The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29
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- In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of Terror? All of this and more contributed to the French Revolution not being quite as revolutionary as it could have been. France endured multiple constitutions, the heads of heads of state literally rolled, and then they ended up with a megalomaniacal little emperor by the name of Napoleon. But how did all of this change the world, and how did it lead to other, more successful revolutions around the world? Watch this video and find out. Spoiler alert: Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake." Sorry.
Chapters:
Introduction: The French Revolution 00:00
The French Declare Bankruptcy 0:41
Ancien Régime, Estates General, and the National Assembly 2:05
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen 3:16
Louis XVI, Marie Antionette, and the Women's March 4:00
The Jacobins 4:43
Austria and Prussia Intervene 5:35
An Open Letter to the Guillotine 6:48
Guillotines Galore 7:35
Napoleon Bonaparte 8:23
How Revolutionary was the French Revolution? 9:44
Credits 11:22
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I just realized that this John Green is the same John Green who wrote 'The Fault in Our Stars'. My life is a lie.
2:15 No No No! The first estate was the *Clergy* not the nobles! First Estate Clergy, Second Nobles, Third everyone else (Peasants, Bourgeoisie).
Please up vote this comment so people see!
I just saw that they have an annotation there (after I turned them on) but many people have annotations off.Please still up vote so people see.
This should be the first line the in description because it is an error!
this video is very help full not only for higher class but also for 9class because some students get bored from book I am also like that type
Never believe in what you get 100% (especially on Internet) errors, fake and propaganda everywhere.
Anyone else watching this for school during quarantine?
Mr. Wentzel's class?
Yup
Chicilo
Yeadh
Me too
“So Robespierre, how many people are you gonna execute?”
Robespierre: “Yes”
"the people with the money never paid taxes" hmmm where have I heard this before
It's actually not true as the 3rd Estate was not all poor men. Nor were most of the clergy rich.
It's almost like most tax systems are created by the people with money.
Everywhere that’s where you herd it
Solution: Let Antifa take charge
@@forrestspradlin8015 Dude wth
I'm French, and I've spent the last 21 years of my 21 year-long life trying to understand and learn all the regimes that went from 1789 until today and it is absolutely impossible
Marie "I never actually said let them eat cake" Antoinette
Reese Kesler imagine “I never actually said let them eat cake” as her epitaph 😂
Who has an exam tomorrow?
AP exam tomorrow time to watch crash courses till I crash this course
Dude same good luck
+Lailla Ahmady you and me both sister
+Lailla Ahmady lol me too
I have one too. fantastic.
***** okay mom.
The cake was a lie
-MARIE ANTOINETTE
U l y it is still a lie
It was "cROIsSANT"
@@giacoco2726 Brioche actually 😎
Well she kinda escaped by a portal in her room
Thats why in minecraft when you make a cake you get the achievement "The Lie" lol :)
Who’s here 2019 for a test you haven’t studied for
Edit: Omg this comment blew up, ily guys keep up the grind for 2020 ✊🏻
Edit 2: Ok so it turns out 2020 is the end of the world basically
meeeeeee
Me
moi même
What do you mean? This is my “studying”
ya yeet
"You did not take the dying out of execution" killed me. Uh, no pun intended.
I used to watch these in my AP classes. I'm not in these classes anymore, but I still love these videos. Especially now that I can learn about whatever I want.
My AP class watched a couple of these, and now I've watched every video twice, and whenever my teacher puts on a video in which the Mongols are mentioned, and I end up reciting the whole, "Except, wait for it...the Mongols" thing. XD
4:05 the creeper in the background... :)
Ah man
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Lol
"which they did, because everyone is afraid of armed peasant women" 😂😂😂
LOL
Can't help but correct: the first estate was the clergy, the second estate was the nobilty*
Not correct.
First estate was the clergy. Second the nobles. Look it up
@Landen Gilliard I was correcting the other person
yes you are correct. we are learning this in history rn
Yeah its true but in my opinion nobility sounded more like 1st estate
The first estate was actually the clergy the second estate was the nobility and the third estate was the bourgeoisie and the peasants
WERE the peasants actually involved in the 3rd Estate? I was under the impression that it was similarly bound to property / wealth as the british system (or the US stumbling stone of the electoral college as a filter between the popular opinion and actual political power, although that one was more by accident than by intrinsic design as only a wealthy man could afford to stay away from home and go to the election for months without losing all livelyhood in the meantime, theoretically an organized mob of the poorer citizens could have thrown their money together and paid someone to become their elector and go on that voyage)
Urs F most of the third estate in the estates general were made up of rich merchants and even some nobles from the second estate just representing actual members of the third estate
3. Clergy 2. Nobility 1. Tiers-Etat. Then all others (rich peasants are called bourgeois )
From France history student, Noble comme first because the king was part of, then comme the clergy ( they were often little brothers of noble family) and then the Tiers État was all the society doesn't matter what you are working on. The bourgeoisie is born during the revolution but really exist during the Directoire ( 1795-1799) and under Napoleon
+ Brévenn L'unique, clergy has always been first, ever since the setting up of feudal system. Oratores (religious people), bellatores (Warriors) and laboratores (those who work).
+ Shex ! Bourgeoisie is basically those who live in town (frome the french bourg = city), like merchants, bakers, butchers ...etc. it didn't matter their wealth, peasants were peasants, no matter if they were rich or poor. XIXth century brought up the idea that bourgeois were rich people, it had not been like this during the Revolution.
My world history teacher shows us your videos in class. You're awesome Crash Course!
The Random Vlogger How is formal world history education compared to crash course? Which one gives deeper insight?
Thindorama Well, a typical class (at least in the U.S) is about an hour. So, the teacher could use this video as a quick 10 minute summary, and then divulge the complexities and details later in the class.
blownspeakersss From the limited experience of formal schooling I've had, it's very poor in nature as the topics are taught very slowly and in low density, your thought?
The Random Vlogger yeah my teacher showed me the video too! Loved it :D
Valls Degage Not really... it is actually really good and says the important things that are most important to retain
The whole semester in just 11 mins
😂😂😂😂😂
Who is Jean Paul Marat?
@@alvyhernandez1931 A newspaper writer who supported radical and revolutionary ideas, and even encouraged the mass killings Robespierre soon caused.
Fun fact: he had a skin condition which kept him in a bathtub.
You speak very quickly man !
slow down the video speed. left-click on the gear next to the captions near the exit full screen/full screen and you will see a speed tab on the third row. left-click on that, select desired speed, and continue.
Caille Matthews i am on Mobile lol
@@bobtheagent9087 an old version?
Caille Matthews nvm I got it
I watch him on 1.25x gets my brain working nicely
Actually, Guillotine was against the death penalty, but, being unable to get rid of it, tried to make it more humane. He also tried to change the guillotine's name and his own names many times to disassociate himself from it.
Fun fact : It is often said on the internet that frenchs wave the white flag before every battle. And yet, under dire circumstances, facing multiple nations in war, they manage to win every one of them while changing the world. I say, props to them !
France has been the most succeful nation in military history for the past 1000 years.. Yes they lost to germany in ww2, but so did everyone else( exept country surrounded by water).. Only the russian winter defeated hitler...france lost 3million men in ww1 but still defeated the germans.. France has been the mightiest country in europe for centurys..
France was 5 times a superpower and never was out of the top 5 richest countries on earth since Clovis according to 2 studies estimating the GDP during each century.
Perhaps their waving of the White Flag is due to the banner of the Monarchy was a white flag covered in fleurs de lis :P
Great Britain became a superpower after Napoleon was outta theee
have you got a source for the studies?
You could make a religion ou...
no dont
Like the cult of reason?
LMAO
@@MisterTipp its a nod.
No.
In my opinion, the most insane part of the French Revolution was the war in the Vendée. In a matter of just less than a year over 100,000 (or more, depending on who you ask) people were killed in a geographic region of about 800,000 people. Those numbers are just absolutely bonkers, especially in that age.
My history teacher taught us that the 2nd estate are the nobles and the 1st estate are the clergy
he made a note saying this is a mistake and 1st is clergy and 2nd is nobles
+TL-Ace ... and he/she was correct!
Same. A little confused about that
+TL-Ace thats true.
jamie o'leary Oh thanks, didn't even see it!
'you want to keep a treaty with a king whose head is now in a basket. would you like to take it out and ask it? "should we honour our treaty, king louis' head?" "uh, do whatever you want- i'm super dead!'
HAMILTON IS THE BEST!!!
+Samara Duffie tu m'as tué! x'D
I love how the first comment I see on this video is a Hamilton reference.
***** did you expect anything else?
winning is easy, governing is harder
Watch it in 0.75 x speed to understand
Have you listened to Hope of Morning by Icon for Hire? Just go. Do it. Then listen to Ariel's cover of All I Do is Win. Then come back and tell us it's better sped up.
I wish there was a .85.
X Fire Phoenix X lol
Thank you so much, John Green! I got an A+ in my History exam and this video helped me a lot!
Congratulations
But nobody 🅵🆄🅲🅺🅸🅽🅶 cares
Iván Chudyk He was typing to John Green. If you didn’t care than you didn’t need to read it. Why do people like you have to be so rude?
Who is Jean Paul Marat?
It just occured to me that CC History has covered every notable European nation...
Except Poland...
Poland cannot into CC History.
+Spearka There's a WWII video...
+Ivan Chen but poland can in to space!!
Neotokyo6 Polen can into being Anschluss.
+Spearka
Well... There's always WWII...
Great video again guys! Loving the whole Crash Course series so far!
Just one minor inaccuracy on the guillotine: Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine, he only campaigned for the method of execution to be standardised to beheading, unlike previously when social status decided how you were legally murdered. When the law passed and lawmakers eventually got around to deciding how this was to be done, the executioner of Paris (Charles-Henri Sanson) informed them that there was no way he could execute the number of condemned at the rate they were sentencing them. It was then decided to design a machine for this purpose and this task was given to a committee headed by Doctor Antoine Louis from the Royal Academy of Surgery. Taking inspiration from the Halifax Gibbet of northern England, the Scottish Maiden of Scotland and the Mannaia of Italy, they drew up a design which he sent to a German harpsichord-maker residing in Paris named Tobias Schmidt who then modified it further before beginning production. So credit should really go jointly to Louis and Schmidt for the guillotine's invention. The machine was also variously called the "Louison" or "Louisette" in its early days but, for some reason, Guillotin's name just stuck.
Sources:
Delarue, Jacques, Le métier de bourreau, 1979, Fayard
Kershaw, Alister, A History of the Guillotine, 1965, Tandem
I love learning about the parts of history where everything and everyone just went totally apeshit
I’m here from les miserables and I’m EXTREMELY SAD and I want to learn more about the French Revolution
The Assasin of Gachaverse fellow les mis stannie and les mis is NOT about the 1789 French Revolution, it’s about the 1832 June rebellion
This just makes me want to play as France in Empire Total War.
Haha great game
FaceUnreality Napoleon Total War is better ^^
No actually empire total war is better because it has 3 continents and has better starting positions
kassam abu tarboush Napoleon Total War has Napoleon which is the reason most people like to play as france and his army is better looking.
kassam abu tarboush Just try EU4 and you will forget about TW.
My history teacher showed this in class today and he said "This guy needs to calm down" and turned it off halfway in. I was so angry.. I love this channell and John Greene
That is too bad. He should have previewed it before showing it rather than turning it off. We watch as much John Green as we can in our home school.
Last year I introduced Crash Course to my history teacher, and this year she is showing all of her classes, American History, Canadian History, European History, Geography, etc. a crap ton of Crash Course!
Most history teachers are boring and never add excitement to lectures. Then they wonder why high school students avoid it or drop out .
I tried to get this into my social studies class, but nobody liked it (I don't understand) and some of my classmates said they got a headache from the fast talking (????). It made me sad. I really like this show.
HE SAID THAT THERE ARE 3 ESTATE 1 KING IT IS WRONG
Watching this one night before my test. Thanks john green, you gave me laughs throughout my childhood, basically taught me what emotions were with our books, and are basically saving me and making sure I get into college.
We’re doing this right now in class, and I love it! This is like a violent anime that never ends and keeps introducing new characters!
Awesome,I understood the whole french revolution in just 12 minutes.
Thanks to John Green and his whole team for making it so easy
I have an exam on this in two days this basically procrastinating
+Lucy Pollock You're doing research.
+Lucy Pollock Naw I wait till the night before
me too
Lucy Pollock lol
6:56 when u have the AP World test tomorrow and arent ready
I'm so screwed.............
Oh my gosh yes sameee
same.
About to get a 1 lmao
We survived boys, best of luck to you all!
U heard of dance dance revoultion now get ready for
*FRANCE FRANCE REVOLUTION*
I died XD
GENIUS
😂😂
You have no idea how much you have helped me (a French major who has been learning French since Kindergarten but couldn't make sense of the context needed to understand 30+ 18th-19th century French texts that I have to master for a midterm 4 days from now). All I can say is thank you.
There was a _creeper_ in the Thought Bubble at 4:03.
+N.A.T.O Allience no it is a regular creeper
It's a pun, being a Minecraft creeper, and just plain old creeper the plant.
I never comment on these things but I have to say *this is the BEST french revolution crash course video.* I have watched 4 so far, and none have been as clear as this one. It fills all the gaps and answers all the questions the other videos left me wondering.
now I can watch audrey hepburns war and peace with some clue c:
I always like John's lessons !
The conditions which caused the French Revolution are nearly identical to the conditions we're experiencing today. The trigger will be when food and utility prices begin to represent the majority of most peoples budget.
no... just no.
You're wrong, no need to even point out why, you're just wrong.
Chris Nicklas I demand proof from you.
The fact that the vast majority of first world countries to which utilities apply too lack monarchs in control of food distribution and taxes. Most countries with monarchs still have governments. France lacked this at the point of the revolution, well the start of it. Simply off that the conditions are different.
Vast majorities of the population will never be allowed to go starving, governments don't want people to die no matter what. They all have stores of food and other products ready to flood the market to drive prices down any time they get too high.
Chris Nicklas Let me bring up some of the similarities you're overlooking. Firstly, you had two distinct classes of people. The very many poor, and the very few super wealthy. You had the wealthy not paying their taxes, but poor being expected to pay their share. More importantly you had inept leadership. Who showed little concern for most people, and were more concerned with themselves and the elites of the day. People may unlikely to starve in Western countries, but they might not be able to keep a roof above their head. If there is runaway inflation.
AP is tomorrow. Don't know anything. Still don't know anything. Pray for me please
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Same here
How was ur test?
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This is why i love history
who else is here because they are struggling on an assignment and that makes no sense 🙋🏽♀️
"Thank you France we will pay you back in ww 1 and ww2"
CAME IN A LITTLE BIT LATE DON'T YOU THINK
Stralia Mate ha ha
Owed long and owed BIG :D
The French army durring the first world war are really powerfull.
did this guy realy belive France need US in WW1 ? damn americans suck at history :v
There was no US Army in WW1, like literally. Lack of resources and poor equipment in comparison with the other European powers. Many Americans joined this war fighting in the English army, because they had better equipment.
Love these! My students also enjoy, but with this one I do point out that US Bill of Rights left out not only slaves, but also women and Native Americans.
This helped me for my french presentation, thanks!
This is probably the most useful show in the world
Thumbs up if you're watching this because of AC Unity
I have a History test tomorrow about the French Revolution and this video was really worth it. Great job!
I would love to see a history crash course on the Irish Rebellions of 1798 and 1916, as well as the Irish War of Independence of 1922
this helped me pass my final. thank you john green
You should re-make this video. Drink two bottles of fine French red wine and do a Drunk History version of it.
You sir are correct.
My history exam is in 3 days and i'm binge watching every French, Scientific & Industrial Revolution video on TH-cam :/
It is important to learn history, lest you repeat it.
xD gg
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois Good one. Did you think of it yourself?
SAME MINE IS TOMORROW
Just read those chapters, or books you should learn how to binge read because obviously no.
Thank you for this John Green!! It is so easy to learn from you!
Thanks for captions,very helpful ♥️
5 years pass, and these history videos are still some of the best on the internet. Love ‘em!
Came here to learn what I'll encounter in Assassins Creed Unity, great video!
Tragic that it takes a historically inaccurate video-game to get humans reading history.
Lenzy Williams Lol already knew about it, just needed a little refresh.. Turns out the game also kinda sucks haha
Lenzy Williams In what way is it inaccurate then?
whenever my teacher plays one of these videos I just perk up and listen. I find it hard to keep the information, but it somehow sticks to my brain sometimes. I love it!
WOW. I came here to learn about the French Revolution b/c I'm considering writing a historical-fiction novel taking place in this time period. Watched the whole video -- which was EXCELLENTLY done, btw -- and then saw the comment about this being the author of The Fault in Our Stars... which is one of my favorite novels. Weird, wild stuff.
Anyway, big thank you to John for your wonderful novels as well as unknowingly helping me with mine!
A few corrections. Firstly, the First Estate was the clergy, whilst the Second Estate comprised the nobles. This corresponded with the idea that the Crown came from above. Secondly, the Nobles and the Church paid taxes, although the distribution of the taxes was highly regressive. Thirdly, it’s fairly unreasonable and execessively simplistic to describe the French Revolution as “terrible”. The Revolution helped to abolish feudalism and ancient privilege, and ultimately led to a more meritocratic system of civil and military appointments. It also laid enlightenment ideals that subsequent (autocratic) regimes would retain and expand. For example, Louis XVIII was restored on the condition that he adopt a Constitution of sorts. When his successor, Charles X, threatened the Charter, he was overthrown and replaced by Louis Phillipe who publicly supported the Charter.
I agree although the clergy did not have to pay taxes as they were guaranteed rights and privileges by the laws and customs of the kingdom which guaranteed exemption from taxes
omg...
They also beheaded 40,000 ppl in like a year lol
No it was terrible! Simple as that
It was horrible, it killed the idea of church and God and people became hedonistic, look at the demographics.
Gotta get that last minute AP euro studying in
Same...
+Sarah McCreery My final is tomorrow. Gotta double-study. Which I am currently failing at.
+Isha Raj-Silverman everyone's final is on Friday
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Yeah my test is tomorrow for Euro
This is actually a really good studying tool
gave me a lot of info on the revolution and would love to see another french revolution video
Right, right, right...
But tell us more about the assassins and templars.
The British don't even call the 'American revolution' by that name. We call it the American War of Independence, which is what it was. Unlike the Russian, French, German, Austrian, Chinese revolutions, America did not overthrow a King or a political system, they just separated from it.
Same in France, we call the American revolution "La guerre d'indépendance".
Well I am happy to see that everyone agree with. The americans must really have a high ego.
Well, I don't know how much you guys know so much about the American Revolution, but we did overthrow and change a system. For a lot time, we were left alone, then suddenly they starting bring troops and to force us to pay higher taxes, etc... you guys should know this, but the reason why we call it the revolutionary war is for the fact, George Washington, by winning the war, he was king at the time... He was the president, and the only one. He had all the power, he could of done whatever he wanted to do, since most of our documents that make us "American" were not active, for lack of a better word, yet. So he had all of the 13 colonies, he had a country, but he gave that all up... He let his power go and established the way that our Presidency works. So, how many kings of that time, was just like, "Yeah, I give you all my land and power."? That is one of the bigger reasons why.
Michael Lafleur Meh, if that was just that, we have other exemples through history, and we don't call them "Revolution".
When De Gaulle took power in France after WW2, despite the fact that the americans were scared he would become a new dictator, and he invented a constitution (Who is the current one today) nobody called that a Revolution. It is not like the American Republic was even the first republic ever... The idea of a system controlled by white rich citizens was already in motion into old Greece.
Michael Lafleur Taxes that were, btw, lower than in mainland Britain... but let's not get into that.
Where in France (and so on) the ruling classes were ousted from power, executed or exiled. The entire political situation of France and it's empire changed. In America the rebels formed a new state, but the ruling classes remained the same and Britain and the empire continued to be ruled by it's aristocracy.
You should that we don't call the English Civil War, the English Revolution. The King was executed, the royal family was exiled. But the political system remained the same. The ruling classes remained the same. And though it better qualifies as a revolution, than the American revolution - it still wasn't one.
Helps with my midterm on French Revolution! Thank you!!!
Learning about history is my hobby now
Thanks alot John Green
These videos have saved me so many times...
All kidding aside, this one video helped me understand more in 12 minutes than a month of class! :)
4:05 nice creeper!
only here for nostalgia...once upon a time i was here cramming for an AP Euro test.
Okay, I just watched this with Dutch subtitles, and Don't Forget to be Awesome was translated as:
Vergeet niet, metaal bal, ik kan u horen. That means: Don't forget, metal ball, I can hear you. Wtf? :')
I used both Crash Course and Assasin's Creed as my only study tools, got 100 percent in my exams
Genetic memory brah. It's a thing.
Gold
You rock.
You are my hero.
Assassins Creed changes a lot of shit to format the storyline they want to tell. I wouldn't rely on it.
Hey!
Crash Course was one of my main study materials for the National History Bee and it really helped to prepare for the competition! Yesterday, I made it past the pre-eliminary rounds and was supposed to compete in the playoffs today. However, they changed my(and dozens of other kids) scores, which changed my testing location and caused me to be late. I was unable to compete in the playoffs and the hotel it currently in chaos. But, thank you Crash Course for helping me because who knows, maybe I could have won. We'll never know....:)
My high school History teacher used to show us these videos covering different events in history. Very nostalgic and strange (in a good way) to return to these videos for my college History course.
This is less than twelve minutes long and I learned more about the French Revolution here than I did in high school. That's what an LAUSD education will get you.
Thanks for helping me with understanding the French Revolution and my report on it!
Wow great Info!! Really clears things up! Thank you!!
it's currently. 12:27 am. and i have a test. covering every period thus far discussed in ap world history. john green, you are truly my only hope; if you can't help me, i don't think anyone can at this point.
I love the Portal reference
What did he say?
Remel Sosa One of the pictures had a slide of Marie Antoinette saying "the cake was a lie"
Ohh thanks brah!
Remel Sosa Why did you have to be clueless BRAH?
"that's a long way from Thomas Jefferson" but Jefferson himself worked on the declaration on rights of man and citizen with the marquis de lafayette
im pretty sure lafayette consulted with jefferson but he wasnt a formal author?
and Lafayette fled the Country like two years later before he was executed for being a noble.
Excellent Crash Course, cheers for making it. Going through Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution at the moment and this video served as a great primer, thank you!
From watching the previous episode to this one I've been hearing hamilton and les miserables in my head
-Do animals deserve rights?
-If they do, do they deserve more, less, or the same rights as humans?
-Should we continue to consider ourselves non-animals when we are an animal species?
-Do I need to post pointless philosophical questions on TH-cam?
-Are these questions pointless?
-Do you care?
-Should you care?
-Is philosophy a wast of time?
-Why am I still posting questions?
-Why are you still reading this?
- Yes.
- I would say less, but it's up to more competent People to decide.
- This depends on what aspect of life you're looking at.
- Maybe. I can't read your mind.
- Not at all.
- Only a bit.
- I guess I should.
- Certainly not. Psychology is a waste of time...
- No f****** idea.
- Because I finish what I start.
D.) All of the above.
no to all obv
Ekam Brar You are against animal rights? Wow, just wow.
why give animal rights? they have the right to be pets? ..give rights to animal and you destroy the whole meat business
maybe after john mentioned austria a few times people will finally stop confusing it with australia
*amenricans, not man. americans.
Przemysław Bogdan lol get your grammar right (no offense)
Niki throw another shrimp on the barby Austria!
Niki thats how i would be i would be confused between Austria and Austrlia
Dwarf King
That was very helpful and interesting.Thank you
The events look chaotic, because we see them form the end, from the outcome. The people who lived through them had no masterplan for the whole process, they acted and reacted step by step.
All you really need to know: French Revolution was to CAUSE change from a feudal-aristocracy to a free republic; whereas the American Revolution was to PREVENT change from a nation of small landowners into a feudal state. The Churches were the leading advocate of liberty within the American Revolution; whilst the churches tended to a oppressor of freedom throughout Europe during the French Revolution.
The South was in a way very similar to pre revolutionary france. And what about the genocide of native americans. The American Revolution in terms of ideals was worthless, the french revolution was a failure but intellectually it was ground breaking in my opinion.
To claim that the Church was the oppressor is an over simplification. Most clergymen at the time were countryside priests living very modestly and were well respected by the local population. And since there were very few schools, they were in charge of education. So they also performed a crucial social function.
At the Estates General, some prominent clergymen, like Sieyes, chose to represent the Third Estate instead of their own class. In fact, it was Sieyes who guided the Third Estate through the process of setting up the National Assembly.
Also it is thought that 1/3 to half of the clergy delegation there were dissidents. That's not trivial. About a fifth of the nobility were also rebels and ready to side with the people. And they did exactly that. Look at all the leading figures of the revolution: Robespierre, Danton, the Comte de Mirabeau, the Duke of Orleans, Talleyrand, Marquis de Condorcet, Desmoulins, Lafayette, Sieyes, Saint Just etc... All noblemen, clergymen, lawyers or military officers.
I would much prefer a feudal aristocracy, actually.
Elboy75 "The South was in a way very similar to pre revolutionary france." How so? Because it had slavery? (That *one* way makes for a rather simplistic, thoroughly unremarkable, comparison.)
"And what about the genocide of native americans." What about it? Assuming it's a fair characterization, how is it relevant? (If you can't understand why anyone would think it wasn't, you're not actually talking about ideals.)
"The American Revolution in terms of ideals was worthless, the french revolution was a failure but intellectually it was ground breaking in my opinion."
This is breathtakingly silly. The French Revolution took a huge portion of its ideals *from* the American Revolution. Or do you think the only ideals of the French Revolution that were worthwhile were the ones they didn't take from the American? That's... what, populist redistribution of wealth?
milflyboy Pre revolutionary france, was a society based on orders, in many ways peasants weren't far off from being enslaved to their lords.
And talking about ideals, the American Revolution didn't attempt to solve the issue of slavery or the fate or the natives and their ultimate genocide. That's why despite all the fancy talk I don't think it was revolutionary, it was in many ways conservative.
As for thinkers english ones had probably a bigger impact on the revolution than any american one, in particular John Locke during the liberal phase of the revolution. Rousseau also had a huge impact on the radical phase led by Robespierre and the jacobins.
But I can tell you're not happy that I don't think that the American revolution is that ground breaking, but no need to call me an idiot, let's just agree to disagree (also try to avoid to necro something I posted more than one year ago).
The French Revolution was the 'big bang' of modern history, and probably the most important event in human history outright. It showed people a new way was possible. It's why we think democracy is a good idea. It's why we have human rights, constitutions, liberalism, secularism, feminism, socialism -- in other words, the modern world.
It's a sad commentary on the way conservatives think that, two centuries after the Revolution, their greatest criticism against it is that it was violent. What a shocking thought, a violent revolution! Tell me, how did America win independence against the British? By holding hands with King George and singing kumbaya? No, we went to war. And when we found loyalists conspiring with the British, we hanged them and left their bodies dangling in the streets as a warning. The French Revolution was violent because it had to be violent. Only violence could uproot and destroy the fundamentally corrupt and corrosive system represented by the Old Regime. Violence, internally and externally, is why the Revolution succeeded; it's how France won the Revolutionary Wars. The ideals of the Revolution -- liberty, equality, fraternity -- did not spread because they were lofty and intellectual. They spread because the French spent a decade (and another one later with Napoleon) kicking the living crap out of all the monarchies of Europe (Prussians, Austrians, Spaniards, Russians, Italians, etc). And once Europe realized that the French system worked, they themselves adopted the fundamental reforms instituted by Napoleon and the Revolution and used those reforms to ultimately beat the French.
Below are some of the profound consequences and aftershocks of the Revolution which the video did not mention:
1) The independence movements in Central and South America. The reason why countries like Argentina and Brazil are independent is because of the Revolution and Napoleon's rise to power. The Napoleonic Wars absolutely ruined Portugal and Spain, to such an extent that the latter two did not have the resources to defend their colonial empires. Within a few years after the Napoleonic Wars, all of Central and South America was free. Thank you French Revolution.
2) The expansion of the United States. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 more than doubled the size of the United States and set America on a path of conquest that would last throughout the 19th century. And how did the French get the Louisiana Territory that they sold to us? They beat the crap out of the Spanish in the Revolutionary Wars and took it from them through a treaty. I should also add: the Revolution made America a democracy. Our Founding Fathers established this country as a republic and equated 'democracy' with 'anarchy' and mob rule. It was the French Revolution that made American society consider democracy as a viable political option (the emergence and character of the Democratic Party under Jefferson is a direct consequence of the Revolution). Thank you French Revolution.
3) The rise of nationalism, worldwide. It's a quirky fact about modern history that Italy's flag was designed by Napoleon. The very reason why nations like Italy and Germany exist is because of the Revolution, since it unleashed a series of nationalist movements that we still live with today. Thank you French Revolution.
4) The impact of the Revolution had no geographical limits. It led to several wars in India, even causing Hinduism to become more conservative as a reaction. It also led to the Haitian Revolution and to the effective independence of Egypt from the Ottoman Empire. Thank you French Revolution.
5) Movements for abolition and universal suffrage in the 19th century were a direct result of the French Revolution. If you can vote and you're not a slave, thank the Revolution!
I could keep going until we're old and gray, but I've made my basic point: human life and human history are inseparable from the Revolution. Because of the French Revolution, our kids will believe that the future will be better than the past and that humanity is destined to do great things in this universe. The Revolution gave humanity hope, plain and simple.
At the end of the day, the revolution failed, and all it really was for a large span of time was a bloody mess in the streets of France.
@@tomemeornottomeme1864 It didn't, it laid the foundation of modern society,so ot was no failure in that regard.
@@basilofgoodwishes4138 Yes, but they cycled through a few more monarchies after the revolution.
No wonder the queen of England WANTS to pay tax
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True she is not obligated to do so but she do it anyway.
She is not queen of England but of the United Kingdom
Basel Othman, dear, The kingdom of England (Kingdom =country having at its head a monarch)doesn’t exist since 1707, Jacques 6 had united the Kingdom of England and Scotland to form Great Britain and the story continues with the unification of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Some Americans still think that it’s said England but hehe England is now a region it’s like saying that the US president is just president of Virginia .Her royal (there are other aristocratic titles that she possessed)title is based on the country that she is the monarch. But you can say that she is queen of Canada without saying that she is queen of Australia (She truly is )because this is two different countries unlike England and Scotland which are two different regions of the same country (Kingdom)
Now something differ from “Queen of the United Kingdom ” and “Elizabeth the second ” .The person, her majesty ,has an countless number of title that passed by the cold forest of Canada to the Highlands without forgetting the beautiful beaches of Fidji .some of her titles are passed generations by generations of monarch during more that one thousand years and don’t forget about the remains of the British Empire (which differ from the monarchs that keep many of their titles unless the Fragmentation of the British empire that now « Elizabeth the second » possessed .Wait a second now we must consider the religious titles,the international titles and etc etc...
i´m literally watching this as im doing my exams in French history, translating this is hopefully gonna keep me from getting caught copying literally every word he says:)
So why do paintings from the French Revolution always depict women topless? And why can't the US ever have a topless revolution?
+Flintstoned that painting isn't about the french revolution of 1789 but the revolution of 1848
+Flintstoned Ok it's very simple. The woman depicted on the Delacroix's painting is an allegory of the Freedom. And the Freedom is the Mother of the Nation, she feeds it, so the breast symbolize the milking mother of the Nation.
+Flintstoned Then, if US should have a topless person to feed them, it should be an old capitalist ^^
+Flintstoned You have one ! #freethenipple
don't be mindblown but the statue of liberty ever wondered how/why was it a female ? ;)
I can learn so much more from you videos than our books. Just ten minutes can do wonders. Thank you so much guys!!
Thank you so much! This is so helpful!