I’m in south China, in a city called Huizhou, drinking some Crozes-Hermitage and have just finished listening to your French Revolution series. I’m pretty speechless, what phenomenal drama you have unfolded, and with what clarity and style. Thanks guys. Vive The Rest Is History.
Totally enjoying this series on the French Revolution ... have already listened to all 8 episodes ... and now re-listening to each one of them to see what detail I might have missed ... this series is a triumph😍 Thank you so much🙏🏽
Hello everyone! Just to let you know, the last Fall of the Sioux episodes will be out in the coming weeks. We wanted to ensure that the French Revolutions episodes are released as video around the same time as the audio version. All the best, The Rest is History Team.
(QUESTION, from a U.S. teacher). Dear Tom & Dom: I have a historical question to ask about Marie Antoinette. At the time of her death, if I'm not mistaken her mother, Maria Thèrése, was already dead. I'm curious to know what was the reaction, back in Austria to the news of her death? Did anyone record what the sentiment was, back in her native country? Thanks for considering my questions.
I grew up poor in the Southern United States but my mother had a thing for trying to show us what she could show us of culture. The local supermarket had a series called the great artists and they had a different one every month. I believe there was something like 24 of them and my mother bought them all. The one that always stuck with me was The Death of Marat by David. It's still bouncing around in my mind today and every time I see something about the French revolution it's one of the first images I conjure up.
God bless your mother. Madame Roland was part of the enlightenment that wanted to put and end to French feudalism, but she fell victim to the revolutionary terror. Before being decapitated, she looked into the horizon and said "Oh, liberty, so many crimes committed in your name".
A strange thing I heard was that at the time, Europe was going through a mini ice-age which was making it extremely difficult to grow the usual crops. Apparently the Thames was frozen solid so regularly that massive markets were regularly held on it. A new crop called 'potatoes' had been brought back from the new world and since it grew underground, was proving to be able to survive the extreme cold weather. The French wouldn't plant potatoes believing they were an inferior food, so whilst other countries survived the widespread crop failures by relying on the more hardy new-at-the-time potato, the French people were starving and getting closer and closer to uprising. Interesting. Here's a doc about it : ruclips.net/video/VTW2Sczq2NA/видео.html
Re hairstyles, Madame de Sevigne would send a doll with the hair in the latest style like the hurlu-burlu to her beloved daughter in the hinterlands of Provence (where her son-in-law served Louis XIV? as governor.) To help her daughter stay au courrant. I heard there used to be French scholars called sevignistes, Who were dedicated to the study of Madame de S's letters. Could you do a series on Madame de Sevigne? So smart, virtuous, rich, industrious and funny. I always thought that she could be plopped down in our midst and prove how timeless human nature is. In her case, it's largely the good & refined side.
The portrayal of Queen Marie Antoinette in the inauguration show of the Olympic Games in Paris last week was gross and offensive. Western Europe takes pride in banning death penalty, but then some people applaud the image of an innocent woman decapitated more than 200 years ago. That queen had no power over the government budget or politics. She was confined to the court etiquette. She was accused of crimes and obscenities she didn't commit. But she had to be killed, in the name of extremism (revolution) to please a bunch of (male) assassins, many of whom had the same end (ironies of destiny).
Very well expressed, she was the victim of the Terror, the hatred of the revolutionaries, and the French Revolution that 4 years later winds up where it all started, an absolutist monarchy with Monsieur Napoleon!
The parallels between M Antionette and Czarina Alexandra are uncanny. Alexandra was always considered an outsider and never accepted by the Russian people, she was maligned and deliberately targeted with horrible rumors and pornographic cartoons. They and their families met the most gruesome fates when humanity is set aside in the name of progress and certain ideologies
If you’re getting rid of the monarchy, then they all have to go. Sure there may be biases against some more than others, but they’re part of the unjust system so they too must go
Ironically, Coppola’s film found its structure, and many of its most famous lines, from Lady Antonia Fraser’s magisterial 2001 biography of the tragic Queen. I’ve just discovered your channel-oh, happy day! Thank you from the United States. 🇫🇷🇦🇹🇺🇸
Marie Antoinette is just like Ann Boleyn , wrong place , wrong time in a world dominated by men , be it male heirs or revolution , timing was everything , in fact , it still is
Similar but not the same. Anne was very well educated and well read. She was highly influenced by powerful women at the Austrian and then the French court where she served. She had the audacity to demand to be Queen not just Heney's official mistress. Like Marie Antoinette, she was largely hated by the people. She was often booed and was called " the great whore". She exerted her influence with Henry and alienated her Uncle The Duke of Norfolk and crossed her early ally the powerful Thomas Cromwell who would orchestrate her downfall when Henry wanted rid if her. Like Marie Antoinette she was falsely accused of terrible things and unjustly executed.
During 10th grade world history class I was chosen to play Marie Antoinette during a staged trial. My teacher told me before I took the stand that there was no evidence Marie Antoinette actually said "let them eat cake". When the question came up I forgot this. I used as my defense that as queen I didn't even know where the palace kitchens were much less that the same ingredients that made bread made cake and that my comment wasn't out of malice but out of ignorance. I then asked the person questioning me if they knew how to make bread.
Your podcast on the French revolution was an absolute tour de force ! It is amazing how Marie Antoinette has been so unfairly vilified particularly with an incorrect quotation having been attributed to her. I look forward to the next series in autumn. PS - when are you returning for a live show to Ireland ?
Given Marie Antoinette’s appearance at the long-running saga that was the Olympic Opening Ceremony, I think we can consider your proposition that she stands (in the popular mind) for the Revolution well and truly proved! Ps read Citizens when doing a historiography on the Terror at A-Level, such a good book!
I've just stumbled upon this channel and have already watched five videos. Very impressed and hope this channel gains the much wider audience that it deserves.
I appreciate the normal episode names! I understand the algorithm game must be played, but this makes it infinitely easier to browser the backlog of videos.
I've never realized that Marie Antoinette was the queen of France for so long. She managed to make it 18 years which is very surprising to me because of the state of the court and the state of the nation.
John Hardman is an industrious scholar who seems to have made the mistake of identifying with his subject. He tries to make Marie a political player reaching out to Barneve --AFTER the flight to Varennes, when she had little or no political capital left. Barneve realized she was trying to play him and broke it off. Her judgement of others, when she deigned to exercise it, was deplorable. She put all her trust in the Idiot Ferson, who planned and executed the hapless failed escape. When it started, she was heard to say how much it would vex Lafayette, whom she hated. Long afterwards her daughter Marie Therese, the sole survivor of the family, and the woman Napoleon called "the only man among the Bourbons", said that had her parents trusted Lafayette more they might have survived the revolution.
(U.S. teacher, here). Thank you for mentioning where you are posting from. As both a former student, a lover of history and now a teacher in my own right..... I have often wondered what type of image Marie Antoinette held over the centuries in your country, of Austria. In other words is she still or was she ever a 'revered figure' to the Austrian people? Or .... did the Austrian people just not care about her one way or the other? The only thing that I knew about Austria after, MA's 'deletion' was that the people of Austria were extremely outraged, and very upset in the immediate aftermath of her death. However I never knew how much longer after that, that the feelings of anger and disgust, lasted. Can you elaborate? Thank You.
What she was supposed to have said was NOT cake as in a Gâteau, but a cake as in brioche, which was the hard crust on the outside that the poor would buy (like day old bread, which is usually half price or less) and soften it in their tea to make it edible. Nonetheless, she never said it.
our unfortunate queen was simply the victim of politic ; a graceful daughter of the great Empress inf Austria, generous, candid and good humored woman.
That sentence " Let them eat cake " was spread by Benjamin Franklin as a piece of fake news for the anglo public (on both sides of the ocean) as he was a big media influencer and he had intense personal grudges against that queen. The original event he elaborated upon was quite small : the queen believed in her own hand-laying powers to cure various illnesses like saints did as the tradition agreed upon : she now and them received sick pilgrims who came in the hope of a miracle. In one of the castles where she performed her land-laying, there happened to be a lack of bread to give to the pilgrims for their way back home due to the baker's neglect : she just decided that the surplus fancy buns (not cakes : Frenchmen in general did not like sweet pastries) from the day before's party would do the job. Not only that queen believed in hand-laying but she trusted Messmer, a scientific observer who believed in hand-laying and tried to justify it by a more rational approach than traditional catholicism, rather than Ben Franklin, who did not believe in vital energy but only electricity and magnetism.
Marie Antoinette would certainly have had someone read to her. Technically she never cracked open the book. The original audiobook, if you could afford it.
Lots about 'Poor Marie Antoinette' during this chat. Nothing about her obscene decadence, while thousands of peasants were dying of starvation. Countless children included.
Wonderful chaps. Initially concerned that with talk of cake and bourbons, cats and dolphins, TRIH had gone to the dogs. There's something poetic about £1-10 croissants and concern that the plebs are eating their burgers in brioche buns. The most horrifying future event I can imagine from this so far isn't The Terror, but the fact that with such "liberal" clothing, bowlers would be bowling underarm this very day!!
Keep in mind that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the remains of Tsar Nicolas and his beautiful family (the Romanovs) were found and interred in St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg. They were also sainted by the Russian Orthodox Church. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Bolshevists and Leftists throughout the world used the Romanovs as an example of decadance to pour out their vile and hatred upon. However, the screw has turned. Eventually the French Revolution may be seen in the light of the past as an ugly stain upon the West that brought forth much evil.
Do you mean La Comtesse of Noailles? (1.00.09). Weirdly enough, the word, despite all its vowels can be pronounced if you look at it this way: No-Ailles. You know how to pronounce NO (since the age of 2) as for -AILLES, think of AIL (the word for garlic, in french) and then put the 2 sounds together as smoothly as possible.. It works , it's feasible.
While trying to go beyond the stereotypes and vilification around Marie Antoinette and Louis, they seem to enjoy bashing and vilifying Harry and Megan Markel. An interesting study in critiquing others while doing the same yourself.
I appreciated the discussion of Louis xv’s sexual problem! That kind of discussion is always awkward but whenever I have heard it referred to I wondered what exactly the issue was. It was corrected by surgery, I heard, so in light of the state of 18th century medicine it must have been a relatively simple problem.
Though it takes place some years after the revolution, I love Marat/Sade (especially the brilliant RSC film production) as an elegant but brutal assessment of the historical moment.
something i saw on a historical food video was something that seemed surprising to me...on the table of the king and queen they probably had some coarse bread to show their support of the revolutionaries...so was there a period leading up to when the revolution was clearly their enemy that the royalty fancied themselves cheering for the revolution?? that seems insane...but then i suppose when if the upper class is detached from reality any strange fanciful fad might be embraced...?
One of the many things she's condemned for is her spending in her gardens, what they don't mention is that amount equals what a French aristocrat dropped playing card games in one night... They also never mention the starvation occurring at the time as grains crops failed, but how French peasants (those in the Revolution) refused ro eat the abundant root vegetables that * were * available, e.g. potatoes. Thry were literally starving rather than eat a potato. The King tried to make it fashionable and ate them rather often, but still, to the point of dying, the French refused.
Just in case someone should be interested and didn't know: "Mops" is actually the breed "Pug" in German 😂 Like a child naming her Teddy bear "Teddy" or those people who name their cat "Cat"
Poor Marie! If Louis had been more decisive in trying to quell the revolution at its start. And cut all that spending at Versailles! Good grief! But as an American we are indebted to France for their help in the revolution war against Britain. Sad that it would cost their kings head & queen. Viva la France! 🇫🇷
The french nobility led a tax-free life; that was the main reason for the giant uproar. The king pleaded the "nobles" in vain - they didn't want to pay; THEY more than the king deserved Mme la Guillotine.
Enjoying this latest podcast. However, I am ignorant as to how Versailles worked. Do I take it that the aristocracy lived there, in their own private apartments, and were forced to spend their days there?
She had austrian ancestry even from her paternal side and some of the dukes of Lothringen grew up in Austria, have been allies of the emporer. The claim that she was more french than previous queens is just misinformation, back then it was normal for the upper class on the continent to be fluent in french. If an american kid grows up learning chinese that does not make that kid ethnically chinese. The claim that the Habsburgs only married of daughters is also wrong, some of their most important diplomatics moves involved marryages between habsburg sons and foreign brides.
Watched the first video in the series, was a bit disappointed in both your attitudes towards MA about her lack of ability to read, looked into it briefly and noticed this woman probably had ADHD or something similar, obviously she was very intelligent but you both seemed quite disparaging and stuck up about it, I thought a little context could have helped here for your audience
Also, she’s the fucking queen in a monarchy which presided over obscene wealth during a time of extreme inequality and suffering all while she larped as a commoner
I'm breton, the revolution for us was a disaster and she's not hated by most people here even though people are very much leftists compared to France which is quite far right.
I’m in south China, in a city called Huizhou, drinking some Crozes-Hermitage and have just finished listening to your French Revolution series. I’m pretty speechless, what phenomenal drama you have unfolded, and with what clarity and style. Thanks guys. Vive The Rest Is History.
I’m also interested in Chinese history as I recently watched the Silk Road documentary.
Please do Lawrence of Arabia one day - I need to separate Peter O’Toole from the real man.
I studied at Oxford University and they will never tell the truth.
Good call
o'toole was well cast by Lean he captures the romantic/poetic nature of Lawrence very well. read Seven Pillars of Wisdom to know Lawrence
Totally enjoying this series on the French Revolution ... have already listened to all 8 episodes ... and now re-listening to each one of them to see what detail I might have missed ... this series is a triumph😍 Thank you so much🙏🏽
Hello everyone!
Just to let you know, the last Fall of the Sioux episodes will be out in the coming weeks.
We wanted to ensure that the French Revolutions episodes are released as video around the same time as the audio version.
All the best,
The Rest is History Team.
Thank god
Glad we’re back to regular uploads!
You guys rule
Found you through my deep dive into Custer last stand and now staying for the French revolution.
(QUESTION, from a U.S. teacher).
Dear Tom & Dom:
I have a historical question to ask about Marie Antoinette. At the time of her death, if I'm not mistaken her mother, Maria Thèrése, was already dead. I'm curious to know what was the reaction, back in Austria to the news of her death? Did anyone record what the sentiment was, back in her native country?
Thanks for considering my questions.
I grew up poor in the Southern United States but my mother had a thing for trying to show us what she could show us of culture. The local supermarket had a series called the great artists and they had a different one every month. I believe there was something like 24 of them and my mother bought them all. The one that always stuck with me was The Death of Marat by David. It's still bouncing around in my mind today and every time I see something about the French revolution it's one of the first images I conjure up.
God bless your mother. Madame Roland was part of the enlightenment that wanted to put and end to French feudalism, but she fell victim to the revolutionary terror. Before being decapitated, she looked into the horizon and said "Oh, liberty, so many crimes committed in your name".
What did they sell?
@@frankieamsden7918 what did who sell? The store she bought them from was our local Safeway. They sold groceries.
YT algorithm recommended you, listened 10 minutes, subscribed. Excellent show, looking forward to exploring your catalog!
Good to see another episode back on RUclips!
Frog is back on the menu, boys!
This didn’t get enough love yet. Well done.
@@markmacdonald7955 thanks, a little validation is always welcome.
I thought at least Dominic would give it a like.
Try it❤😊......
Tu ne saura pas déçu
A strange thing I heard was that at the time, Europe was going through a mini ice-age which was making it extremely difficult to grow the usual crops. Apparently the Thames was frozen solid so regularly that massive markets were regularly held on it. A new crop called 'potatoes' had been brought back from the new world and since it grew underground, was proving to be able to survive the extreme cold weather. The French wouldn't plant potatoes believing they were an inferior food, so whilst other countries survived the widespread crop failures by relying on the more hardy new-at-the-time potato, the French people were starving and getting closer and closer to uprising. Interesting.
Here's a doc about it : ruclips.net/video/VTW2Sczq2NA/видео.html
I can never think of Marie Antoinette or the French Revolution without thinking of her little boy. Or rather shrinking from that thought.
The lovely socialists. They did it to the Romanovs too
Stefan Zweig wrote a brilliant and scholarly historical novel about Marie Antionette that I highly recommend.
Re hairstyles, Madame de Sevigne would send a doll with the hair in the latest style like the hurlu-burlu to her beloved daughter in the hinterlands of Provence (where her son-in-law served Louis XIV? as governor.)
To help her daughter stay au courrant.
I heard there used to be French scholars called sevignistes, Who were dedicated to the study of Madame de S's letters.
Could you do a series on Madame de Sevigne? So smart, virtuous, rich, industrious and funny. I always thought that she could be plopped down in our midst and prove how timeless human nature is. In her case, it's largely the good & refined side.
The portrayal of Queen Marie Antoinette in the inauguration show of the Olympic Games in Paris last week was gross and offensive. Western Europe takes pride in banning death penalty, but then some people applaud the image of an innocent woman decapitated more than 200 years ago. That queen had no power over the government budget or politics. She was confined to the court etiquette. She was accused of crimes and obscenities she didn't commit. But she had to be killed, in the name of extremism (revolution) to please a bunch of (male) assassins, many of whom had the same end (ironies of destiny).
Nobody gives a merde.
It's not that deep.
male! 😮
Very well expressed, she was the victim of the Terror, the hatred of the revolutionaries, and the French Revolution that 4 years later winds up where it all started, an absolutist monarchy with Monsieur Napoleon!
Felixaliaga, totally agree!
The parallels between M Antionette and Czarina Alexandra are uncanny. Alexandra was always considered an outsider and never accepted by the Russian people, she was maligned and deliberately targeted with horrible rumors and pornographic cartoons. They and their families met the most gruesome fates when humanity is set aside in the name of progress and certain ideologies
If you’re getting rid of the monarchy, then they all have to go. Sure there may be biases against some more than others, but they’re part of the unjust system so they too must go
I’m loving every second of this conversation. It’s so fulfilling. Thank you gentlemen.
Ironically, Coppola’s film found its structure, and many of its most famous lines, from Lady Antonia Fraser’s magisterial 2001 biography of the tragic Queen.
I’ve just discovered your channel-oh, happy day! Thank you from the United States. 🇫🇷🇦🇹🇺🇸
Marie Antoinette is just like Ann Boleyn , wrong place , wrong time in a world dominated by men , be it male heirs or revolution , timing was everything , in fact , it still is
Perfectly on point. Bravo. 💐
Nope.
Similar but not the same. Anne was very well educated and well read. She was highly influenced by powerful women at the Austrian and then the French court where she served. She had the audacity to demand to be Queen not just Heney's official mistress. Like Marie Antoinette, she was largely hated by the people. She was often booed and was called " the great whore". She exerted her influence with Henry and alienated her Uncle The Duke of Norfolk and crossed her early ally the powerful Thomas Cromwell who would orchestrate her downfall when Henry wanted rid if her. Like Marie Antoinette she was falsely accused of terrible things and unjustly executed.
Nah
@@lesblakeman : toxic male 🚀 at it again !
During 10th grade world history class I was chosen to play Marie Antoinette during a staged trial. My teacher told me before I took the stand that there was no evidence Marie Antoinette actually said "let them eat cake". When the question came up I forgot this. I used as my defense that as queen I didn't even know where the palace kitchens were much less that the same ingredients that made bread made cake and that my comment wasn't out of malice but out of ignorance. I then asked the person questioning me if they knew how to make bread.
Your podcast on the French revolution was an absolute tour de force ! It is amazing how Marie Antoinette has been so unfairly vilified particularly with an incorrect quotation having been attributed to her. I look forward to the next series in autumn. PS - when are you returning for a live show to Ireland ?
Given Marie Antoinette’s appearance at the long-running saga that was the Olympic Opening Ceremony, I think we can consider your proposition that she stands (in the popular mind) for the Revolution well and truly proved! Ps read Citizens when doing a historiography on the Terror at A-Level, such a good book!
Obviously she represents the revolution in the popular😂
In what world does she not?
Yes!
As always, pure gold.
Thank you
I've just stumbled upon this channel and have already watched five videos. Very impressed and hope this channel gains the much wider audience that it deserves.
I love how Dominics got all his books facing forward😂
Very efficient…for sight seeing
Just like that of a bookstore, 😂😂.
Brilliant, as always!
Y’all this is just an amazing podcast! So well done!
Please put up the World War 1 series!
nice work gents - great commentary, plenty of facts, only educated postulation etc - you seem to make any history topic interesting and engaging
Wonderful analysis. Enjoying it immensely.
I appreciate the normal episode names! I understand the algorithm game must be played, but this makes it infinitely easier to browser the backlog of videos.
Omg, my mind lurched into seeing King Charles sniping cats from the balcony of Buck House. Thank you for that Pythonesque image😂
Mate, those wine bottles sitting in the sunshine through the window there... Best knock them off soon 🍷
I've never realized that Marie Antoinette was the queen of France for so long. She managed to make it 18 years which is very surprising to me because of the state of the court and the state of the nation.
Yes. You are right. However for some reason it still doesn't seem as though she lasted 18 years at all.
Let's go! Been watching lectures on Robbespierre recently, the boys are off to the tennis court!
John Hardman is an industrious scholar who seems to have made the mistake of identifying with his subject. He tries to make Marie a political player reaching out to Barneve --AFTER the flight to Varennes, when she had little or no political capital left. Barneve realized she was trying to play him and broke it off.
Her judgement of others, when she deigned to exercise it, was deplorable. She put all her trust in the Idiot Ferson, who planned and executed the hapless failed escape. When it started, she was heard to say how much it would vex Lafayette, whom she hated. Long afterwards her daughter Marie Therese, the sole survivor of the family, and the woman Napoleon called "the only man among the Bourbons", said that had her parents trusted Lafayette more they might have survived the revolution.
Source of Marie Therese quote about Lafayette and Marie Antoinette?
@@whately1 "Lafayette"
by Gonzague Saint Bris
FIRST AO EXCITED THATS ALL I HAVE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE!🎉
The parallels with Alexandra are crazy.
Great show. Thanks for the effort and charm you both bring to the history.
Very well done! Congratulations from Austria
(U.S. teacher, here).
Thank you for mentioning where you are posting from. As both a former student, a lover of history and now a teacher in my own right..... I have often wondered what type of image Marie Antoinette held over the centuries in your country, of Austria.
In other words is she still or was she ever a 'revered figure' to the Austrian people? Or .... did the Austrian people just not care about her one way or the other?
The only thing that I knew about Austria after, MA's 'deletion' was that the people of Austria were extremely outraged, and very upset in the immediate aftermath of her death. However I never knew how much longer after that, that the feelings of anger and disgust, lasted.
Can you elaborate? Thank You.
I listened to all episodes of the French revolution and cannot wait for the continuation!
Thank you! Very interesting!!!!!!
What she was supposed to have said was NOT cake as in a Gâteau, but a cake as in brioche, which was the hard crust on the outside that the poor would buy (like day old bread, which is usually half price or less) and soften it in their tea to make it edible.
Nonetheless, she never said it.
You obviously didn't listen to the podcast. They say this right at the beginning.
Great as usual, gentlemen.
our unfortunate queen was simply the victim of politic ; a graceful daughter of the great Empress inf Austria, generous, candid and good humored woman.
Brillant series, just finished the Parts ... so insightful and so well shared thank you !
Queen Marie and King Louis are now with our Lord Jesus Christ and the Ever Virgin Mary.
🙏✝️⚜️
Ever virgin ? Despite having other children ? Imbecility is infinite.
You guys are great - this is amazing! Her little house down the back of Versailles was awesome 👍👍
I'm reading war and peace at the moment. Very fitting topic for me. Thanks lads 👌
You get a sense of post revolution Napoleonic wars and the undertones of the impending Russian revolution.
Outstanding guys
That sentence " Let them eat cake " was spread by Benjamin Franklin as a piece of fake news for the anglo public (on both sides of the ocean) as he was a big media influencer and he had intense personal grudges against that queen. The original event he elaborated upon was quite small : the queen believed in her own hand-laying powers to cure various illnesses like saints did as the tradition agreed upon : she now and them received sick pilgrims who came in the hope of a miracle. In one of the castles where she performed her land-laying, there happened to be a lack of bread to give to the pilgrims for their way back home due to the baker's neglect : she just decided that the surplus fancy buns (not cakes : Frenchmen in general did not like sweet pastries) from the day before's party would do the job. Not only that queen believed in hand-laying but she trusted Messmer, a scientific observer who believed in hand-laying and tried to justify it by a more rational approach than traditional catholicism, rather than Ben Franklin, who did not believe in vital energy but only electricity and magnetism.
Marie Antoinette would certainly have had someone read to her. Technically she never cracked open the book. The original audiobook, if you could afford it.
Thanks!
I'd love to hear Tom's comments on the Drag Queen Last Supper!
Not again this crap. Move on
Lots about 'Poor Marie Antoinette' during this chat. Nothing about her obscene decadence, while thousands of peasants were dying of starvation. Countless children included.
Wonderful chaps.
Initially concerned that with talk of cake and bourbons, cats and dolphins, TRIH had gone to the dogs.
There's something poetic about £1-10 croissants and concern that the plebs are eating their burgers in brioche buns.
The most horrifying future event I can imagine from this so far isn't The Terror, but the fact that with such "liberal" clothing, bowlers would be bowling underarm this very day!!
i love this channel
Keep in mind that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the remains of Tsar Nicolas and his beautiful family (the Romanovs) were found and interred in St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg. They were also sainted by the Russian Orthodox Church. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Bolshevists and Leftists throughout the world used the Romanovs as an example of decadance to pour out their vile and hatred upon. However, the screw has turned. Eventually the French Revolution may be seen in the light of the past as an ugly stain upon the West that brought forth much evil.
U 2 are brilliant. Education while working .. ✊👍👍👍❤️ SO GOOD
Do you mean La Comtesse of Noailles? (1.00.09).
Weirdly enough, the word, despite all its vowels can be pronounced if you look at it this way: No-Ailles. You know how to pronounce NO (since the age of 2) as for -AILLES, think of AIL (the word for garlic, in french) and then put the 2 sounds together as smoothly as possible.. It works , it's feasible.
Do you speak in this series about La Vendée, the first modern genocide? I just discovered your channel. Congratulations.
Once again glad i was born when i was
Appeals to the darker emotions of selfish pride, spiteful envy, and vengeful wrath make revolution possible.
What is the book or notes being referenced here by the podcast ?
So far a lot of bla bla and assumptions
Louis XVI a classic introvert
Vive le RIH! Almost invariably outstanding, but this 8 part series is SUPERB (have already listened to it on Spotify).
Thank You 🙏 so much for this
While trying to go beyond the stereotypes and vilification around Marie Antoinette and Louis, they seem to enjoy bashing and vilifying Harry and Megan Markel. An interesting study in critiquing others while doing the same yourself.
I appreciated the discussion of Louis xv’s sexual problem! That kind of discussion is always awkward but whenever I have heard it referred to I wondered what exactly the issue was. It was corrected by surgery, I heard, so in light of the state of 18th century medicine it must have been a relatively simple problem.
Sounds like she needed a real "mother" figure who she trusted and would advise her well.
Though it takes place some years after the revolution, I love Marat/Sade (especially the brilliant RSC film production) as an elegant but brutal assessment of the historical moment.
Check out the book Marie Antoinette's Watch - fascinating.
Thank you : )
sunlight is bad for wine.
I heard the locksmith had trouble finding the hole.
something i saw on a historical food video was something that seemed surprising to me...on the table of the king and queen they probably had some coarse bread to show their support of the revolutionaries...so was there a period leading up to when the revolution was clearly their enemy that the royalty fancied themselves cheering for the revolution?? that seems insane...but then i suppose when if the upper class is detached from reality any strange fanciful fad might be embraced...?
Could you do a topic of the pirates of the Mediterranean?
And a series on Charles Dickens. There must be enough there for ten episodes !
Yeah just watched Mean Girls again last night
these two men look absolutely nothing like what i imagined
Perhaps the books were read to her? See movie: Farewell, My Queen
One of the many things she's condemned for is her spending in her gardens, what they don't mention is that amount equals what a French aristocrat dropped playing card games in one night... They also never mention the starvation occurring at the time as grains crops failed, but how French peasants (those in the Revolution) refused ro eat the abundant root vegetables that * were * available, e.g. potatoes. Thry were literally starving rather than eat a potato. The King tried to make it fashionable and ate them rather often, but still, to the point of dying, the French refused.
Let them eat French fries.
Potatoe plants are poisonous 🙊🥱🤢🤮
The French have got some nerve calling anyone else promiscuous!
Prince Harry of Versailles? Come on.
Calm down
Thank you for uploading this! Can you tell me if the RIH subscription club is purely audio or is it video like this? Thank you!
It's only audio currently.
@@restishistorypod thank you.
Burke is well worth reading.
"Cats are rubbish" is my new catche phrase!
Just in case someone should be interested and didn't know: "Mops" is actually the breed "Pug" in German 😂
Like a child naming her Teddy bear "Teddy" or those people who name their cat "Cat"
I am devastated to learn this. I really thought Antonia Fraser did her research properly. Starting to doubt all her historical books now😢
Is that the same as "mopshond" in Dutch?
Where is this french revolution videos? And i did i miss it! Damn you youtube algorythym and all these cat videos.
Poor Marie! If Louis had been more decisive in trying to quell the revolution at its start. And cut all that spending at Versailles! Good grief! But as an American we are indebted to France for their help in the revolution war against Britain. Sad that it would cost their kings head & queen. Viva la France! 🇫🇷
Tricolore & a royalist. Makes no sense.
The french nobility led a tax-free life; that was the main reason for the giant uproar. The king pleaded the "nobles" in vain - they didn't want to pay; THEY more than the king deserved Mme la Guillotine.
I can never quote cake again
Are they recapping the show?
And what happened to her poor children, absolutely horrific and cruel
And what happened to the poor regular people and their children, absolutely horrific and cruel
Enjoying this latest podcast. However, I am ignorant as to how Versailles worked. Do I take it that the aristocracy lived there, in their own private apartments, and were forced to spend their days there?
In my simple American mind, only once british voice is allowed to say "And on the bombshell" IYKYK
“…in the Worrrllddd!”
The French Revolution we're all waiting for involves Marine le Pen.
She was Austrian.
Crikey ! She didn't look it !
No shit? They only mentioned it like fifty times.
Shrimp 🍤 on the BarB
She had austrian ancestry even from her paternal side and some of the dukes of Lothringen grew up in Austria, have been allies of the emporer. The claim that she was more french than previous queens is just misinformation, back then it was normal for the upper class on the continent to be fluent in french. If an american kid grows up learning chinese that does not make that kid ethnically chinese. The claim that the Habsburgs only married of daughters is also wrong, some of their most important diplomatics moves involved marryages between habsburg sons and foreign brides.
Watched the first video in the series, was a bit disappointed in both your attitudes towards MA about her lack of ability to read, looked into it briefly and noticed this woman probably had ADHD or something similar, obviously she was very intelligent but you both seemed quite disparaging and stuck up about it, I thought a little context could have helped here for your audience
Let them eat brioche
Because she is Austrian. A foreigner.
Also, she’s the fucking queen in a monarchy which presided over obscene wealth during a time of extreme inequality and suffering all while she larped as a commoner
I'm breton, the revolution for us was a disaster and she's not hated by most people here even though people are very much leftists compared to France which is quite far right.
Peut-être parcque les bretons sont des catho archaïques.
that's an interesting insight. thanks.
They did have intimate relationships with her Swedish officer it s now proven in her recent discovered letters.
Didn't Marie Antoinette invent pickled shallots?
I thought I read that somewhere in the past.
Or was it all just a dream....?
Never eat pickled shallots before going to bed, it's sure to give you a dose of the nocturnal sapristi nadgers !
@@LooseThereminwhat's a sapristi nadger?