Taught to whom? American HS students would eat these two alive! Most teens first of all don't care about history at all. Hell, most adults don't care and never will. Teachers have limited time to maybe convey the basic most important information to undisciplined, disrespectful, uninterested audience imaginable. Not a recipe for success.
This is how history should be taught. The response to OP is right in that most people don't care but wrong about the talent of tom and Dominic. They are top notch. The biggest problem is we are talking about the top historical writers in world. About 80% of teachers are worthless. 15% are average and 5% are truly wonderful teachers. There is just not a Tom Holland growing in trees out there in public education.
It's like how dancers make it look easy. 😉 It belies the years of endless sourcing and citing that underpins the knowledge. I think it's that foundational part where the kids often switch off.
I went to George Washington’s Estate, Mount Vernon, a couple years ago and they had the key 🔑 to the Bastille in a glass box on display. The tour guide said it was given to George Washington by La Fayette. It was so wild to see and the tour guide said it was the only key left. Thank you so much for this wonderful series! You both are fantastic storytellers.
I thought the bastille key was one of the most fascinating bits of history at mount vernon. It’s just hanging on the wall in the foyer, inside a glass box.
M’y goodness ! Having my regular breakfasts with this charismatic pair of men now. What a brilliant way of delivering such important history events , what humour, what sarcasm (« The French guards proved rather unreliable, ´we are French before we are slaves’ … it’s like policemen taking the knee. »😂👏👏!) Recommending ithe podcast now to all my friends and to my children in particular. ❤
These episodes are so fun to watch!! I’m so glad I got onto this side of RUclips, I love learning about history and these videos are so well researched and put together so it’s such a treat having been recommended this channel!
I just binged these series yesterday/today (watched the last two episodes twice lol) and I was JUST about to watch another one of your series but you guys came through! Love from a tax dodger across the pond!
As an Australian I'm fascinated to imagine the reaction of the people of the first fleet that arrived in January 1788 when the second fleet arrived in 1790 and said to the emancipated colonists "You won't believe what has been happening in Europe"
Ah, Lafayette--controversial 200 years later, which is a kind of immortality. To the French right, he betrayed the monarchy; to the French left, he betrayed the Republic. And to the French intellectuals, he was a dwarf because he didn't leave behind volumes of theory and philosophy to parse endlessly. In fact he was completely loyal throughout his life to the constitution written by the assembly and the constitutional monarchy they established. They also slag him for not being the hard man to rule Paris. This from academics who can barely keep order in a seminar room, and who can't get their mistresses to behave. Simon Schama--not an American (yet)--gives him credit for keeping the lid on for as long as he did, and longer than anyone else until the Directory.
A funny anecdote from Bastille storm is how some of swiss guards (who didn't belong to the "swiss guards" but to a classic swiss infantry regiment) manage to survive the mob. I can't remember of his name, but one of them explained that he survived because, after initially being taken prisoner by the mob as one of the guard of the Bastille, as the hours passed and the confusion grew, he ended up being mistaken for an ex-prisoner freed from the fortress, going so far as to be cheered on the balcony of the town hall by the mob that had tried to kill him a few hours earlier. He collected money and food given by the crowd, which he used to return quietly to his regiment outside Paris 😅
@@louisixlefourbe8075no worries about the initial lack of information your story is still funny nonetheless. It's absolutely comical to read what you wrote.
Innocent bloke has his hand chopped off, survives the rest of the day and then is hung due to mistaken identity. Tom says 'that's unfortunate'. Classic British understatement right there. "it's just a flesh wound".
I am so thrilled I found y'alls channel. I'm really loving this French revolution break down. The detail y'all include is amazing! Can't wait to go back and binge the older stuff! Much love from Texas!
Just delightful to learn more about history in this way. Also I’m glad Tom is now facing the correct way - things have not been good in England since his camera was moved for the previous episodes!
I’m American so I’m not really up on European History- I know big shocker- but these podcasts are just fascinating - very enjoyable- keep up the great work- your educating the world
Being of an age, I acquired any knowledge I have of the French Revolution from the Roger Brook series of books by Dennis Wheatley. Read them as a child and loved them. This period was very extensively covered but these guys put in so much else too. Thanks guys.
Marvellous! What an artistic approach to a great historic event that changed the destiny of many nations and defined their future. Thank you for your elegant presentation that abounds in interesting facts, famous names and cinematographic descriptions. Bravo!
The French revolution is a template for all the crowd's madness in the world. If you know the French revolution there is not much left to know about the history of mankind. Thank you for your deep and thorough knowledge!
@@bogdanpopescu1401 True! Everything started when the vain and self-righteous intellectuals came to believe that they possess supreme knowledge of things. The cult of wit and intellectual prowess spread itself to morals, ideology and politics.
So I was intrigued by the text overlay on your YT thumbnail (I will get around to ACTUALLY watching this video I promise) and was thinking to myself that there's a VERY EXCELLENT reason why the French Revolution played out the way it did vs the way the American Revolution played out the way it did and essentially it all comes down to the old adage about real estate, "location, location, location". The distance between Versailles and Paris is about TEN MILES ± a mile depending on what and how you're querying (my Echo Dot says eleven but Google comes up with 9 so I'm splitting the difference😂😂😂). The distance between London and Boston just to pick a specific location (I'm making certain to maintain the "order of operations" from "king" to "peasant"😊) is about 3,271 miles (the first time I asked my Echo Dot it said something like 300 something miles which I'm pretty sure is the kind navigational miscalculation that Columbus set off with AND IS WRONG😂😂😂) PLUS there's the ENTIRE WIDTH of the second largest ocean on the planet between them. IF the citizens of Boston COULD have just walked from Boston Mass to say Newton Mass to "redress" their grievances in person like the Parisians could, I'd be willing to bet that that blue pissing nut job George III would have stood an excellent chance of ending up being buried without the usual neck topping of most dead Kings TOO! And here in the good ole US of A when WE were done with our revolution WE did the civilized thing and DEPORTED our would be counter revolutionaries up to British Canada or better still back to Merry Old England herself😂😂😂😂 Still if all things HAD been equal the "guillotine" would today most likely be known as the "franklin" 😂😂😂
God bless all of the long-haired poets throwing cobblestones! May they be born in greater profusion, and long may they live! Without the revolutionaries, we would all be living in a Borg cube by now.
Fantastic guys! You actually make me hungry! Me, only with the boring contents of an almost empty fridge... . Great job! Thank you, very entertaining AND informative.
So, in other words, The Marquis de Sade & Jean Francois Marmontel, were living 'high on the hog' in luxury in the Bastille 😂😂. Sounds to me like they were treated like the All Capone's of their day 😅😅? In my country we would not call conditions like that a jail. Conditions like that is what, we call 'Club Fed'. Prisoners are still prisoners and locked away but they definitely are not treated as such per se on the inside they still have a huge amount of 'creature comforts' of home.
Great stuff. What unleashed mob really is, is not understood by vast majority of people. It is an absolutely terrifying beast. But of course to borrow from russian: and then it got worse.. and so it will in Paris and France.
i like the idea of “unleashed” and on this chilly nov7 ‘24 in rural arizona i think the same has happened here in the united tastes with jan 6 our bastille and nov5 our manifest troubles.
I only concern is that we as historians and history buffs tend to set these people in a different mindset than ourselves. We do better to look at them as equals and the same as we are because here we are.
Cornwallis called Lafayette "The Boy" and inflicted a sharp reverse on him in Virginia on 6 July 1781, at Greensprings (or Green Springs Farm/Plantation). I go with Dom's assessment.
Please talk about Talleyrand! He survived the French Revolution by always having to attend to land that he owned in America 😂. His DEATH BED is Historic!
This series is very interesting; my only feedback to the content creators is that the 'closed captioning' is wildly inaccurate, especially regarding the spellings of hard-for-an-American-to-understand French names, places, etc. Otherwise, thank you for the series!
Great episode as always but a note to the editor, the showing of historical images or portraits alongside the conversations is great but the animated explosion, cannons and sound effects really cheapens the whole thing.
No Suisse Guards - but Salis Samade, wearing the linen frock, the mob mistook them as soldiers being punished because of this dressed, they got treated better than the poor Invalides.
'it started with wax heads and ended with real heads' I suppose the Kathy Griffin/ Green Day analogy culminating in an assassination attempt would be too embarassing for Dominic to mention. History rhyming or have some people just got it coming.
As much as I enjoyed this podcast, I sensed a very British, cynical attempt to tone down the revolution to some cool, not-too-bad rich folks versus a rabid, violence-crazed, blood thirsty mob. But the anecdote of the Bastille governor having breakfast with half the city at his door sums up how much they despised (and misjudged) the people. I could also do without the laughter about starving and frozing children on the previous episode. The beauty of the French Revolution is that it very likely will happen again.
@@humblescribe8522 I don't think was any regiment of dragoons called Royal Allemand. The dragoons, still expected to be able to serve on foot, when foraging, in fortresses and when horses were in short supply or in peacetime. The cavalry were the descendants of the chevauleger regiments.
By the mid-19th century the distinction between dragoons and cavalry had went away. Mounted troops were just "cavalry" and were expected to both fight on foot and mounted.
@@bbainter7880 the same was well on the way to happening by 1789. Dragoons had slightly smaller horses and were expected to do more of the donkey work on campaign but they still had to be proficient in infantry drill as well. My point was that the Royal Allemand was not a dragoon regiment but cavalry. That was as much part of their name as the Royal German part.
55:55 wasn't this just a French Runnymede? The Anglo Saxons had always elected their kings from among the nobility. It was the perfidious French myth of inheritance and absolutism that took hold in 1066, only to be summarily ejected in 1215.
Louis guillotin invented that instrument of execution in post Bastille storming although never saiid he took part actual in the executings of Louis or Marie royals nobility
but the King is not the representative of God on Earh? So basically even if is not part of European philosophy was not the Mandate of Heaven the bad weather was somehow the sign that God is displeased of his representative?
The misunderstood remarks and comments by the people on the inside of The Bastille and the calamity afterwards which ensued reminds me very much of the misunderstood message that went out the day that the Wall came down in Germany. What was mistaken for a direct order was actually meant as a discussion talking point, between a set of closed door individuals. However, somehow or another it got out to the outside world completely differently then what was actually meant.This misunderstanding was mistaken for a mistaken 'go ahead', to have the wall separating East and West Germany to be completely destroyed. Funny how the big man upstairs works in mysterious ways!!
Interesting to hear a poet being criticised for speaking out during a famine demanding virtue. The type of guy Dominic confesses to despises. How curious.
The rhetoric of virtue that tainted the french guards sent to protect the people from the foreign dragoons that lost the plot is like seeing the police take the knee?? Arguably that would be an improvement from the police having its feet on the throat of my fellow citizens. Not sure if our bold historian's are clearly seeing cause and effect here. And the church? Were they they truly interested in the plight of the starving? Tax is bread. The King, the nobles and the bishops, unwilling to break bread with the people, called forth Nemesis. And today the wealth distribution curve is more extreme, the oncoming storm greater, and people living and dying in miserable conditions numbers is called a ' Cost of living crisis. Crimes against humanity remain unprosecutable. Same as it ever was.
Comment about our flag : la fleur de lys is now labelled : « far right ». French revolution is still ongoing in our country. And by exporting itself abroad, it has gained such a momentum that it is likely to keep on until the system it has created collapses on itself. Like the old, tired and decadent aristocracy it replaced.
This is how history should be taught. The chemistry between the two commentators, bring this well known historical event to life.
Taught to whom? American HS students would eat these two alive! Most teens first of all don't care about history at all. Hell, most adults don't care and never will. Teachers have limited time to maybe convey the basic most important information to undisciplined, disrespectful, uninterested audience imaginable. Not a recipe for success.
@@unappreciatedtreehouse821 Lazy take
This is how history should be taught. The response to OP is right in that most people don't care but wrong about the talent of tom and Dominic. They are top notch. The biggest problem is we are talking about the top historical writers in world. About 80% of teachers are worthless. 15% are average and 5% are truly wonderful teachers. There is just not a Tom Holland growing in trees out there in public education.
@@unappreciatedtreehouse821 As long as you appreciate this POD cast. That really should be all that matters.
It's like how dancers make it look easy. 😉
It belies the years of endless sourcing and citing that underpins the knowledge.
I think it's that foundational part where the kids often switch off.
Never in the history of history podcasts has so much history been communicated to so many by so few!
actually by two.
Brilliant!
Is this their finest hour?
@@R08Tam oooh! We have a winner.
Nailed it. Cleverly stated! This podcast is a dream for me. Bravo from America!
It’s amazing how these series run like a thriller even though everyone knows the ending.
Even though the outcome is no surprise I'm still hyped for these episodes. Its been a banger!
BANGER
I went to George Washington’s Estate, Mount Vernon, a couple years ago and they had the key 🔑 to the Bastille in a glass box on display. The tour guide said it was given to George Washington by La Fayette. It was so wild to see and the tour guide said it was the only key left. Thank you so much for this wonderful series! You both are fantastic storytellers.
I thought the bastille key was one of the most fascinating bits of history at mount vernon. It’s just hanging on the wall in the foyer, inside a glass box.
La Fayette lied lol
@@welshman8954You purport to know this how?
M’y goodness ! Having my regular breakfasts with this charismatic pair of men now. What a brilliant way of delivering such important history events , what humour, what sarcasm (« The French guards proved rather unreliable, ´we are French before we are slaves’ … it’s like policemen taking the knee. »😂👏👏!)
Recommending ithe podcast now to all my friends and to my children in particular. ❤
These episodes are so fun to watch!! I’m so glad I got onto this side of RUclips, I love learning about history and these videos are so well researched and put together so it’s such a treat having been recommended this channel!
I just binged these series yesterday/today (watched the last two episodes twice lol) and I was JUST about to watch another one of your series but you guys came through!
Love from a tax dodger across the pond!
it was just 2%, look what it got us into
Don't be a tax dodger 🙏🏽
@@Anna_Key just a joke
As an Australian I'm fascinated to imagine the reaction of the people of the first fleet that arrived in January 1788 when the second fleet arrived in 1790 and said to the emancipated colonists "You won't believe what has been happening in Europe"
Who was emancipated? But definitely an interesting thought.
Ah, Lafayette--controversial 200 years later, which is a kind of immortality. To the French right, he betrayed the monarchy; to the French left, he betrayed the Republic. And to the French intellectuals, he was a dwarf because he didn't leave behind volumes of theory and philosophy to parse endlessly. In fact he was completely loyal throughout his life to the constitution written by the assembly and the constitutional monarchy they established.
They also slag him for not being the hard man to rule Paris. This from academics who can barely keep order in a seminar room, and who can't get their mistresses to behave. Simon Schama--not an American (yet)--gives him credit for keeping the lid on for as long as he did, and longer than anyone else until the Directory.
Fantastic post you left. But can you explain what is The Directory, by the way in which you are using it?
@@manuellubian5709 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Directory
So you again excuse the cowardice and avarice of upper class and the royal family
Typical
I gather your a conservative
@@evangiles4403he fought and was wounded for the freedom of people who weren’t even his countrymen. BUT - he had nice clothes. Checkmate republicans
Oh you two are dragging us in again!!! The telling is epic. Your expressions are priceless. Thank you, thank you!
A funny anecdote from Bastille storm is how some of swiss guards (who didn't belong to the "swiss guards" but to a classic swiss infantry regiment) manage to survive the mob. I can't remember of his name, but one of them explained that he survived because, after initially being taken prisoner by the mob as one of the guard of the Bastille, as the hours passed and the confusion grew, he ended up being mistaken for an ex-prisoner freed from the fortress, going so far as to be cheered on the balcony of the town hall by the mob that had tried to kill him a few hours earlier. He collected money and food given by the crowd, which he used to return quietly to his regiment outside Paris 😅
I got his name, he was the Swiss Lieutenant de Flue, from the Swiss Sali-Samade regiment (and not, as I said, from the Swiss Guard)
@@louisixlefourbe8075no worries about the initial lack of information your story is still funny nonetheless. It's absolutely comical to read what you wrote.
Innocent bloke has his hand chopped off, survives the rest of the day and then is hung due to mistaken identity. Tom says 'that's unfortunate'. Classic British understatement right there. "it's just a flesh wound".
'tis but a scratch
@@milztempelrowski9281 we'll call it a draw :)
Great to see these episodes on RUclips. The podcast series has been amazing
I am so thrilled I found y'alls channel. I'm really loving this French revolution break down. The detail y'all include is amazing! Can't wait to go back and binge the older stuff!
Much love from Texas!
Thank you for all the joy you bring to history lovers!!!❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Very enjoyable dynamic presentation.
Just delightful to learn more about history in this way. Also I’m glad Tom is now facing the correct way - things have not been good in England since his camera was moved for the previous episodes!
Wonderful! I am listening to the whole series on the French Revolution…. And this ending is poignant and chilling as we move to Part 5. 🖤🖤🖤
I’m American so I’m not really up on European History- I know big shocker- but these podcasts are just fascinating - very enjoyable- keep up the great work- your educating the world
That cannon definitely would have had elephants on it 😂😂😂 I am picturing filigree elephants
Being of an age, I acquired any knowledge I have of the French Revolution from the Roger Brook series of books by Dennis Wheatley. Read them as a child and loved them. This period was very extensively covered but these guys put in so much else too. Thanks guys.
Marvellous! What an artistic approach to a great historic event that changed the destiny of many nations and defined their future. Thank you for your elegant presentation that abounds in interesting facts, famous names and cinematographic descriptions. Bravo!
Thanks
Tremendous episodes gents. Thank you!
Believe it or not, the rest is history is also listened to by Frenchmen, myself being one of them, keep up the good work, or else…. Revolution
French humour always has an "edge" to it. 😉
I can listen over and over, and each time catch something new
This Marie and her Louis sound quite lovely and tragically misunderstood. I hope they get to live happily ever after.
I think we know the answer to that...
Fingers crossed lol
They're head-ing somewhere together, that's for sure!
It is tragic how badly the sins of the fathers came to rest upon the undeserving
Unfortunately, they lost the coin toss when they called "tails."
The French revolution is a template for all the crowd's madness in the world. If you know the French revolution there is not much left to know about the history of mankind. Thank you for your deep and thorough knowledge!
a template for what happens when the crowd's madness teams up with the intellectuals' madness
@@bogdanpopescu1401 True! Everything started when the vain and self-righteous intellectuals came to believe that they possess supreme knowledge of things. The cult of wit and intellectual prowess spread itself to morals, ideology and politics.
You bring these events to life in a thoroughly entertaining style.
Thank you!
What a great show! I’m teaching this for A level and love your approach and insights. Thank you.
I'm French, and thanks to RUclips recommendation, I discovered this Channel. That's great, I'm hooked. Like and Subscribe.
Fabulous history videos!!;
French here. I knew more or less all that, but it is very well tell! Can't wait for the next episode.
Great job guys, extremely informative! Keep'em coming. Viva la France!
Love every part of this series, of only history was taught like this I'm schools! Have of course subscribed and will watch more!!
So I was intrigued by the text overlay on your YT thumbnail (I will get around to ACTUALLY watching this video I promise) and was thinking to myself that there's a VERY EXCELLENT reason why the French Revolution played out the way it did vs the way the American Revolution played out the way it did and essentially it all comes down to the old adage about real estate, "location, location, location". The distance between Versailles and Paris is about TEN MILES ± a mile depending on what and how you're querying (my Echo Dot says eleven but Google comes up with 9 so I'm splitting the difference😂😂😂). The distance between London and Boston just to pick a specific location (I'm making certain to maintain the "order of operations" from "king" to "peasant"😊) is about 3,271 miles (the first time I asked my Echo Dot it said something like 300 something miles which I'm pretty sure is the kind navigational miscalculation that Columbus set off with AND IS WRONG😂😂😂) PLUS there's the ENTIRE WIDTH of the second largest ocean on the planet between them. IF the citizens of Boston COULD have just walked from Boston Mass to say Newton Mass to "redress" their grievances in person like the Parisians could, I'd be willing to bet that that blue pissing nut job George III would have stood an excellent chance of ending up being buried without the usual neck topping of most dead Kings TOO! And here in the good ole US of A when WE were done with our revolution WE did the civilized thing and DEPORTED our would be counter revolutionaries up to British Canada or better still back to Merry Old England herself😂😂😂😂 Still if all things HAD been equal the "guillotine" would today most likely be known as the "franklin" 😂😂😂
love and respect to you both from Egypt
thank you
Amazing episode! Wow!
God bless all of the long-haired poets throwing cobblestones! May they be born in greater profusion, and long may they live! Without the revolutionaries, we would all be living in a Borg cube by now.
I agree with the last post - this is how history should be taught.
Fantastic guys! You actually make me hungry! Me, only with the boring contents of an almost empty fridge... . Great job! Thank you, very entertaining AND informative.
Ending this with "to be Burkian" as if we haven't spent the entire podcast discussing the revolution through a burkian lens is hilarious
This was great.
Enjoying all of your podcasts Bravo
Jacques Necker sounds so Carry On ... Citizen Necker meets Citizen Camembert
From Grand Rapids, MI…. I didn’t want this to end.
I have read that Thomas Jefferson was in Paris on July 14, 1789. I have always wondered just what he was doing.
These two are just tremendous.
Great off the cuff remark. Perhaps 'J Arthur Vainceurs"...
Just kind of slipped in that "sent to Military School" for a son out of control.
So, in other words, The Marquis de Sade & Jean Francois Marmontel, were living 'high on the hog' in luxury in the Bastille 😂😂. Sounds to me like they were treated like the All Capone's of their day 😅😅?
In my country we would not call conditions like that a jail. Conditions like that is what, we call 'Club Fed'.
Prisoners are still prisoners and locked away but they definitely are not treated as such per se on the inside they still have a huge amount of 'creature comforts' of home.
"Podpast"? We like it!
Inspector clouseau was at the Bastille 😂😂😂😂
Brilliant
Great stuff. What unleashed mob really is, is not understood by vast majority of people. It is an absolutely terrifying beast. But of course to borrow from russian: and then it got worse.. and so it will in Paris and France.
i like the idea of “unleashed” and on this chilly nov7 ‘24 in rural arizona i think the same has happened here in the united tastes with jan 6 our bastille and nov5 our manifest troubles.
Sounds like I could retire in the Bastille if I didn’t need sunlight.
Tom seems to have a million different libraries from which to broadcast.
I just hope Keir Starmer and the judge who locked up Julie Sweeney have listened to this episode!
I only concern is that we as historians and history buffs tend to set these people in a different mindset than ourselves. We do better to look at them as equals and the same as we are because here we are.
Saturday as the Friday media dump
Cornwallis called Lafayette "The Boy" and inflicted a sharp reverse on him in Virginia on 6 July 1781, at Greensprings (or Green Springs Farm/Plantation). I go with Dom's assessment.
Is it possible that Queen Marie Antoinette failed to recognize the danger, or did she miss any escape opportunities?
Hey! Avid french listenener here. 40:44 give yourself some credit.
Wait, you’re going to do a Hundred Years War series???? Oh sign me up
We keep seeing correlations between this pre revolutionary period and our own present one…
Please talk about Talleyrand! He survived the French Revolution by always having to attend to land that he owned in America 😂.
His DEATH BED is Historic!
Not really around yet. Give him time, he'll get there soon. Fouche too.
Hi guys, could you put the books that you end up recommending in the description please? would be really helpful 👍
Ah. NICE. ThankYou. Eagerly awaited, I'm sure, by 66.100 subscribers!
Dominic Sandbrook: Noted Bonapartist
Well, you have at least one french listener here :)
This series is very interesting; my only feedback to the content creators is that the 'closed captioning' is wildly inaccurate, especially regarding the spellings of hard-for-an-American-to-understand French names, places, etc. Otherwise, thank you for the series!
An interspersing of the occasion etching, painting or sketch of the people & places you describe would be amusing.
It would have been a title for the podcast "Despotism and Wotnot".
Very well done, my only complaint - it was a bit short....
Desperate for more illustrations. Great history anyway. Thanks.
I'm looking for The French Revolution part 6 but can't find it. Help please. Thank You!
It hasn't been aired yet.
Great episode as always but a note to the editor, the showing of historical images or portraits alongside the conversations is great but the animated explosion, cannons and sound effects really cheapens the whole thing.
ahem... (naturalized) French listener here
No Suisse Guards - but Salis Samade, wearing the linen frock, the mob mistook them as soldiers being punished because of this dressed, they got treated better than the poor Invalides.
The Royals had no "public relations" department? :D
'it started with wax heads and ended with real heads'
I suppose the Kathy Griffin/ Green Day analogy culminating in an assassination attempt would be too embarassing for Dominic to mention. History rhyming or have some people just got it coming.
As much as I enjoyed this podcast, I sensed a very British, cynical attempt to tone down the revolution to some cool, not-too-bad rich folks versus a rabid, violence-crazed, blood thirsty mob. But the anecdote of the Bastille governor having breakfast with half the city at his door sums up how much they despised (and misjudged) the people.
I could also do without the laughter about starving and frozing children on the previous episode.
The beauty of the French Revolution is that it very likely will happen again.
I could be wrong but I think the Royal Allemand were a cavalry, not a dragoon regiment.
Surely dragoons are cavalry.
@jackkelsey9326 technically mounted infantry I guess, but it's a very subtle distinction I'll grant you.
@@humblescribe8522 I don't think was any regiment of dragoons called Royal Allemand. The dragoons, still expected to be able to serve on foot, when foraging, in fortresses and when horses were in short supply or in peacetime. The cavalry were the descendants of the chevauleger regiments.
By the mid-19th century the distinction between dragoons and cavalry had went away. Mounted troops were just "cavalry" and were expected to both fight on foot and mounted.
@@bbainter7880 the same was well on the way to happening by 1789. Dragoons had slightly smaller horses and were expected to do more of the donkey work on campaign but they still had to be proficient in infantry drill as well.
My point was that the Royal Allemand was not a dragoon regiment but cavalry. That was as much part of their name as the Royal German part.
55:55 wasn't this just a French Runnymede?
The Anglo Saxons had always elected their kings from among the nobility.
It was the perfidious French myth of inheritance and absolutism that took hold in 1066, only to be summarily ejected in 1215.
Louis guillotin invented that instrument of execution in post Bastille storming although never saiid he took part actual in the executings of Louis or Marie royals nobility
Oh those French!
but the King is not the representative of God on Earh? So basically even if is not part of European philosophy was not the Mandate of Heaven the bad weather was somehow the sign that God is displeased of his representative?
They did WHAT with his heart?
The misunderstood remarks and comments by the people on the inside of The Bastille and the calamity afterwards which ensued reminds me very much of the misunderstood message that went out the day that the Wall came down in Germany.
What was mistaken for a direct order was actually meant as a discussion talking point, between a set of closed door individuals. However, somehow or another it got out to the outside world completely differently then what was actually meant.This misunderstanding was mistaken for a mistaken 'go ahead', to have the wall separating East and West Germany to be completely destroyed.
Funny how the big man upstairs works in mysterious ways!!
Interesting to hear a poet being criticised for speaking out during a famine demanding virtue. The type of guy Dominic confesses to despises. How curious.
The rhetoric of virtue that tainted the french guards sent to protect the people from the foreign dragoons that lost the plot is like seeing the police take the knee??
Arguably that would be an improvement from the police having its feet on the throat of my fellow citizens. Not sure if our bold historian's are clearly seeing cause and effect here. And the church? Were they they truly interested in the plight of the starving? Tax is bread. The King, the nobles and the bishops, unwilling to break bread with the people, called forth Nemesis. And today the wealth distribution curve is more extreme, the oncoming storm greater, and people living and dying in miserable conditions numbers is called a ' Cost of living crisis.
Crimes against humanity remain unprosecutable. Same as it ever was.
32:30 oozing with grease
Dominic needs to button up his shirt
London Calling.
Do you think Starmer knows history. I wonder how well the armories are locked up?
Comment about our flag : la fleur de lys is now labelled : « far right ».
French revolution is still ongoing in our country. And by exporting itself abroad, it has gained such a momentum that it is likely to keep on until the system it has created collapses on itself. Like the old, tired and decadent aristocracy it replaced.
Cannot Wait 🙏❤️
Taxation is theft 😀
I absolutely love your work! Please consider doing a history of Huey Long, the senator from Louisiana. He is fascinating.
30:40 "You might say that all Frenchmen are vainqueurs one way or another." We saw what you did there, Dominic :)
The long haired poet who wrote an ode to Parliament was definitely a prime example of a French vainqueur...