The French Revolution | Part 6 | The Rights of Man
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“Liberté, égalité, fraternité!”
Alongside violence, the French Revolution is a story of principles and values. It is the ultimate intersection of brutality and Enlightenment idealism, as epitomised by the Fall of the Bastille. So too the creation and implementation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man - a totemic manifesto for the French state, which seemingly embodied a shockingly overt rupture from the past. Not only one of the decisive moments of the French Revolution, the declaration would prove transformative for all world history, and galvanised France as the cradle of of modern nationalism. So, just as the walls of the Bastille were abolished, the words of the document tore down something just as old and once impenetrable: the taint of absolutism, handing sovereignty from the king to the nation. By the 4th of August 1789 this amorphous beast was gripped by a great hysterical, almost paranoid passion, and it was amidst this turmoil that the French Assemblée Constituante voted unanimously to abolish feudalism, in one fell swoop eliminating everything that had come before. What would this consciously manufactured new beginning hold in store for Revolutionary France, or was it merely a bombastic continuation of the past?
Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss the groundbreaking ideas behind the French Revolution, along with the deep history of the ideals its enshrined. So too the stories behind some of its most famous iconography, and the long-term repercussions of this transformative upheaval for the modern world.
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If you’d told me a week ago that watching two dudes talking to one another would be a riveting experience, I would not have believed you.
The new Smith and Jones.
I'm exactly where you were 2 weeks ago, can't put it down.
Isn’t it surprisingly riveting? And so educational- and there are touch points to our current time
Everything that undermines Vast Broadcasting Companies.
Pooftar's but yeah interesting
This is a great series. Thanks
Thanks from France! le comte de Noailles you can pronounce it " No-eye" just 2 vowels 😉
Honestly, that's ridiculous. All those letters for 2 syllables. There's nothing more useless than a silent letter.
You guys are providing an absolutely excellent service. Thank you so much for this.
Just binge watching totally. I would like another ten episodes. Can't get enough of these guys. Brilliant.
Best history info on RUclips ❤ encouraging art and history students to listen to this series.
You're RIGHT! The Sermon on the Mount reverberates through the Rights of Man, Professor Holland
...interesting to note, Mandela and Ghandi knew the sermon on the mount word for word.
How many parts are there planned for this series? Really enjoying it!
There are 8 episodes total on Spotify. They've since moved on to other topics.
Well, that depends on if you think the French revolution ever actually ended. I think they are onto their 5th or 6th Republic, aren't they?
I also listen to Tom Holland’s brother James Holland’s podcast with Al Murray and a common feature of both is that the topics end up taking numerous episodes to cover.
James and Al’s podcast is called We Have Ways of Making You Talk and is about WW2 well worth a listen 👍
@@nigeh5326 Me too! Both are brilliant.
I think they said they would return to it later in the year
Fabulous history videos!!!
This series on the Fr revolution has been superlative, made better by the interaction between the hosts, reminding me of Basil Brush being read a story by Mr Derek. Cultural icons
They have great chemistry!
Boom! Boom!
lol
Absolutely thrilled to have found this channel...thoroughly addicted!
Voltaire's work is so very FUNNY - YOU TWO help create "THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS" Thank You Both Kindly. Semper Fidelis
This is fantastic. Well done Gents 😊
It's helpful that Tom Holland is religiously literate: he shows understanding for the dilemma for the Catholic clergy.
This is probably the most thrillingly informative insight into great historic events by two delightful unstuffy historians? If education was driven by people of their stature perhaps society wld be better served & wld more clearly understand the value & lessons of history that shed light on our own troubled times.
Loving this series. Revisiting an A level with years of wisdom in between.
Speaking of the rights of Man, I thought that it would be worth a couple of words on the rights of Woman, written in September 1791, by the extraordinary figure of the activist, abolitionist, playwright and Girondine Olympe de Gouges (born Marie Gouze), who also opposed to the excessesof the revolution, the violence, and the Terror, including to the execution of Louis XVI. Robespierre had her head on the 3 of November 1793 aged 45.
Never thought l would hear Feargal Sharkey mentioned in a podcast about The French Revolution 😊
Brilliant stuff well delivered with a touch of good humoured rubbing of our cousins across La Manche/The Channel 👍
has to be said everything is great, but when it comes to names of people and places it would be great if they were put up on screen (when mentioned) so we knew how they are spelt so further investigation could be done ... as some names and places are are just hard to translate from speech to words ... and it kinda kills those trains of thought
Great! Thanks!!! 💙💙💙💙💙🦩⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️
As Fitzgerald put it, " So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past ", liberty, equality and fraternity - history unfolds and a terrible beauty is born, while all that is solid, melts into air
This is lovely you guys and now I need to know why you have this resentment against the Vicomte de Noailles… actually it brings to mind, but I would love to have a series of episodes, if you haven’t done them already, on the nature of the, “special relationship“ between the US and the UK, starting with theAmerican Revolution. I have some British friends that remain quite snarky regarding the Fourth of July.
....and why wouldn't they be, and of course they are? You have to understand the British lost the Revolution. Why would they want to be reminded of it?
Take, for example the analogy playing in a soccer match. IF, the British were on the losing side of a soccer match do you think that they would want to be reminded of a particular game defeat, who's anniversary comes up on the same day every single year? That's like pouring salt into the wound. Your British friends know that they lost, okay. It goes without saying King George was too mentally impaired to even understand that he lost an entire colony !! Fr. Then to keep reminding anyone that's British that the United States celebrate this holiday called the 4th of July is just downright insensitive and cruel.
Trust me when it comes to discussions about the 4th of July and what it stands for the British finally got the memo on that one rest assured they did.
No Taxation without Representation, Gentlemen!!
Great work. 👍 I am glued 👊
Why dont upload the Franz Ferdinand series? Maybe the most tragic event in the last 200 years. Is really sad to listen, because you feel how easy the 20th could be different.
4:30pm? I can't wait that long.
Paraphrasing: "the idea that the elites are plotting the starvation and ruin of the country" -- ive noticed in this series there have been a few worrying resemblances to the troubling times in which we live
Of course. I’m French and each time I read or hear about the Revolution I can’t help but wonder if this is about 18th century France or 21st century France with it’s impossible budgets and people defending their small and big priviledges. And it echoes the struggle between the masses and the elites in the western world in general.
@@didfet5496 And the paranoia.
@@le13579 Nah there is no paranoia when the elites are genuinely out to get us peasants.
Interesting that you finally mentioned Cromwell.
Last 15 minutes were terrific!! So nice to hear someone who knows a bit of religious history. Thanks. FYI - I'm about to give a series of 8 lectures, 2 hours each, on the art history, and the political history, as well as other developments in France from 1789 to 1900. It will be a wild ride. It will be held in downtown Toronto.
Captivating, entertaining, informative. Thanks so very much.! PS. Here I digress- deep apologies.
It would be interesting, and quite sure entertaining and thought provoking if you guys put the history of WALES under your examination loop. Interesting- for me, anyway, as descendant of not-so-long ago immigrants to the US from Wales, have relatives in Wales who consider Welch as their first language, speak Welch at home, laugh when the English Prince of Wales appears on tv :" He isn't OUR prince, we have OUR OWN princes" and a toss up on which is hated most, the English or sheep? (A true Welch inspired sentence) My dad was like that. I am now an immigrant to Denmark. (The wandering Welch Person :0)? Thanks for listening. Thanks for your time.
+1 please
@@LittleLouieLagazza Thank you so much! Warms my "wandering" heart :0) 1
"The nstion" can only mean the area in which the natives have a common language. Wonder if anybody in 1789 -1815 ever did think about that?
Loved DOMINION Prof Holland!!
This series is awesome!!!
This series, as superb as it is, would enhance it's value with accompanying illustrations/images. Talking heads are perfect for podcasting, streaming not so much.
No. Fine as it is, thanks. If in doubt, read a book.
That said, I was just admiring the cinematographic value of Dom's office with its touches of cobalt blue, and Tom's office with its more austere steel blue palette.
No need , they are so compelling I don’t watch them
, I LISTEN. They are superb
We love a talking head.
This is a podcast not a BBC historical.
Surprised to not hear a mention of Rousseau.
yes... the begetter of false babies
This series is essential.
As much as I respect him Im not convinced by 'Tom's Gambit'. He seems to fail to consider that
Voltaire could have sourced his morality not from the catholic superstition that ran tge ancient regime but from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which it would be ridiculous to think unstudied by Voltaire.
Although the parish priests may have joined the national assembly the bishops never would. Rome and the papacy had been running europe in a so visibly corrupt way thats also ridiculous to think the people starved without wondering why the church gave no tax . The idea of the Catholic church being the font of virtue in european culture is a classic propaganda. And the renaissance? The Crusade against the Cathar's- and the Bartholomew's Day, massacre of French Huguenots (Protestants) in Paris on August 24/25, 1572, plotted by Catherine de' Medici and carried out by Roman Catholic nobles and other citizens. It was one event in the series of civil wars between Roman Catholics and Huguenots that beset France in the late 16th century are all undiscussed as possible causes for the loss of faith in the Roman representative of God.
Not only did it put an end to the feudal system, disband a kingdom and its monarchy, and establish civil laws and fairer representation of all peoples under governance, it also served to unify and strengthen France as a country and a people.
As you explained the revolution had almost nothing to do with the Church or Christianity.. Rather financial ruin, tax reform delays. Which the revolutionists didn't do anything revolutionary rather pushed this orientation and actions that poor leadership didn't do a year earlier.
The various groups that jumped in particularly protestants used this opportunity to push their own idealogy but has nothing to do with why France feel into ruin..
Furthermore this constitution reads very much like a copy from the USA and through the ties of Lafayette... Christianity and the Church served France very well before then
Brilliant. Thank you guys!
Is it just me ?….all this sounds eerily like what is happening in the USA right now !!!!
Note that the civil constitution of the clergy guaranteed clerical salaries at a time of deep economic uncertainty
52 minutes...... Tom, legend. 😊
Orthodox Christiandom is the universal church. Rome separated in 1054. There are some similarities but also significant differences. Torturing and murdering someone on the wheel is definitely not Christian, but the reaction of that wrongly accused man was. The atrocities of the French Revolution are disturbing.
But Orthodox Christendom is not united so how can it be the universal church? In order to be universal, it must be one and undivided.
@@richardyates7280 the orthodox churches ARE united. Who is Rome united with?
The French revolution led to communism, which slaughtered orthodox christians in Russia.......this cannot be overstated....😢
....so, was Voltaire buried in France, or in Greece?
Dominic has become a GP in the thumbnail.
Phenomenal episode 👏
Amazing series,
You’re wrong about Voltaire though. He was an enigma. In addition to attacking the church, he spoke out about tolerance for the church. And he put his money where his mouth was. He had a church built at his own expense on his estate in Ferne, and hired a Father Adam to live there. He also provided safe refuge at his estate for the Jesuits when they were expelled from France, even though they aided in his expulsion from France.
The list goes on.
Voltaire was bad......period....he did more to harm Catholic France than any war or pleague.....
Prof Sandbrook is quite the Patriot! DON'T YOU KNOW IT ALL PEAKED BEFORE 1 JULY 1916?? 🌎🇺🇸🇬🇧 in that order
I appreciate your DEEP INSIGHTS on property & sovereignty, Professor Holland!!! 🤗💯
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Of course they're not reading Voltaire, most of them can't read ...
These two are absolutely fascinating to listen to. They make the history of the french revolution come alive in such a clear way. I totally love this series. 👍🏻🙏🏼
Fantastic series
To paulist not evangelical enough
Did you cover the Rise of the Vende
This episode is making me feel very uneasy. So many parallels in contemporary society.
Beheadings, kings acting subserviently, conspiracy theories, depopulation by the aristocracy, storming buildings of authority, the breakdown of the bicameral form of government. The cult of self dispossession. It goes on and on.
The Revolutionary left had clearer projects to get rid of surplus population as they judged it. Actually even Malthus was a Brit Malthusianism was far more popular in France than in England.
Thank you : )
Also seems that Christianity (and other religions and schools of thought for that matter) appropriated universal human values in the first place, so may be we are all blessed or cursed with these instinctive values and want to make sense of them all through religion, human rights, etc. BTW, a suggestion for the future episodes - the Japan-Korea-China war of 1592 and onwards? A major international conflict on the other side of the planet that doesn't get covered much here in the west. Wonder what, if any, interaction this conflict had with the west and vice versa.
Toyotomi deserves his own series.
Indeed, and the ripple effect his ambition had on the entire geopolitical order of the time in that region
Where did Christianity appropriate universal human rights from?
@@thejoin4687 Agreed, he's a real fascinating character. A man who went from being a commoner to the highest ruler on his island, only then to further enforce a class system
The Catholic Church teaches that there is such a thing as natural moral law, which is derived from an analysis of human nature (as created by God). This natural law is available through reason and is universal (because human nature is universal)
Muito interessante
Why they didn’t say Marie Antoilette at 20.15 is completely beyond me
If I looked like a peeled boiled potato in spectacles, I would not be so eager to criticize the appearances of other people, the French included.
Hmm..but...It separated Church and State for the first time in Europe. It reformed family law, giving women and men equality in inheritance, secularizing marriage, and permitting divorce for the first time in France. It criminalized violence against women. It decriminalized homosexuality.
Which is why it was bad......
I KNEW you'd name THE quintessential 17th c. underground Philosoph VOLTAIRE, Prof Holland!! He was my namesake's lover - guest of Frederick the Great at San Souci!!!
Rubbish and nonsense. Back to your cave!
Lol Tom Holland seriously thinks only Christians are disturbed by witnessing torture.
I think he is claiming that Christians and non-Christians in a Christian culture are formed by that culture. Christian culture would be particularly sensitized to this issue because its founder was tortured to death, and the instrument of that torture and reflections on it are very much central.
All the French did was a redo of what the Americans did before. And the English. Nothing original. Your admiration of the crazy insanity of the French is funny. The 'Rights of Man' is just a rewrite of the Magna Carta, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Like your show, but really, a little silly in your insistence that the French Revolution was somehow unique and special. Maybe it was, for the Catholic countries. But then again, Henry the 8th had already booted the Catholic church out of England centuries before.
LMAO You can’t be serious
@@GoBlueGirl78 I was at the time. Then again, I'd had a few beer.
It states in the Bible that what we do passes down to three generations. Louis, the 14th who proclaimed to be the "Sun king," might have caused Louis the 16th to be executed by its subjects. It also brought in democracy to America, Germany, and other parts of the world. I think Louis the 14th wanted to outshine Britain. It would make sense because these two nations have been at war for many years. The monarchy of the UK is standing firm in Europe. Its language is used by more people than French.
Are you blind, or simply being ignorant today?
@@LittleLouieLagazza He is entitled to his point of view, which is not 100% but relevant nevertheless : the reality is that Britain, though a much smaller country, was definitely heading the scientific and industrial revolution and had also achieved its national linguistic unity : all people in England proper and many overseas communities could then understand each other (despite the awful class differences), while such a result would be achieved by France only through the second half of the XIXth century and with much more pain, despite the fact that French was the favourite language of the diplomatic class world-wide (in great part due to the British ruling class' pressure who had assessed that elite French speakers did not defend the French nation's interests but their class and therefore formed a winning arena for British interests). Louis XIV through at the head of much bigger country than England was clearly trying to catch up with what Britain and Holland were doing sometimes with great success but not in all domains : France had not lost its power but it had lost the initiative of the game.
The red white and blue of the coquette couldn't possibly be a reference to the USA's flag then?
You know, La Fayette and all that?
I suppose we have to keep that quiet in case the French realise their flag is derived from the St Patrick, St Andrew and St George flags.
I like to think the English have at least attempted to maintain a link with their heritage. No real "year zero".
England didn't have all those Rights of Man. One could we haven't yet.
One of the points of this video was to show that the Declaration of the Rights of Man didn’t come out of nowhere. There was an english Bill of Rights in 1689 and the american Bill of Rights was adopted in 1789. Furthermore the ECHR was incorporated into UK law in 1998.
"The nation can only mean the area in which the natives speak the same language.
Didn't anybody in the revolutionary years - or later on - think about that?
Ohhh how profound 😂
@@ulrikjensen6841 That was absolutely not the case in France in 1789. Most people didn’t speak French.
@@ulrikjensen6841 I personally am certain they did history always being more thought out than we would expect and what might be spontaneous is always overtaken and used for other purposes.
Watched the first video in this series, i was disappointed in both your attutudes to MA about her ability to read, looked into it a little, the woman looked as though she could of had ADHD or something similar, but you gave no insight into this as a possibility, and were quite disparaging and stuck up about it, some conext could have been useful here to your audience instead of just putting her down for it
They weren't disparaging her, they were offering commentary and discussing her. Seriously, no one cares about your feelings, bugger off with the ADHD it is of no consequence to the facts of history.
Henry the VIIIth appropriates the monasteries: "That's great, y'know? Very English!"
The French Revolutionaries seize Church Land in France: "The horror. The horror."