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Revolutions - The French Revolution
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- The population of pre-Revolutionary France was divided into Three Estates: the Church, the Nobility and Everyone Else.
- The Ancien Regime was a mess in desperate need of reform.
- As power passed from Louis XV to Louis XVI, royal ministers attempted to implement reforms, but were thewarted at every turn.
- Just as the financial situation was about to explode the monarchy was hit by a public relations nightmare.
- King Louis called the Assembly of Notables in early 1787 to approve a major fincancial reform package. But intead of rubber stamping the initiatives, the Notables scrutinized every detail.
- The king's attempt to break the Parments in the summer of 1788 was was met by widespread resistence.
- The debate over the coming Estates General awakened the political consciousness of the Third Estate. Also the weather was rotten.
- On Day 2 of the Estates General, the Third Estate went on strike. Sponsor link: Lynda.com/revolutions
- On July 14, 1789 a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille.
- After a wave of chaos spread across France, the National Assembly abolished feudalism on the night of Aug. 4, 1789.
- After the Night of August 4th, the National Assembly divided into new political factions.
- In October 1789 some angry houswives changed the course of the French Revolution. Sponsor Link: lynda.com/revolutions
- After the move to Paris, radical delegates from the National Assembly formed a new political club to help push their agenda.
- In the leadup to the great Fête de la Fédération, the Marquis de Lafayette and a group of liberal nobles began to direct the course of the Revolution.
- After the Feast of the Federation, Revolutionary France was outwardly calm, but internally divided.
- In June 1791 the royal family tried to escape from Paris, but they were busted while passing through Verennes. Sponsor link: lynda.com/revolutions
- Would really like to get my hands on the salacious limericks the good Emperor composed while whacked on spice.
- After the Flight to Varennes, populist agistators in Paris called for an end to the monarchy, leading to a bloody confrontation in July 1791.Coming Dec 14: revolutionspodcastfundraiser.com
- As the National Assembly drew to a close, the Triumvirate rose to power.http://revolutionspodcastfundraiser.com
- The new Legislative Assembly convened in October 1791 and quickly put France on the path to war. Fundraiser Store: http://revolutionspodcastfundraiser.com
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- In April 1792 France declared war on Austria.Store: revolutionspodcastfundraiser.com
- On Aug 10, 1792 the radical sections of Paris overthrew the monarchy.Store: revolutionspodcastfundraiser.comSponsor: lynda.com/revolutions
- With the Allied armies approaching Paris, the sans-culottes broke into all the prisoners and slaughtered the inmates.
- The National Convention voted unanimously to abolish the monarchy on Sept 21, 1792. Then they proceeded to go at each others throats. Sponsor: lynda.com/revolutions
- King Louis XVI was put on trial by the National Convention and executed Jan 21, 1793.
- After the Battle of Valmy the French armies advanced on all fronts.
- In the spring of 1793 revolts against Paris started erupting all over France.Sponsor: lynda.com/revolutions
- On May 31-June 2, 1793 Paris once again rose in armed insurrection against the national government.
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- In the summer of 1793 the Revolutionaries in Paris were besieged from all sides.
- In the summer of 1793 a re-organized Committee of Public Safety began to consolidate power.
- In the fall of 1793, the French Republic started to gain traction against its enemies. Setting up the stage for the Reign of Terror.sponsor: lynda.com/revolutions
- In October 1793 the Reign of Terror got started with the executions of Marie Antoinette and the Girondins.
- In Oct 1793 the French Revolution took a stab at reforming time itself.
- Marie Antoinette thought he was behind EVERYTHINGsponsor link: lynda.com/revolutions
- Do not get into a popularity contest with George Washington.spnsor link: lynda.com/revolutions
- At the end of 1793, the Committee of Public Safety completed it's consolidation of power.
- In the spring of 1794. the Revolution devoured a few of her most beloved children.sponsor link: lynda.com/revolutions
- If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent.
- The events of 9 Thermidor II brought Act I of the French Revolution to a gruesome end.
- After the events of 9 Thermidor, the Revolution began to swing back to the right.
- The terrible winter of 1794-95 helped France push back all her enemies. Also...Poland!
- That's the slogan that rallied the last remnents of the sans culottes to action...right before they got crushed by the Thermidorean Convention.
- When the Thermidorean Convention introduced the Constitution of Year III, the political Right went a little nuts.
- The adventures of everyone's favorite proto-communist. k
- Control the central position. Move on the rear. Live off the land.Sponsor Link: http://lynda.com/revolutions
- Bonaparte almost gets beat! But then he doesn't. Also don't invade Ireland in December.sponsor link: http://lynda.com/revolutions.
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