Revolutions

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3.0- Revolutions Podcast Update
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3.1- The Three Estates
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The population of pre-Revolutionary France was divided into Three Estates: the Church, the Nobility and Everyone Else.
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3.2- The Broken Regime
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The Ancien Regime was a mess in desperate need of reform.
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3.3- Resistance to Reform
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As power passed from Louis XV to Louis XVI, royal ministers attempted to implement reforms, but were thewarted at every turn.
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3.4- Necker and the Necklace
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Just as the financial situation was about to explode the monarchy was hit by a public relations nightmare.
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3.5- The Assembly of Notables
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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.
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3.6- The Stately Quadrille
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Round and round and round it goes...
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3.7- The Séance Royale
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The Séance Royale
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3.8- The Day of the Tiles
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The king's attempt to break the Parments in the summer of 1788 was was met by widespread resistence.
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3.9- What is the Third Estate?
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The debate over the coming Estates General awakened the political consciousness of the Third Estate. Also the weather was rotten.
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3.10- The Tennis Court Oath
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On Day 2 of the Estates General, the Third Estate went on strike. Sponsor link: Lynda.com/revolutions
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Random Insert- Tour Announcement
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3.11- The Fall of the Bastille
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On July 14, 1789 a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille.
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3.12- The Great Fear
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After a wave of chaos spread across France, the National Assembly abolished feudalism on the night of Aug. 4, 1789.
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3.13- The Rights of Man
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After the Night of August 4th, the National Assembly divided into new political factions.
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3.13a- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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3.14- The Women's March on Versailles
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In October 1789 some angry houswives changed the course of the French Revolution.
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3.15- The Rise of the Jacobins
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After the move to Paris, radical delegates from the National Assembly formed a new political club to help push their agenda.
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3.16- The Society of 1789
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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.
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3.17- A Temporary Summit
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After the Feast of the Federation, Revolutionary France was outwardly calm, but internally divided.
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3.18- The Flight to Varennes
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In June 1791 the royal family tried to escape from Paris, but they were busted while passing through Verennes.
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The Flight of Emperor Palpatine
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Would really like to get my hands on the salacious limericks the good Emperor composed while whacked on spice.
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3.19- The Massacre of the Champ de Mars
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After the Flight to Varennes, populist agistators in Paris called for an end to the monarchy, leading to a bloody confrontation in July 1791.
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3.20- The Constitution of 1791
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As the National Assembly drew to a close, the Triumvirate rose to power.
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3.21- The Legislative Assembly
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The new Legislative Assembly convened in October 1791 and quickly put France on the path to war.
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3.21a- Supplemental- Talleyrand
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Talleyrand!
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3.22- War
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In April 1792 France declared war on Austria.
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3.23- The Insurrection of August 10th
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On Aug 10, 1792 the radical sections of Paris overthrew the monarchy.
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3.24- The September Massacres
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With the Allied armies approaching Paris, the sans-culottes broke into all the prisoners and slaughtered the inmates.
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3.25- The National Convention
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The National Convention voted unanimously to abolish the monarchy on Sept 21, 1792. Then they proceeded to go at each others throats.
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3.26- The Trial of Louis XVI
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King Louis XVI was put on trial by the National Convention and executed Jan 21, 1793.
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3.27- Advance and Retreat
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After the Battle of Valmy the French armies advanced on all fronts.
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3.28- Provincial Revolt
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In the spring of 1793 revolts against Paris started erupting all over France.
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3.29- The Purge of the Girondins
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On May 31-June 2, 1793 Paris once again rose in armed insurrection against the national government.
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3.30- The 250th Episode
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Question Time!
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3.31- The Man of Blood Part Deux
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In the summer of 1793 the Revolutionaries in Paris were besieged from all sides.
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3.32- The Committee of Public Safety
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In the summer of 1793 a re-organized Committee of Public Safety began to consolidate power.
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3.33- The Geography of Terror
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In the fall of 1793, the French Republic started to gain traction against its enemies. Setting up the stage for the Reign of Terror.
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3.34- Saturn's Children
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In October 1793 the Reign of Terror got started with the executions of Marie Antoinette and the Girondins.
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3.34a- The Republican Calender
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In Oct 1793 the French Revolution took a stab at reforming time itself.
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3.34b- Phillippe Egalite
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Marie Antoinette thought he was behind EVERYTHING.
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3.34c- Citizen Genet
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Do not get into a popularity contest with George Washington.
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3.35- The Law of 14 Frimaire
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At the end of 1793, the Committee of Public Safety completed it's consolidation of power.
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3.36- The Liquidation Process
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In the spring of 1794. the Revolution devoured a few of her most beloved children.
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3.37- The Republic of Virtue
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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.
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3.38- Thermidor
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The events of 9 Thermidor II brought Act I of the French Revolution to a gruesome end.
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3.39- The Death of the Jacobins
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After the events of 9 Thermidor, the Revolution began to swing back to the right.
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3.40- The Frozen Rivers
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The terrible winter of 1794-95 helped France push back all her enemies. Also...Poland!
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3.41- Bread and Constitution of 1793
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That's the slogan that rallied the last remnents of the sans culottes to action...right before they got crushed by the Thermidorean Convention.
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3.42- The Whiff of Grapeshot
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When the Thermidorean Convention introduced the Constitution of Year III, the political Right went a little nuts.
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3.43- The Conspiracy of Equals
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The adventures of everyone's favorite proto-communist.
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3.44- The War Feeds Itself
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Control the central position. Move on the rear. Live off the land.
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3.45- The Fall of Mantua
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Bonaparte almost gets beat! But then he doesn't. Also don't invade Ireland in December.
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3.46- The Coup of Fructidor
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After taking a drubbing in the elections Year V, the Directory decided to just annul the results.
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3.47- The Directorial Terror
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After Fructidor the Directory cracked down on the conservatives. They also created more sister republicans to systematically loot.
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3.48- The Coup of Floreal
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The Directory manipulated the elections of Year VI to block left-wing candidates. Meanwhile Talleyrand provoked the Americans into war and Bonaparte sailed for Egypt.
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3.49- The Egyptian Expedition
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In July 1798 Bonaparte and his healthy, hopeful army arrived in Egypt. In August 1799 Bonaparte ditched his now demoralized, plague-ridden army and sailed for home.
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3.50- The Second Coalition
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While Bonaparte was off trying to conquer Egypt, the rest of Europe mobilized against France.
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3.51- The Coup of Prairial
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When the War of the Second Coalition got off to a terrible start for the French, the Triumvirate that had been running the Directory since 1797 was overthrown.
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3.52- There Is Your Man
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And his name is Napoleon Bonaparte.
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3.53- The Consulate
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After coming to power in 1799, First Consul Bonaparte achieved many of the Revolution's dreams and healed many of its open wounds. So he declared himself Emperor in 1804.
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3.54- The Empire
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Napoleon conquered Europe. Then he got beat and the Bourbons came back.
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Special Announcement: Mike Duncan Inks a Book Deal
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3.55- The Retrospective
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One last look back at the pile of severed heads.