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Really really entertaining so well done thank you

Incredibly Good work laying all this out so Confidently and Graciously Another RUclipsr I’d compare You to is Sven van der Plank Though His five Hour videos only cover fictional Battletech Lore The resemblance in commitment is quite immense

Incredible work If I hadn’t already received almost as much information in the subject This would’ve done most of the work by Itself Great job Thank You

I must say as a Dane i cannot help but notice the difference between Danish absolutism and French absolutism. The Danish variant was characterized by a complete centralization of power at the capital (Copenhagen) and a complete political destruction of the old nobility and their privilegies. No "parlements" or likewise existed and the old nobility had no special right to the military. When the revolution was starting, massive land reforms (landboreformerne 1784-1830) was taking place in Denmark much to the dismay of the nobility - but they couldnt do anything about it, because the absolutism was so powerful. But in France when Louis tried to solve the financial crisis by demanding taxes of the nobility he did not have the power to do so. France at that time was a collection of old feudal duchies and power structures - while Denmark resembled a modern homogenious state more. So when the government tried to reform the nation completely from Paris, it not only offended the privilegies of aristocrats and likewas, but also threatened the sovereignty of the regional structures (parlements, Pay de d'Etat and so on). It goes to show that France resembled the HRE in its regional og judicial complexity a lot more than one might imagine. This might explain the weakness and irrationality of the French absolutism.

De belangrijkste reden waarom de Franse Revolutie als één van de bloedigste gebeurtenissen uit de recente Europese geschiedenis wordt afgeschilderd is om onder de bevolking een angst voor de wil van het volk te scheppen (wat op zichzelf al tegenstrijdig is). En dat de leidende klasse verantwoordelijk is voor veel ergere afslachtingen onder het volk over wie zij zich aanmatigen te moeten heersen (zoals na de commune van Parijs), wordt verzwegen. Dit is bewust beleid, de leidende klasse vreest de kracht van een verenigd volk en gebruikt de tactiek van verdeel en heers, dit verklaard ook de haast waarmee landen binnen Europa van hun nationale identiteit ontdaan worden zodat deze landen geen unieke eigen volksidentiteit meer zullen hebben en aldus gemakkelijker overheerst kunnen worden.

I can't even imagine life for the troops after Acre. So many dead and wounded for trying to hopelessly take a settlement that your general would eventually deem as not being worth the trouble. Then to have him just ditch you after proclaiming how well you had done? I'm amazed Kleber was able to hold the Army of the Orient together after such a depressing failure, let alone keep control of Egypt for so long.

It's very shrewd of Napoleon to be honest in reports but lie in his letters to Josephine. Banking that people would believe them through the channels of gossip is very clever and would be unlikely to come back on him.

Thank You for being the best French History lecturer known to Man *(Atleast on RUclips)* Beautiful presentation Wonderful Oration

Ridley Scott should've watched this before he made that shit show. Thanks

spectacular series thank you for your work

Incredible series

Love your work!

A lot of totally innocent people went to the guillotine 😢😢that sad it was like france went mad with the reign of teror (order of the day)

Nationalist convention was the center of the first french Republic

I think some in the Directory hoped he would lose, as he was seen as a potential Caesar who might replace them, especially after the fame of the Egyptian campaign. Josephine helped his political rise because she introduced him to Paul Barras, the leading figure on the Directory. Barras was Josephine's ex. She was also part of the nobility, and her first husband had supported the revolution but was executed during the terror.

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You're being excessively generous to Napoleon. Whenever the French encountered guerilla resistance he ordered his generals to burn villages and murder hostages, kidnapped the Duc d'Enghien, executed the German writer Palm for preaching German nationalism, allowed his men to kill prisoners with poison-gas in Haiti, and so on.

As bad as the Montagnards were on the Terror, they created a very effective land army. But the Revolutionaries ruined the navy by purging it of the royalist and aristocratic officers.

The thing Brienne was trying to do creating plenary courts was sortof already in place at the end of Louis XV's reign, courtesy of the Chancellor Maupeou in 1771. Louis XVI threw it away early in his reign, and couldnt put the genie back in the bottle.

Marie Antoinette was much more involved in politics than the previous queen Maria Leszynska. Louis XV had warned her not to interfere, and it led to a cooling between until they reconciled. Very different with Louis XVI. He took her misguided advice to sack reforming ministers, based on what her friends at court were saying e.g. criticising Necker as a Swiss Protestant.

Necker was a modern Nicolas Fouquet, lending his own money to the government while also being Finance Minister. That had been one of the charges against Fouquet in his trial, but it seems to have been legal by Neckers time.

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The Napoleon movie completely shows his marriage inaccurately

I can understand now why the sans-cullottes suspected there was a counter-revolution by stealth going on. I think this is wrong. The Feuillants wanted something like the British constitutional parliamentary monarchy.

Louis was really skating on thin ice trying to block things despite not only being forgiven for trying to flee (at least by the Society of 1789), but being offered some of his powers back if he approved the constitution. Parallels with Charles I rejecting the armies "Heads of the Proposals" after losing the English Civil War.

This was a major turning point. Louis would never be trusted by most revolutionaries again. Also the escape was bungled. The kings brother the Comte de Provence dressed like a revolutionary and succeeded in escaping. Louis XVI and his family stuck out like a sore thumb with all their servants and the likeness of the king on the coins. And they refused Axel von Fersen's advice to split up. Louis might not have trusted him because of rumours of an affair with Marie Antoinette.

All day of Andulsia Spain and political and social

There was also a Cult of Reason which was one of Heberts Dechristianisation campaigns..

The Girondins were the prime mover in expelling the Feuillants (the royalists) who had 264 members in the Legislative Assembly, because of the latters opposition to the war with Austria. They were the first to purge someone. The Montagnards followed this precedent, except with massacres. 841 Feuillants were on the Montagnards arrest lists during the terror.

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Some sources think Segur himself was not in favour of the Segur decree.

Sanson denied the reports the guillotine went through his head. But the evidence of the damaged skull from the exhumation in 1817 suggests this is fact happened.

Jacques Louis David was offered a pardon if he would be court painter to Louis XVIII during the Restoration but turned it down so he was exiled. I think he returned under Louis Philippe though but not as court painter.

The Thermidorian coalition was unstable because it needed to rely on the Muscadins, some of whom were closet royalists. When the Muscadins came out of the closet in the Vendemiare revolt as royalists, Napoleon defeated them with the "whiff of grapeshot". The Directory was then dependent on the army, which Napoleon used to overthrow it in 1799. They also had to cancel election results that the royalists won, which alienated them from the Right and surviving aristocracy, some of whom were starting to return in the 1797 amnesty. They also alienated the Left by cracking down on the Jacobin club and Gracchus Babeuf. Paul Barras was a former noble.

When Winston Churchill saw a picture of Louis XI he said, "Now I understand why there was a revolution."

Any thoughts on the notion that much of the peasantry were doing this in the name of the King and that he was believed by the popular violence to be in support of the reclamation of power from the Seigneurs? Simon Schama discusses this at length in 'Citizens' and I think it's a very interesting perspective

Antwerp is not where it should be on your map!

Het is jammer dat je zo snel spreekt en ook geen adempauzes neemt, dat maakt het voor mij helaas onkijkbaar. En ik zeg helaas want het lijkt mij een goede serie.

Amazing Series, sir !

Thank you so much for the Channel! There are many others who cover the same topic but none of my knowledge are equal. Epic history is not as in depth and the same to other podcasts. Also thank you so much for the pronunciation! There is a podcast out there that made me quit my subscribing just due to the pronuciation of Bagartion alone. You take the extra step to say thing properly, and present things in a professional manner.

In the beginning its missing "Lord protect us for we rain too young"

25:30 That cartoon on the right... Am I missing something, or did they get the colours of their own flag wrong?

Honestly, I'd rate the St Domingue expedition as worse than the Spanish genocide of native Americans in South America, the height of European colonialism in Africa, or the crimes against Aboriginals in our own country - even if the death tolls were higher in other places. At least in those scenarios, the participants had been thoroughly indoctrinated (the former in Christian supremacy and the latter in white supremacy). Napoleon, however, had every reason not to believe in that ideology - there were few places in the world where the idea of racial equality was more accepted than in Revolutionary France. He was once a Jacobin for God's sake - how could he go so far backwards? Sorry for the rant, lol. Napoleon is such a frustrating figure.

One of the things I love about this series is that you don't just hyperfocus on the military affairs, but also the civil. It's something I really respected about your coverage of the Revolution, as well. So much about this era focuses on battles and guillotinings, but ignores the political and social aspects that all this stuff was actually "about".

Best Napoleon series on the platform. Hands down. I've rewarched it a dozen times. I'm giddy to get to the Russian campaign

Super material! Finally, a more balanced history of the French Revolution! PS Have you read Mathiez?

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Just now catching up on the 3 latest episodes! I love that even with the bell button on RUclips still fails to notify me

This exact video is how I discovered your channel. There's a lot about Napoleon on YT, but precious little about the wars before. And now of course I must watch through the whole series. Thank you for amazing content, I can't wait for more.