals, dieing of easily curable diseases and praying to the sky and delusionally hoping for a response.

[@josephanuga2543]

"They dreamed of being like ancient Greece, instead they created their own Greek tragedy " 28:22

[@johnbenedictxviii]

It's also worth mentioning that the French Revolution not only had long lasting consequences in Europe, but also in Latin America as well. For example, many of the Libertadores were inspired by the same ideals that motivated the Jacobins, and the Left-Right spectrum was for a long time very similar to that of Continental Europe (e.g. if you were on the Right, it meant you favored Throne and Altar, whereas if you were on the Left, it meant you supported Republicanism and secularism). Also, there are more specific cases like Mexico, where the Cristero War was more-or-less their version of the Vendee Uprising, and the post-independence regime had shifted back and forth between a monarchy that was fairly supportive of the Church and an anticlerical republic (likewise both Emperors Agustin and Maximilian met a similar fate as Louis XVI), and then Haiti, whose revolution started out as a slave rebellion with legitimate grievances, but then spiraled out of control when Dessalines ordered the massacre of all the French Haitians because they were representatives of the old colonial regime.

[@XxMadermanxX]

"many of the Libertadores were inspired by the same ideals that motivated the Jacobins" and all of them were freemasons too... imagine the surprise... all those revolutions served the British Empire really well... it's like if freemasonry was a british thing made to serve the british crown... or somethin'...

[@altinaykor364]

Not just there. They're the first reason why a horrible thing called politics of North Korea exist today. The country which my ancestors have came from also suffers from the similar fate. Even though I have far more reasons but that alone itself explains a lot of how horrible it was

[@romanslav827]

Great summary! Thanks for bringing up the Vendée war. It's an often overlooked part of the French Revolution, and shows an overlooked aspect that was also a part of most revolutions that followed - how most of the population in rural areas usually remained with the Church and the King, and were threatened to join revolutionary regimes by violent thugs sent by city-based elites.

[@11conormcloughlin]

This is totally relevant to our time.

[@yannickramouillet3742]

Totally false, France wasn't united at all at the time, a patchwork of provinces with their own situations prior to the revolution. In languedoc for example and other Pays d'État as Artois, Provence, life was quite good. Not so much in central and nothern France. "rural areas" doesn't mean anything as their sociology differed widely from province to province.

[@bentos117]

with Trump it is quite different... he wants revolution and he is backed by rural population

[@Acesahn]

As an American living through 2023... I'm seeing a lot of sentiments here you could apply in my country now...

[@Tony.795]

It is the natural evolution of society when the wealth gap gets larger and larger in my opinion. Ordinary people feel duped by the rich when they have nothing to show for their years of hard work while the rich get richer or when they are let go because they are viewed as surplus.

[@Acesahn]

@@Tony.795 *Quietly listens to a man justify why he'd go on an insane power trip harming millions*

[@Bozopack]

Bro this is actually happening right now and its crazy

[@catharperfect7036]

The Spanish civil war is far closer an analogy.

[@slickmechanical]

The difference between the American Revolution and the French was that the Englishmen who revolted in America chose to keep their tradition of English Common Law and it led to stability and fairness. It was a tried and tested method. The French by comparison jettisoned everything and tried to build it back up from zero. It was so destabilizing it tore them apart. They didnt just abolish the calendar, they tried making a 10 day week and dividing time into divisions of 10 to go with the Metric System. It was so disorienting they had to go back to regular time and regular calendar. Never believe someone who says they know how to improve on what their ancestors developped over centuries. They don't know how to improve anything, only how to destroy what already exists.

[@renatohiga]

I have nothing to say but an enormous «Thank you very much» for this excellent video 🎉 Keep up the good work!

[@christopheraliaga-kelly6254]

An old man shouted to Robespierre as he was dragged up to the guillotine: "Oui, Robespierre! Il y a un Dieu! -"Yes, Robespierre! There IS a God!!"

[@yannickramouillet3742]

Stupid because Robespierre strived to end persecutions against christians. Did you read his speeches which are readily available on the Internet as well as countless books on the periods.

[@thomasgodet7294]

Robespierre was everything but an atheist

[@sliglusamelius8578]

@@thomasgodet7294 Robespierre was nothing but a deist with a hatred of Catholicism. That is quite different from being a "believer".

[@thomasgodet7294]

@@sliglusamelius8578 who said he was a christian believer? the comment to which I was responding seemed to mistake robespierre for an atheist which isn't the case

[@sliglusamelius8578]

@@thomasgodet7294 Deism is practically atheism. What creedal formula does it hold? None. Call it what you will, it wasn't "religion", it was atheism with a veneer of woo-woo.

[@LJPugh187]

This quote is in relation to the later revolutions' of 1848, but still applicable and as haunting: "I saw society cut into two: those who possessed nothing, united in a common greed; those who possessed something, united in a common terror" -Alexis de Tocqueville

[@luiso.b3006]

saying people who had nothing were united by greed is the dumbest take I've ever read

[@xangarabana]

Tocqueville has many good quotes... this is not one of them.

[@atikva3804]

Total BS. If there is one thing that marked this horrible event, it was the total lack of union between the protagonists, who ended up killing each other.

[@LJPugh187]

@@atikva3804 my guy, if they were all murdering each other, maybe they *weren’t* the protagonists. lol

[@atikva3804]

@@LJPugh187 In this particular case, yes they were and that's how stupid it all was.

[@midnightchannel111]

You forgot starvation. That was why the "commin man" rebelled, a series of very cold years had destroyed grain crops and peasant were dying in drove, despite the fact that potatoes (another carbohydrate) were pretty titular. The French peasoan literally refused to eat potatoes to the point of starving. The King tried to popularize potatoes by eating them cooked in many different ways but the peasants wouldnhave nine of ot. Only pigs ate potatoes as far as they were concerned. Ironic as the Irish lived off of them...

[@livingincaptivityIII]

Ironic, since Marie Antoinette was corresponding with Queen Charlotte,who had readied apartments for the family, thinking that they were going to be exiled. Ships full of grain could have been sent from England.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

A fanatic is someone who understands nothing until there is nothing left to understand.

[@altinaykor364]

just like revolutionaries

[@PabloVelasco-hr3ko]

sounds like the Jacobins

[@WokeandProud]

​@@altinaykor364No

[@dmkuchins6646]

Nice!!!

[@walnzell9328]

The Soviet Union: We are the world's first bastion of communism! France under Maximilien Robespierre: Hold my wine, citizen.

[@cptpayday2080]

jup and it has and will always end the same... people are stupid and blind :)

[@khorneflakes2175]

Robespierre wasn't even a socialist let alone anything that can be linked to Marxism, outside of the brutality of their ways and the admiration it created in future communists thinkers, i do not see any sort of link between their ideologies. Can you produce actual arguments instead of some joke thrown at the wall ?

[@walnzell9328]

@@khorneflakes2175 It is not wise to question the leadership, comra- I mean citizen.

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

Based, Robespierre did nothing wrong

[@avisdunrandom]

​@@khorneflakes2175back in his day we was more "socialist" than most of his pair. Just that "socialism" was not really a "thing" back in the 18th unless you are saying that during the enlightenment, every one know what "socialism", "patriotism", "fascism", "communism" etc are and act to be in one of this concept? Cause if that the case most people if not everyone before and during the 17th(to the extent to the 18th for some part of the world)are nationalism.

[@duromusabc]

The epic unabridged novel Les Miserables took place 43 years after the French Revolution in the early to mid 1800s in Paris in the June Rebellion of June 1832 during the European Enlightenment movement - with some Catholic themes in it although Victor Hugo never intended it- the Catholic theme of mercy compassion amendment and salvation- (Jean Valjean) - Javert represented the French Revolution itself (despair and self destruction the ultimate consequence) But the epic novel showed how France was no longer a true Catholic nation during the 1800s AD like it once was after the reign of King Charlemagne during the 800s AD to 1300s AD (500 years !)

[@DeborahBrown-k6o]

This is a good, thoughtful video. I will show it to my World History 2 class in a couple of weeks. Thanks!

[@ethang7123]

dont do this

[@Bellasie1]

Finally some common sense about the topic. I'm French and since childhood, I never understood why this horror isn't considered a genocide rather than celebrated as a national holiday. A lot was lost during the French Revolution. If enemies of France had wanted to destroy its heritage and memory, they couldn't have planned a better way. Sadly, most French people are still convinced the revolution freed them, as they are brainwashed by the winners of that revolution still (un)ruling this country. Thank you for being awake and spreading the word that the French Revolution isn't what you are told it was but much worse.

[@michellemobakeng5938]

Voyez comment les élèves sont induits en erreur puis devenus adultes, ils croient toujours aux mensonges de sorte que lorsqu'on leur dit la vérité cela leur semble être un autre mensonge.. Il y a tellement de mensonges. Manipulation, propagande, publicité, histoire falsifiée, etc Quel était l'objectif de la Révolution Française ? Quel était le plan sous-jacent des révolutionnaires ?

[@ad3l547]

Ouais, on a été libérer d'une tyrannie. Exactement ce qu'on est. Et ceux qui disent qu'on vit toujours en "tyrannie" sont le principales personnes qui ne vont jamais voté ou faire quoique ce soit politiquement..

[@whitebeans7292]

Aujourd'hui je crois que il y a des gens qui pensent toujours que la Revolution est la debut de la France Modern, et et tout ce qui avait précédé n’était que l’oppression à rebours de l’Église et du Roi.

[@heyfitzpablum]

The French are their own worst enemies when it comes to that. They vote in these corrupt stooges, then wonder why they keep on sinking in perception-even among other Europeans. France needs a strong, nationalist government to START getting things back on track, but their political system is so corrupt it won't allow it. And yes, I have been to France many, many times-I know what I'm speaking about. There are still many good people in France, but you have to get outside Paris to see them.

[@thalmoragent9344]

In the end, I've always said that the French Revolution was nothing but a hellish anarchy. Sure, some changes were needed, but they killed the French King unjustly, wrongfully, and its honestly a tragedy how so many people view and overglorify the situation as a "fight for freedom".

[@hellucination9905]

It was actually a satanic ritual inaugurating modernity as the age of unbounded desire and mimetic rivalries.

[@patricklints]

I think even today Varennes would be considered a case of HighTreason;

[@JCM-jj1rj]

Exactly

[@eucharistenjoyer]

Oh yes, Rousseau, the guy who put all his 5 children in the orphanage (back when it was almost a death sentence), claiming men are inherently good, sounds legit.

[@altinaykor364]

and an entire nation listened to such a man's logic! that says a lot

[@t.bo.e2487]

@@altinaykor364they would have listened to a literal Goat if it told them what they wanted to here unfortunately Man’s pride and hubris is unmatched

[@suplexpiledriver4428]

But if men were inherently good, wouldn't his children turn out OK under his care? Ever think of that, Jacques?

[@MitsaelT]

@@t.bo.e2487

[@DatterAfDanevang]

If men was inherantly good - he would never have abandoned his OWN children. Ironic he could believe such ideas when he himself was clearly a cynic ahole. ​@@suplexpiledriver4428

[@BlackJack55_55]

The more I learn about history, the more I learn to despise Voltaire at how short sighted he was.

[@rmn3186]

The night b/4 his execution, Robespierre tried to commit suicide, but missed and broke his jaw. He used paper to make a bandage of sorts to keep it in place, so he was in utter agony up until the moment they dropped the blade. I don't remember reading about how he was placed on the board, but it might have been due to his jaw falling off if they had placed him face down.

[@falconeshield]

A fitting end frankly

[@baseballworldwide9439]

Good. Divine justice

[@cernunnos8344]

It's even worse, Robespierre worked with his brother, so the both of them were supposed to be executed and his brother didn't fail his suicide and blew his brains out. Robespierre blew his jaw and got guillotined

[@sloths-df3gf]

@@cernunnos8344 Not quite: Augustin Robespierre jumped out of a window (to escape) but was badly injured. He was guillotined with his brother.

[@warcrimeconnoisseur5238]

Its funny how the people that help such monsters are the first ones on the chopping block but Machiavelli already knew that. The same thing will happen to the people that support such people in our times.

[@MegaMagicdog]

It's the communist way. They're known today as "useful idiots".

[@muttley5958]

The left wing circular firing squad. 🤔 😂

[@liquidsnake6879]

Well they're the ones likely to be privy to conversations and information that may undermine other revolutionaries in the future, so yes they're typically the first to go once they've reached the limit of their usefulness

[@thegeniusofthecrowd354]

Jacinda Ardern and Trudeau spring to mind.

[@bitbucketcynic]

History repeats because human nature never changes. Traitors are never trusted, even when you make them, and the useful idiots always end up against the wall first.

[@sststr]

I recently finished reading the novel "Zanoni", and book 7 is set in the Reign of Terror. While it only covers the couple of days leading up to Robespierre's downfall, Bulwer-Lytton does a superb job depicting the full horror of the Reign of Terror. Indeed, he uses many primary source documents, including various writings and memoirs of Robespierre, to inform both action and dialog, so it is extremely authentic, and utterly terrifying. Terror is indeed a very good descriptor.

[@bokesnmokes]

Illusion by Paula Volsky is an amazing fantasy novel also which tracks the French Revolution

[@bunnymad5049]

ty!

[@garymarcera7452]

As a graduate in western history, I must say that I've learned a lot from this video, especially with regard to the sheer violence and terror the French revolution produced. The revolution is considered a positive move forward as most people have commented on already, both in school and university. The violence is glossed over. We need to tell the WHOLE story as you've done so well. We still have a lot to learn about this chapter of western history.

[@1685Violin]

How would you respond to "hefties" (misspelt intentionally) who call this as "right wing extremist propaganda"?

[@garymarcera7452]

@@1685Violin I wouldn't respond since they're entitled to their opinions and they probably wouldn't listen anyway.

[@Iron-Bridge]

What chills me are the parallels we can see in a number of countries as we progress through history and events now. Things move in cycles.

[@Whatt787]

The sadism and barbarism of the French Revolution was unreal

[@user-btmbangalore]

We all descend to a collective darkness in an unusual time. Man becomes irreverent and against his very self. A bloody dissolution of the self, also our collective self alongside. In periods of relative stability we have an balance, the right and wrong seem to be in a see-saw relation, neither getting the upper hand for long. No see-saw or broken see-saw takes us back to ground zero. None of the institutions matter at all. No allegiances are worthy.

[@thefreeman8791]

So far, the critics of this video are people saying that the fellow giving the presentation is biased and clearly a Catholic… If that sounds familiar then it may be because you have heard of an event called the French Revolution.

[@melaniezette886]

You're wrong, 90% French people are Christians And citizens (citizen is a revolution concept). Religion and politics are completely seperate entities, religion can't have any power in the public sphere.

[@cfroi08]

​@@NitaijonjoedasaIf a law the citizens passed and voted on is seen in anyway relating to religion, then the courts will remove it. But the state can pass any law and legalize anything because secularism isn't held back by religion. Make sense? Oh and replace nobility with faceless corporations and banks. Long live the republics!

[@zarki-games]

@@cfroi08 When you say relating to religion, what do you mean? LIke, as in, placing some government power over what churches may preach? Or would it be more like a law banning abortion?

[@localbod]

​@@cfroi08"...or is seen in any way..."

[@waziammm]

"Why The Inquisition Was Awesome, Actually" "Why The Protestant Reformation Was Worse Than You Thought" "Why The Crusades Were Awesome, Actually" "Napoleon vs The Catholic Church: The Rivalry That Changed Europe" "5 Common Misconceptions About Christianity" "Why The Sexual Revolution Was Worse Than You Thought" "Abortion Rebuttal: DEBUNKING Pro-Choice Propaganda from AsapSCIENCE" The guy has some strong opinions and an agenda, I welcome him to have an opinion but this is clearly propaganda masquerading as a history lesson with no disclosure of such and deserves to be called out.

[@STStillwell]

This was beautifully constructed. The amount of work that must be put into these long form pieces… 😮

[@brianbrosnan4294]

“The French government spent half their tax revenue on debt service”…..sounds a lot like the path the US is on currently 😐

[@midosch7639]

Almost the whole world is in that debt shit honestly

[@Bjornplaylist101]

and the woke revolution in the us seems to be very similar to the beginnings of the French revolution

[@cfroi08]

@@midosch7639 A lot of Europe was in debt as well during that time, Napoleon refused to inherit the debt and pay the banks. The rest is history.

[@tugalord]

And modern day France aswell.

[@fredflinstone6601]

And guess who holds most of the debt. Yup, the usual suspects

[@followyourtelos]

Strange. Back in highschool they taught us that the kings were evil oppressors with no redeemable qualities and the revolutionaries were the heroes spreading freedom and liberty.

[@bosertheropode5443]

Oversimplifications, lies and myths. History classes are sadly full of it

[@MatthewVanston]

Funnily enough, in my history classes, we were taught good things by kings too. So the French Republic has at least the merit to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, even if I dislike the regime.

[@durshurrikun150]

That's the truth.

[@arisaka233]

the french revolution was a fight between the middle class burgioise and the upper class monarchy

[@durshurrikun150]

@@arisaka233 Yes and it was progressive in character as it led to further development of humanity

[@DJChaz2013]

The similarities between the issues today in the United States and the issues that led up to the French revolution are uncanny and scary.

[@heyfitzpablum]

Indeed, when the people elected to represent your interests are more interested in giving massive amounts of taxpayer money to foreign nations rather than to use it for the populace, how far can America be from a collapse? The US Congress have become massively corrupt.

[@qjtvaddict]

GOOD China also had similar issues in the 1900s century of humiliation

[@markreynolds9888]

That is the poster’s intention. He made a point of emphasizing the similarities between America today and France of the revolution. Then by tying together the revolution’s barbarity during The Terror, with it’s rejection of the Catholic Church, he intends on making you believe that if we reject Christianity and elites, society will descend into mayhem and terror. He isn’t even subtle about it.

[@BrottenGuy]

@@markreynolds9888Yeah, exactly. I was going to say something similar. This dude’s constant reference to religion, & how denying it will cause societal downfall & the demise of civilization …. Well…it kinda bothers & irks me, all at the same time. I feel it’s disingenuous, to some degree. Thing is, he’s not even correct, in what he’s presenting. Lol! Church & State should ALWAYS be & REMAIN separated. Once religious beliefs begin dictating ALL “Laws of Man”…? We are in serious trouble. But, I swear…so many of the modern ignorant (in the truest definition, of the word. Not name-calling in some slang slur kind of way) continually PUSH for it. I’m originally from part of the Bible Belt, in Appalachian Coal Mine NE Kentucky. I’ve gotten used to seeing a population that had a VERY high concentration of people fighting for the two to merge once again. So many saying, “Well, if we hadn’t turned from God….” Or “Until our government bends the knee & gives it all to God…”, & saying it with extreme regulatory. They truly believe that the Christian God should be THE. LEADER, of the United States. “Well, this country was BUILT by God! It’s only because of his Will, that we even exist. He blessed us. The Jews are ‘God’s People’, but we are ‘God’s COUNRY’!” I’m dead serious & completely genuine, when I say that this is a _REAL_ thing from _REAL_ PEOPLE. I was raised in it. (I now have Childhood PTSD, at 42-years old; & am an atheist….if that tells ya anything, at all). Anyway…my apologies. I don’t intend on rambling on, for so long. So, my apologies, for such a lengthy Reply Comment. That said, I do appreciate your time & efforts, in reading this; as well as appreciate you, yourself. Hope all is well your way!

[@JackCarsonite]

How is intentional unlimited illegal Aliens the same? It's a simple supply-demand failure through Leftist Boarders regulations. Not a moral issue.

[@HandyMan657]

Sadly, we don't learn from our history. Well done, Pax. Cheers

[@michaelbarry1664]

Each time I learn more about the French Revolution and its consequences, my resolve to pray and act to reverse the effects of this disastrous time period is strengthened. Truly a horrific thing for Western society.

[@JMObyx]

What do you believe were the greatest negative consequences of the French Revolution?

[@AlexiusRedwood]

Democracy

[@chico9805]

The French Revolution laid the foundation for pretty much all of the issues Western society stuggles with today.

[@ForageGardener]

​@Alessio the American revolution had already occurred decades earlier 😂

[@warcrimeconnoisseur5238]

@@ForageGardener Yeah but the Americans are neither European nor enlightend, they are a bunch of plebs posing as a government

[@corsomagenta]

By not failing to highlight the role of freemasonry in the Revolution you have really distinguished yourself from the herd of historians who only relate the litany of useless establishment bromides about its causes. Thank you and well done!!

[@ascend3654]

more and more younger and unbiased historians are having their say

[@hermes3386]

When I was a youngster, it was a sin to draw a link between Masonry and the French Revolution, it was an unforgivable act of "conspiracism" as one would say these days. And then, when I turned 20 years old, I happened to visit the french Masonry museum (Grand Orient, rue Cadet, Paris) and guess what: there was in it a full wall dedicated to the "Masonry as the French Revolution main engine" with a lot of portraits, documents facsimiles and so on. Alas it was way before the existence of tiny digital cameras, and as photography was forbidden in the museum, I could not take a single picture of this willful disclosure. Too bad. Fast forward: nowadays, this is "conspiracism" again to state that Masonry was behind the French Revolution, despite the clues that are just everywhere and this museum wall that confesses just everything... Oh, wait a minute ! The wall is not any longer, as usually, Masonry plays the card of "erased memory".

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

Freemasonry is a truly evil organization but Ignatius Loyola's Jesuits were just as evil and just as secretive. Both of these evil organizations played a part in the massacre.

[@bunnymad5049]

@@marcosfelipedeborbaengster9722 Oh, yes, he has his biases. However, everyone does. I think it'll be helpful in the pile of info I'll gather - especially from my son who has just announced he's been hard core studying it all by himself for ages. My kids know more than me on just about everything! lol. Which is a good thing. Do you have any suggestions for good docs? I'm finding it difficult to read these days due to an illness. Docs are easier.

[@dvdortiz9031]

You have the only centered comment here!!!

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

“Now, the enlightenment did not invent science and reason” THANK. YOU. Seriously, excellent video on the topic, presented very well!

[@intiorozco5063]

I don't think anyone has ever argued that. Quite the strawman.

[@tomigun5180]

@@intiorozco5063 Of course they have argued that, hence the "dark age" term for the medieval by the "enlightenment".

[@felleginodavido61]

@@tomigun5180 that's not true, there are hundreds of years between the dark ages and the enlightenment.

[@JoelReid]

considering at the time of the revolution, France was struggling to keep up with British scientific and engineering advancements, then France was definitely not the invention of such things, and much of the British developments came from theological and religious minds.

[@elwood6643]

​@@dodelbeere Another day, another dumbass blaming the consequences of the fall of the roman Empire on Christianity.

[@puceaardvark]

“For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.” -Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

[@dantobarbarian4842]

The nobles of France were in fact NOT entrepreneurial at all. That's actually the main difference between the UK and France. Work was seen as something bad and in fact nobles risked losing their status if they tried to open a factory or what not. You can take a look at Asha Logos video on the French revolution here too btw.

[@notrelogisbreton5574]

A huge part of french scientists of that era were nobles. Reaumur is the perfect example. You could say they were entrepreneurs, not businessmen

[@wantedwario2621]

This video is pretty bad honestly, and comes from a fairly buased point of view

[@odenetheus]

@@wantedwario2621 Yeah, I was like... this is such a biased view that the history it conveys through that lens is... not accurate.

[@okami425]

How so exactly? What parts were drastically misrepresented? Who cares about bias? Is someone who's sympathetic for the revolutionaries and their cause gonna be unbiased in their retelling of the events?

[@bryanf9957]

@@okami425 That war that he casually mentions in 1792 as a disaster for France against the big strong monarchies...was the War of the First Coalition where France straight up embarrassed all those monarchies in the field.

[@nanky432]

The problem was that liberty as defined by the French intellectuals was given by the state and its powers to preserve it, which means it could also take it away at any time. The American revolution defined liberty more accurately as the rights of man to not be molester by government interference and that liberty was defined by the individual and not government, meaning that government had no right to take it away.

[@umaikakudo]

This is the foundation crux. By what standard and by what authority? Aristotelian man is the measure of all things and the State is the highest organizing principle of all reality vs Pre-political inalienable rights endowed by the Creator who's law word to which everyone from the lowest labor to the supreme magistrate is bound to obey and will be held to account.

[@vester7457]

The American Constitution says our rights are inalienable BECAUSE THEY COME FROM GOD

[@localbod]

"..not to be molested.."

[@allabouttruth4547]

You can't hate the French Revolution and love the American Revolution, they both sought the same end but by different means. The same Masons were behind both, seeking to destroy Catholic principles with their masonic ones. The American Revolution was simply the trial run.

[@edprestoza4099]

ABSOLUTELY AND MOST DEFINITELY AGREED 1000%!!!!!!!!!!

[@AlbornozVEVO]

a quick side-note: to better understand what is meant with positive and negative freedom, think positive freedom as focusing on "freedom to" and negative freedom as "freedom from"

[@LiamHalla-pe5nt]

Absolute freedom is doing whatever they want with no consequence

[@midosch7639]

​@@LiamHalla-pe5ntBut that doesn't exist. Every action has consequences. Always. Even if you are the only human on earth.

[@altinaykor364]

mmmmmmmm isn't freedom also means that being free to express your opinion? to be free to have any religion you want? French Revolution is the opposite of such a thing and ironic how they had the nerve to criticize the church for doing the exact same thing

[@ulysseter9967]

as a French, thank you for speaking out the truth. In France, especially in public schools, we learn nothing about this except that the evolution was for a good cause and that the Church was bad.

[@Sam0Mahn]

Over the past two years, I have seen Pax's channel grow and his videos get better. I am glad to say that this is the best video Pax has made yet.

[@mr.e2962]

Edmund Burke's "reflection on the revolution in France" is an excellent criticism of the revolution in France. Highly recommend it.

[@KingOfInsanity777]

Good job Pax. Every since I've started looking into traditional Christianity, I've always wanted a deep insight on the French Revolution and its many degenerate consequences. May God continue to bless your insightful videos! ✝️

[@LARA-sg4bt]

God is fake and all who worship the devil in disguise need serious help

[@AR15andGOD]

Traditional Christianity will not be found in the annals of catholicism, but in the pages of scripture. God even gives a brilliant refutation of all catholicism within His verses.

[@Bozopack]

Crazy that this is happening in America as we speak they are so blind💀

[@AmusedCoffee-ym3gb]

Obsessed with sex ✅️ Hates and blames Christians ✅️

[@jameshailerthepostmaster4389]

​@@AmusedCoffee-ym3gb name-calling those who disagree "Tolerant" and "peaceful"

[@carlborneke8641]

This subject was not sugarcoated when I was in school. While the gory details where left out we still learned how horrific it was for everyone involved and there were no pure good or bad.

[@markhirstwood4190]

If a mob kills you, your wife and kids... that's pure bad.

[@aandyherr817]

@@markhirstwood4190 So, maybe stop eating all the cake, forcing the poor to eat literal cow shit, and then being surprised when the people eating cow shit (90% of the popultation) rises up and murders 10% of the wealthy, unarmed, dull, stupid and ignorant wealthy who made others eat literal cow shit. Amazing how being a literal fascist, hateful, short-sighted idiot comes back to bite them in the ass.

[@ronantheronin3521]

​@@markhirstwood4190 I agree monarchy is bad, because they left the people to starve and die.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

​@@markhirstwood4190 if the king has you killed for refusing to kneel, that's worse

[@alergames147]

@@GalacticNovaOverlord theyre just as bad

[@zeekdawg]

Do people really think France was a “poor backwater under the king” country?

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

Yes unfortunately, although the people who think this tend to think all monarchies were poor and backwards, I think it's more an anti-monarchy bias than a specifically anti-ancient regime

[@LiamHalla-pe5nt]

90% of french were in poverty

[@highbahamut6188]

@@matthiuskoenig3378 in Brazil the monarchy was the best goverment we ever had and the republic was literally the worst thing that ever happened to our country, monarchism is growing here for a reason

[@theleninator5739]

yes-it-was

[@davidchicoine9209]

Well, the American MSM keeps putting out the trope that Russia is a poor backwater under a dictator. Ignorance reigns supreme sometimes.

[@lechasseurdedahut]

I am Vendean. My ancestor died for their faith and because they don't want fight for the republic. Thank to say the truth about the story of my contry, my family and my chruch.

[@altinaykor364]

bless you and your ancestor! none of you deserved to get dragged into such madness and lunacy

[@satiricalhaz-homeofbanter4371]

Is it pronounced vonday or vendee as he pronounced it in the video? I was always under the impression it was vonday, that's what my family and me called it when we went on holiday there but we could just be your typical ignorant brits

[@Generalfund]

The revolution was started by the nobility which sought to reform the government to take power from the monarchy. The nobles attempted to use the Third Estate and instead found themselves consumed by them.

[@gregmattox6195]

History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes (almost perfectly).

[@mpalfadel2008]

England under Oliver Cromwell was a police state This occurred nearly two centuries prior to the French Revolution

[@recoilAbs]

Not to mention Ivan the Terrible

[@afrules9097]

Yes Mr. Catholic

[@lowersaxon]

No, roughly 140 years.

[@mpalfadel2008]

@@lowersaxon I admit I was guessing at the time Thanks LowerSaxon for the accurate date 👍🇬🇧

[@chrissasin6676]

Good job,but little unclear in some cases.Carmelites were executed on July 17 in 1794 and 11 days later Robespierre lost his head. I think it’s important

[@Colonel_Blimp]

Are you suggesting that the murder of the Carmelites was the last straw for many people? I hadn’t thought of that.

[@thomasgodet7294]

@@Colonel_Blimp robespierre wasn't overthrown by people who could have been moved by the death of the carmelites he was overthrown by people who had practiced dechristianisation all over the country and who feared that Robespierre would crack down on them (people such as Tallien to the right or Collot d'Herbois to the left)

[@gregorypilau3530]

This gave me chills, the way France seem to portray the revolution seems like showing one side only when in actual reality some of its episodes are gruesome tales of horror and terror.

[@bojcio]

its usually like this, wars and revolutions are rarely black and white. we bend historic events in such a light to justify contemporary views.

[@Silver_is_disappointed_in_you]

The French revolution is one of the things I despise the most in the history of my country ! 💀

[@MrsYasha1984]

It's still baffling to me that the storm on the bastille is the national day of France, and the Marseillaise is it's anthem...

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

The masons (allies of the Jews) were behind this.

[@tacoblude8208]

@@MrsYasha1984 because you monarchists lost

[@zox3497]

Fellow orthodox, God bless

[@itnotmeitu3896]

@@MrsYasha1984 the revolutionaries won, changed the history and how people viewed it and moved on. Even napoleon leveraged it

[@bdleo300]

"The problem with guillotining all enemies of the people, is that you eventually run out of people." -Robespierre (probably not)

[@thomasgodet7294]

probably not indeed as he opposed the death penalty and in the spring of 1794 actually reduced the numbers of executions in France, and as he opposed many of the politicians responsible for the violence throughout the country, politicians which deposed him on the 9th of Thermidor and then which fabricated the myth that Robespierre was almost solely responsible, with the Sans-Culotte (despite Robespierre and the Sans-Culotte having been in conflict since late 1793), for the violence that had gone on since 1792 (people such as Tallien)

[@FrenchLegitimist]

As a French, it often upset me when I see foreigners saying the French Revolution was good, that it was the revolt of the people, by the people, for the people; So thank you for this needed video. If the world start to realize that the French Revolution was the seizure of power by a liberal and atheist bourgeoisie, maybe French people will finally wake up. \> If France's true history is interesting to you, I suggest you investigate the character of Maréchal Pétain. For now, some quotes on the Revolution : « July 14, storming of the Bastille. I witnessed, as a spectator, this assault on a few invalids and a timid governor: if the gates had been kept closed, the people would never have entered the fortress. I saw two or three cannon shots fired, not by the invalids, but by French guards, already mounted on the towers. De Launay, torn from his hiding place, after having suffered a thousand outrages, was knocked down on the steps of the Hôtel de Ville; the provost of the merchants, Flesselles, has his head broken by a pistol shot; it was this spectacle that heartless blissful souls found so beautiful. In the midst of these murders, they indulged in orgies, as in the troubles of Rome under Otho and Vitellius. The victors of the Bastille were driven around in cabs, happy drunkards, declared conquerors at the cabaret; prostitutes and sans-culottes began to reign, and escorted them. The passers-by uncovered themselves with the respect of fear, before these heroes, some of whom died of fatigue in the midst of their triumph. The keys of the Bastille multiplied; they were sent to all the simpletons of importance in the four parts of the world. How many times have I missed my fortune! If I, a spectator, had registered on the register of winners, I would have a pension today. » François René de CHATEAUBRIAND, "Mémoire d'Outre-tombe", 1848. Concerning the fall of the jacobin party : « The history of the ninth of Thermidor is not long: a few scoundrels killed a few scoundrels. », Joseph de MAISTRE (1753-1821), "Considérations sur la France" (1796)

[@hugogeneve9918]

Le maréchal Pétain, criminel parmi les criminels This dude single-handedly caused France more harm than the whole Jacobins’ Club in ten years of political turmoil. Maneuvering to receive all the political competence from the Parliament only to turn it against France’s own interest and most of all the working class and minorities

[@FrenchLegitimist]

@@hugogeneve9918 Tell me you know nothing of Philippe Pétain without telling me you know nothing of Philippe Pétain.

[@hugogeneve9918]

Basic droitard be like : No Pétain didn’t capitalise on his reputation as saviour of Verdun to pursue his political agenda and cowardly surrender France, the working class’s interests and the Jews to the Nazi, destroying the heritage of decades of class struggles to protect his ideal of a traditional France. I’m not saying he was inherently evil, but he is responsible for the policies of his government and they were disastrous

[@FrenchLegitimist]

@@hugogeneve9918 Donc ta thèse est : "Philippe Pétain, qui a sacrifié sa vie pour la France a, soudainement, au crépuscule de sa vie, abandonné tout ce pour quoi il s'est toujours battu, pour s'allier aux Allemands et ruiner la France" ? Je sais que c'est la thèse officielle de la propagande nationale, mais réalises-tu à quel point elle est illogique ? Si tu t'intéresses à la période, tu réaliseras que le mensonge qui entoure le personnage est aussi épais (voir plus) que celui qui maquille la "Révolution française" en révolte légitime et éclairée du petit peuple opprimé, par le peuple, pour le peuple. L'éducation (anti)nationale ou un pseudo-historien francophobe comme Paxton ne sont pas des sources fiables, surtout lorsqu'ils jugent les actions de Vichy en omettant complètement le fait que l'Allemagne avait gagné la guerre et imposait sa volonté à une France vaincue. Il serait bien plus avisé d'aller voir du côté d'un historien comme Alain Michel, israélien qui, au départ, étudiait le sujet dans le but de démontrer que Vichy était le mal absolu. Son honnêteté l'a forcé à reconnaître que ce n'est pas le cas (dans Vichy et la Shoah). Autrement, dans son livre La France Divisée contre elle-même, Adrien Abauzit consacre tout une partie aux mensonges qui entourent le Maréchal Pétain. Enfin, tu peux retrouver le procès de Pétain en ligne ; tu y découvriras des témoignages comme celui de François-Xavier de Bourbon-Parme, chef d'un réseau de résistance qui fut déporté pour cela, qui intervient en faveur de Pétain, affirmant que le Maréchal était parfaitement au courant de ses activités anti-allemandes, et que plusieurs fois, il a pu faire appel à lui pour faire libérer des résistants condamnés à mort.

[@redrustyhill2]

The revolution was a necessary evil

[@davep7849]

Great concise summary. Visuals were excellent as well. As an engineer, i would've loved a mention of the metric system's roots during this time as well.

[@Т1000-м1и]

Finally we went beyond the "what actually matters" bullet points on youtube. Now instead of hearing fun incidents and guessing what life was like, you can actually see the life

[@Mikel57129]

I'd say one of the best lessons to take from the revolution is that too much change all at once is dangerous. Change over time is safer but can hurt the citizenry for that length of time. Balancing progress is key as good ideas require forging and reforging until they are stable enough to stand on their own merit. Also top down change is tyrannical while bottom up can be chaotic. Evolution of society is better than revolution of society

[@patricklints]

In principle, no one would disagree. Yet, a situation ( any situation ) that is totally blocked takes a huge blow to unblock, it's inevitable. A very bad phase that cannot be skipped, one can wait forever for reasonable evolution. Only when things settle down after the explosion, things can be rearranged with reason. Which is what happened in the aftermath of the revolution. Changing things takes a lot of damage, and time to reflect on it.

[@Tony.795]

@@patricklints People don't wait for that when they get hungry.

[@blank557]

Excellent detailed summary of the French revolution. However, you glossed over the alleged European golden age that followed after Napoleon. (To his credit, Napoleon's code held France together through all it's turbulent regime changes) The revolution was never completely extinguished. Several smaller revolts kept the surviving radicals alive and bred new ones, leading to the disastrous Paris Commune following the Franco-Prussian war. Still, a superb presentation from which I learned much. Well done.

[@JuliaIKE-c2x]

“While they were absolute monarchs on paper, they really weren’t in practice.” Fax.