How far was the French Revolution a product of the Enlightenment? | Dr Robert Priest

In this video Dr Robert Priest, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London, explores the role of the Enlightenment in sparking the French Revolution.

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Super channel.

[@abbyv9079]

Very interesting! Thank you so much! Great video:)

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Glad you enjoyed it!

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Quite good

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Thougt provoking indeed

[@idicula1979]

To study history into study the great upheaval and revolution of Europe from the Medieval era to the Enlightenment philosophies which gave rise to America.

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So no Jesus Christ? How's that working out.

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Lmao very well, as ever

[@sanjosemike3137]

@@barmybarmecide5390 Of course, French peasants lived in poverty while their "Government" engaged in useless, unnecessary wars. (Sounds familiar), constantly raising taxes. Most atheists "confuse" organized religion with just another power structure that stole from the poor, which of course it did. But that has nothing to do with individual faith and everything to do with taking part in an existing hierarchy.
Most of the time, "revolutions" start consuming those who started it, and the French Revolution was well known for this. Then it also consumes truly innocent people, and the French Revolution did a lot of that too, by the tens of thousands. One wonders what 16-year-old children thought as they approached the Guillotine? There were a number of those too.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

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There is nothing enlightened about the French!