Why The French Revolution Was Worse Than You Thought
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2024
- The French Revolution is often portrayed in the West as a case of the oppressed masses rising up against a tyrannical monarchy, nobility, and clergy. This narrative is often backed up by films, history textbooks, and even video games. But the truth is the reality of the French Revolution is much more complicated that. In reality, the French Revolution took a flawed system and turned it into a monstrosity that was much worse. In this video on Pax Tube, I explain why The French Revolution was worse than it is often portrayed, and how its flawed philosophies led to the Reign of Terror and more. Listen in for a lesson about one of the most important and controversial events of modern history!
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0:00 Intro
1:49 France Before Revolution
8:08 Influence of the Enlightenment
12:08 The Revolution Begins
19:48 The Reign of Terror
25:22 The Revolution Winds Down
27:18 Conclusion
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Citations:
'The French Revolution' by Hilaire Belloc
'Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution' by Simon Schama
'Causes of the French Revolution - Encyclopedia Britannica'
www.britannica.com/place/Fran...
'The Long and Short Reasons For Why Revolution Broke Out in France in 1789' by Swansea University Historians
www.swansea.ac.uk/history/his...
'Catholic Theology and the Enlightenment' by Ulrich Lehner
tinyurl.com/mpvmcvxa
'The DeChristianization of France During the French Revolution' by Alberto M. Piedra
www.iwp.edu/articles/2018/01/...
"People are inherently good."
Proceeds to brutally kill all opposition.
Few things are as objectively irrational and insane as the idea that people are inherently good.
@@jupiterrising887 You are wrong.
@@Pioneer_DE The weight of all recorded history says I'm right.
@@jupiterrising887 Sure, name an example
@@Pioneer_DE The French Revolution.
The French revolution and its consequences
Have been devastating for the europeans
@@SIGNOR-G *for the human race
@@SIGNOR-G john doyle-
This was said by John
@@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING thats what i said 😉
When being worried is a crime punishable by *death*
You know something went horribly wrong
"The problem with guillotining all enemies of the people, is that you eventually run out of people."
-Robespierre (maybe)
"He was stabbed to death by a moderate" - kinda sums it up.
As I recall she lost her head over that. Please correct me if I am wrong.
“When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box”
🥶
A VERY wise saying. It's SO.
Lovely comment!
That isn't the end, though. Where will your soul go when your body returns to dust?
@@johnnymiller7322 You take for granted that there is a "soul". The idea of soul is just a response to the fear of eternal death and ceasing of existing forever. Enjoy life while you can. 😄
What these historical movies show us how quickly heroes become villains and allies turn into enemies. There was an old joke I loved. Three prisoners in a Russian jail were locked in isolation wards. They managed to dig a tunnel and meet. The oldest guy says :-
"I was locked away because in 1950 I spoke up for Kruschov"
The second guy says "I was locked away because in 1960 I spoke up against Kruschov"
The third guy says "I was locked away because in 1970 I was Kruschov"
There's a similar joke in Monte Cristo (forget book). 1 char goes to jail for defying the king. The old guy he shares a cell with is there for supporting the king.
I don’t get it
@@mrpickles7812 Dark humor is like food, not everyone gets it. - Stalin
@@mrpickles7812 Russia has a long history of locking up people for their beliefs.
@@mrpickles7812ead again kiddo, 1950 spoke up for kruschov, means kruschov was a popular hero opposition against dictator ruling government, 1960 spoke up against kruschov means he became ruling dictator, 1970 means kruschov lose against opposition, are you 12 years old?
"Like Saturn, the revolution devours it's own children." This is what scares me the most about a full on revolution. One day you're the hero and the next day your head is rolling. With a revolution the power changes quickly in instabilities throughout the land.
Sounds like my job hero to zero in a nanosecond 😂
Revolutions always polarize people so there is no middle ground--you will not be allowed to be a moderate or sit on the fence. "Either you are with us or against us" is the prevailing attitude. The extremists rise to power by sheer violence, then turn on their not-so-extreme colleagues.
I have noticed that those who push for revolution always think they will magically escape this eventuality.
The men who made the revolution and were made by the revolution were devoured by the revolution. "Oh no. I didn't think the Leopards would eat my face!!"
@@genericyoutubeaccount579 in fact the revolutionnaries were eaten by centerists and then counter-revolutionnaries ; there's much more to that story that hat this vid tells you.
As a Frenchman myself, I have to say that this is probably the vest summary of that whole tragedy I've watched
As a fellow Frenchman, it fills me with pleasure to see others like you are also interested in this era of history! I make first-hand account videos about historical moments, many of which are from the French Revolution, Robespierre, Louis XVI ect... (and all of its gruesome executions). If you have the time and are passionate about the subject, I’d love to know if you enjoy the videos I’ve made! Merci, all the best!! I recommend specifically my videos on Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and Napoleon:)
@@RelivingHistory1You deserve much more subscriptions
@@emirobinatoru oh thanks man!! In reality, I am happy with the amount I have, considering I only started a few months ago! I just have to keep being consistent:) "if you build it, they will come". I appreciate it
God save France! My brother! Greetings from America!
@@michaelstonebraker8802 Same country where lot's of people tell stuff like we are b*tch who do not know what a war is, with a "surrendering" way of life, that the french resistance didn't exist before 1944. We're not brothers anymore. Lafayette made a huge mistake to convince Louis XVI to send the troops who made you win the Yorktown campain and gain independance from England.
Whenever one cares to study the French Revolution to any depth, one quickly realises that it was an absolute horror
Freemasonry!!!!
Absolute error!!!
@Alex G obviously you do not know history!!! and repeat what they have made you to believe!!!
@@dvdortiz9031 Yeah dude we're really missing out as citizens not paying multiple private and public tax collectors in order to service the debt of a failed war by our monarch/s
@@dvdortiz9031 history is what we see in the rear view mirror and how we interpret what we are seeing. We wouldn’t be where we are today without the French Revolution.
"Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years." -- Edmund Burke, writing on the French Revolution
ha, "We;re 'avin a phrenzy!" was a by-word for party for a wee while in my circle in Manchester, England.
I never knew it had such historical and philosophical genes! Ty
This quote from Burke is ignoring that the commoners within the estates general did initially try to resolve their grievances via reform. That failed due to the Monarchy and clergys resolve to hold onto the power of a divine monarcht. Common people starving and being taxed into egregious debt generally arent going to sit around and write a peaceful petition.
@@alexg1751 And how well did the proceeding events work out for the common people? Burke very much was concerned for the ordinary folk of France. What he warned (and predicted) was that eradicating everything a society was built upon, all to try to reforge society in some abstract ideal, would only lead to misery, not progress.
Edmund Burke was not some guy advocating for the status quo. He was a vocal proponent for American Independence, harshly criticised British involvement in India, and was one of four MPs to sign a petition for the abolition of slavery. That's why Burke's opposition to the French Revolution is significant. He may have liked the goals of the French Revolutionaries, but knew the reality.
The way that the French revolution is talked about in this movie is very different from the way that I understood it. In the original way it was the King that wanted war against Austria, and it was a way of keeping his power. He was executed after the revolutionaries found a letter he wrote to the King of Austria (which was a relative of his) telling him about the plan.
@@Pan_Z If we're going merely by measuring the livelyhood of the common working people of france (proletarians and peasants) then living standards overall improved both during the revolution and the reaction leading to Napoelons reign. When youre a seriously corrupt ruler taxing the peasants into starvation they arent going to settle for gradual, potential reforms to alleviate their problems, they will take it into their own hands. In this case through a radical experiment in direct democracy.
The French revolution was a model for the 1917 Russian revolution which brought about even more horrible massacres and suffering.
Their day is coming. Freemasonry is dying and the other party (the ones Solzhenytsn wouldn't name) in charge are losing control. I can't wait to see the shock on their face, although I'm curious if their trial will be in the streets or in the courts.
And yet marxist, communist teachers college still praise it 😮💨
True dat
Yes, Yes it was
And that served as a precursor to the Maoist regime which killed more
Pride. The ideas that they were smarter, more just, more benevolent: better than those who came before them led to their own demise. We must not fall into the same trap when looking at them.
The idea that they were going to do it better than God was their arrogance, little has changed in our generation. We are being prepared for something big for that nefarious spirit travels through the ages but his end is certain.
more than just that, the fact that they saw themselves as some sort of prophet in Enlightenment, is funny and at the same time provokes my reluctance
@@michellemobakeng5938which God?
@@arushreddi5419 Which God?
The one God who created you and who offers you eternal life.
Revelation 1:8
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come--the Almighty.
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Isaiah 45:5
I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me,
Human hubris. It’s a feature of life, not a bug, unfortunately.
I visited Mont St Michel not so long ago. My wife and I went on a guided tour.Our tour guide who is also a historian, explained how beautiful the cathedral and Abby were brightly painted in representation of the garden of Eden. She went on to explain that all the paint was stripped from its walls and frescoes destroyed, I could not understand why anyone would destroy such beauty so I asked who was responsible. She simply said “the French Revolution “.At the time I could not understand how anybody could do such a thing ,watching this now I do.
Yep in all of france in church's and castles you can come across broken status blason that where ripped off walls and even kings tombs that where destroyed and pillage and the explanation is quite often "the French Revolution" But concerning the painting it could be a bit more complicated. You see painting church was not really a thing just in mont st Michael it's a tradition that was pretty much in all of France. The things is that this tradition had been lost through time more than anything else. The revolution could have been a factor in this but it's not like every church got there wall painting removed. It's a bit similar to the fact that Greek statue where actually painted but it eventually were off and we forgot it was this way before. Maybe it just became a cool trend to have the stone not painted and it stayed like that to this day.
The same thing happened during the English civil war.
@@dodongo7819or...it was the French Revolution..
If you were chained at birth, you might understand their rage
@@safedreams6241 That “rage “ brought about the death of tens of thousands of innocent people. Your right I don’t understand but I do see revenge when I see it.
There's an old joke I heard one time:
There was a young turnip farmer in the south of France who one day had a team of horses come riding up to his farm. One of them announced "By order of King Louis XVI you are required to surrender a portion of your turnips by divine right." A few years later he was out in his field when a team of horses came riding up. One of them announced "Citizen Robespierre has volunteered you to give up some of the peoples' turnips." A few years later he was out in his field when a team of horses came riding up. One of them announced "Emperor Napoleon requires your turnips for the glorious army's conquest of Europe." A few years later the now old man was out in his field when a team of horses came up wearing the emblems he saw many years before, yet before any of them could announce anything he said "who wants my turnips now?"
Interesting
Kings were brutal too
In 1950 his grand grand grand son saw an army of bulldozers approaching his turnip field. They stopped and one of the drivers announced "By order of the général de Gaulle the state takes possession of all the fields of the area and erase all groves in order to consolidate them into one giant field suitable for industrial agricultural exploitation and large scale mechanized farming of turnips."
In the 1990 his grand grand grand grand son, who was now an employee at the local cooperative farm received an email from the European Union telling him that their subsidization of the production of turnips will stop unless they destroy at least 300 tons of Turnips in order to reduce the offer on the market." He had only 200 tons in stock so he lost the subsides.
In 2025 his grand grand grand grand grand son was about to hang himself when his smartphone rang. He was notified that he had exceeded his carbon footprint quota for the year and that his social score was degraded from "climatoskeptic" to "polar-bearophobe". As a result he will face a lock-down measure until the end of the year when his carbon footprint quota will be reset.
@Sυρεr Frσg this is the most schizo response I have seen to a comment in a while. You're doing God's work son. o7
@@shanesalyers5433 They are coming for your turnips, anon!
An old man shouted to Robespierre as he was dragged up to the guillotine:
"Oui, Robespierre! Il y a un Dieu! -"Yes, Robespierre! There IS a God!!"
Stupid because Robespierre strived to end persecutions against christians. Did you read his speeches which are readily available on the Internet as well as countless books on the periods.
Robespierre was everything but an atheist
@@thomasgodet7294
Robespierre was nothing but a deist with a hatred of Catholicism. That is quite different from being a "believer".
@@sliglusamelius8578 who said he was a christian believer? the comment to which I was responding seemed to mistake robespierre for an atheist which isn't the case
@@thomasgodet7294
Deism is practically atheism. What creedal formula does it hold? None. Call it what you will, it wasn't "religion", it was atheism with a veneer of woo-woo.
History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes (almost perfectly).
OK now I'm chilled to the bone. You take that part from the conclusion about what they revolutionaries thought they were doing VS what actually resulted, and I feel like you're describing what is in the earliest steps of happening today with increasing social and political radicalization.
Yep. We have the same exact conditions in america that lead up to the french revolution. Political Elite buffoons proudly flaunting their illgotten gains from robbing the poor working class taxpayers thinking they are safe in their ivory towers
Chilled to the bone lol go get some fresh air and stop consuming your own farts
You're right, fella. I feel the same way. Also if you look at the fall of The Roman Empire, I certainly see many scarey similarities and I think what we know as "Society" today, is on the Eve of Destruction.
I could go on further about what was written in the Book of Revelation...things certainly have gone wrong and are getting way out of control. I fear the "future".
Democracy when the voters are idiots and the choices are only the corrupt tend to self destruct.
It IS what is happening. Now, just imagine what kind of 'force' is behind this. Nothing new under the sun. Keep God close.
One crucial event nobody talks about is what happened in the morning before the fall of the Bastille, the 14 of July 1789. A croud gathered at the Hôtel des Invalides. The Invalides is a military hospital created by Louis XIV for the war invalids. But it is also the headquarters of the military governor of Paris. Therefore the Hôtel des Invalides hosts a large arsenal of military weapons. In the morning of the 14 , a crowd gathered at the Invalides and the officer in charge retreated for some inexplicable reason giving them access to the arsenal. So when, in the afternoon, when representatives of the Assemblée Nationale presented themselves at la Bastille located at the opposite side of Paris, there was also a crowd armed with 30.000 to 40.000 riffles and even a canon. The Bastille was, like the tower of London, a medieval fort converted into a prison. They were only 7 prisoners inside but also the stock of canon powder of Paris. Something the crown did not know but the military governor of Paris knew very well.
One can speculate that the governor of Paris took part to a conspiracy with members of the Assemblée Nationale to arm the citizens with the guns from the Invalides and the powder from the Bastille.
Or one can believe that was is pure coincidence and the crowd was very lucky that day.
Ccharles-Maurice de Talleyrand (the main power nroker of the period) used to say "Agitate the people before using it, such a wise maxim." ("Agitate before using" was usually written on vials containing pharmaceutical beverages back then)
But you also forget the governor of the Bastille was in the middle of negotiatons with the crowd, when randomly it turned violent. He was probably going to surrender without a fight, but had to forestall and save face for a bit. It didn't help that there were 5000 royalist soldiers across the channel on a field, that had 0 intention of lifting a finger in defense of Bastille...
@@MrThe1And0nly How comes that ever since the crowd was always defeated by the police?
@@srfrg9707 Didn't understand the question
@@MrThe1And0nly You can't expect to negotiate with a crowd armed with 30.000 guns and a canon can you?
@@srfrg9707 But they did negotiate. And there weren't 30k people at Bastille.
All accounts blame the other side for starting shooting and the historical consensus seems to be it was an accident it got violent.
Basically, these guys made cancel culture a pastime.
With murder*
Sounds like a conservatives view of this biased view of the revolution.
This quote is in relation to the later revolutions' of 1848, but still applicable and as haunting:
"I saw society cut into two: those who possessed nothing, united in a common greed; those who possessed something, united in a common terror"
-Alexis de Tocqueville
saying people who had nothing were united by greed is the dumbest take I've ever read
Tocqueville has many good quotes... this is not one of them.
'For liberty' reminds me of 'our Democracy, our values"
"Diversity is our strength" is another one.
Exactly "our democracy "
I thought the same.
Our beautiful, modern and progressive values.
These are the new pagan gods of our age. I've heard there's even a giant statue of the false liberty goddess in New York.
How it started: Eat the rich
How it ended: Eat themselves
More like
Rich people: hey you guys should eat these other rich people but not us
"Instead they created their own Greek tragedy!"
oh, I loved this line so much
Revolutions have happened many times in history. But few were as messy and crazy as the French Revolution.
thank god they were few! shows that humanity at least exists and not everyone needs to turn mad
Oh I don't know, I can't think of many revolutions that weren't a total shitshow. Maybe the American Revolution, but that may be due to the revolutionaries literally being on an entirely different continent to the ruling faction.
You know, as garbage of a Developer as Ubisoft is to this day i am still impressed by how savage they portrayed the french revolution in Assassin's Creed Unity.
Was just about to comment this
damn now i wanna play that
They are a French company so it was the least they could've done
Not like you can evade the subject. 40 000 poeple condemned to death without trials, war crime in Vendée, and poeple getting beated down or outright killed in the street for nothing more than disagreeing even slightly with the revolution is hard to pass over
Really? I thought that it was quite poor. Not quite there with 'The Ottoman Empire was about muh equality and diversity and kumbayah'....
I've also not forgiven them for painting the British Empire, which for all its faults promoted Common Law and the rights of the individual as 'evil'.
The problem with Ubisoft is they tried to make a 'moral' story about an assassin..... yep... you couldn't make it up.
It's fascinating how the Enlightenment idea of "safety" continues to be reinvented as its advocates demand absolute loyalty to whatever snap decisions they come up with and claim the legitimacy of the use of unlimited force to justify their aims.
Which is totally unjustified, unlike when kings just do as they please because “god said so,” and that’s completely based and redpilled.
@@thedemonhater7748Kings of yesteryear needed to appease multiple semi-independent institutions to gain power, aka noblesse oblige. The revolution, however, achieved total state control that the kings of old could only dream of. Even French Absolutism didn't achieve such totalizing control over everything. Who knew the "will of the people" always end up in radical totalitarianism. Funny stuff
@@webmaristocrat4052 the revolutionaries never had full state control. Large chunks of France were in open rebellion against the revolutionary government up until Napoleon put them down and later declared himself dictator.
It laid the foundation for the modern French Republic, in which the President, while powerful, is still heavily constrained on what he can and cannot do by men and women elected by the people, rather than a small class of land owning aristocrats.
@@thedemonhater7748 sure, they weren't as effective as a totalitarian body because technology in the 18th century can't compensate to the societal groundwork they're laying down at that time. The Revolutionaries worked so hard to centralize every single aspect of the human being to achieve their radical vision of ultraliberalism, and they did work hard to chip away any semblance of decentralized institution that exists in the past few centuries.
The fact that they have to kill and martyr clergymen to achieve this utopic vision of ultraliberalism really says a lot of this whole mass demonic possession masquerading as an "enlightened movement"
@@webmaristocrat4052 “mass demonic possession” please tell me you don’t unironically think this. I was under the impression I was arguing against a modern, educated person and not a medieval peasant screaming “SATAAAAN” or “DEMOOONS” at anything he doesn’t understand.
Good job,but little unclear in some cases.Carmelites were executed on July 17 in 1794 and 11 days later Robespierre lost his head. I think it’s important
Are you suggesting that the murder of the Carmelites was the last straw for many people? I hadn’t thought of that.
@@Colonel_Blimp robespierre wasn't overthrown by people who could have been moved by the death of the carmelites he was overthrown by people who had practiced dechristianisation all over the country and who feared that Robespierre would crack down on them (people such as Tallien to the right or Collot d'Herbois to the left)
The problem was that liberty as defined by the French intellectuals was given by the state and its powers to preserve it, which means it could also take it away at any time. The American revolution defined liberty more accurately as the rights of man to not be molester by government interference and that liberty was defined by the individual and not government, meaning that government had no right to take it away.
This is the foundation crux. By what standard and by what authority?
Aristotelian man is the measure of all things and the State is the highest organizing principle of all reality vs Pre-political inalienable rights endowed by the Creator who's law word to which everyone from the lowest labor to the supreme magistrate is bound to obey and will be held to account.
The American Constitution says our rights are inalienable BECAUSE THEY COME FROM GOD
"..not to be molested.."
In school as a kid in America, I remember how glorified the French Revolution was.
It was propped up as a movement of the under-dog, little guy peasants, finally getting rid of the big mean rich blue-bloods.
But the more I've learned about the French Revolution over the years;
I see now that it was an age where France plunged into "Lord of the Flies" and all the adults were no where to be found.
Yes, it was a bourgeoise revolution against the aristocracy and the clercy, it is a quintessential example of class struggle.
French revolution is perfect example of Capitalist takeover (productive forces became too powerfull and needed to take action to brake guild rules so that they can form market and produce more and earn more profits)
>little guy peasants, finally getting rid of the big mean rich blue-bloods.
Ah, I see the mentality of "Small guy, good guy. Big guy, bad guy" we see today has existed for more than 200 years.
@@durshurrikun150 It turns out the bourgeoise are far worse than the aristocracy.
@@user-xg8yy7yl1d I don't know about that, what I know is that the proletariat is far better than both.
Besides, at least the bourgeoise manage to modernize society, if it was up to the aristocracy we would still be living and sleeping with the animals, dieing of easily curable diseases and praying to the sky and delusionally hoping for a response.
Excellent video. One lesson we can take into today is to remember that the body responsible for the worst of the terror was called “ The Committee of Public Safety.” Most tyranny is done in the name of safety.
Health and safety... vakzine and lovkdown
Just like how the Freemasons claim to exist for the happiness of mankind, yet they run America from behind the scenes, run the police from behind the scenes and torture and murder, also wage wars, for profit, for themselves.
Tyranny is almost always exercised in the name of something: Justice, Liberty, Freedom, God, Tradition, Purity, the people, etc.
Always be weary if actions are carried out and justified „in the name of“ something.
also in the name of equality and fraternity
@@TheHesseJames
wary
So far, the critics of this video are people saying that the fellow giving the presentation is biased and clearly a Catholic… If that sounds familiar then it may be because you have heard of an event called the French Revolution.
You're wrong, 90% French people are Christians And citizens (citizen is a revolution concept).
Religion and politics are completely seperate entities, religion can't have any power in the public sphere.
@@melaniezette886"religon cant have any power in the public sphere"
Whats the argument for that?
@@Nathan-rn7wlIf a law the citizens passed and voted on is seen in anyway relating to religion, then the courts will remove it.
But the state can pass any law and legalize anything because secularism isn't held back by religion.
Make sense? Oh and replace nobility with faceless corporations and banks. Long live the republics!
@@cfroi08 When you say relating to religion, what do you mean? LIke, as in, placing some government power over what churches may preach? Or would it be more like a law banning abortion?
@@cfroi08"...or is seen in any way..."
England under Oliver Cromwell was a police state
This occurred nearly two centuries prior to the French Revolution
Not to mention Ivan the Terrible
Yes Mr. Catholic
You should make a video on the Russian Revolution of 1917, I'd be really interested in that
That would be cool but it would get removed for antisemitism if he told the whole story
communism is not even try yet that the whole explaination from russian revolution
@@ZyklonBeast12 _>implying the (((revolution))) in this video was French ITFP_
@@iwantcoconutv2877and communism mustn't be tried any time again because it always led to the cruelest tyrannys in human history.
@@ZyklonBeast12same as this video would have. He likely doesn't know those things anyway, but he does mention in passing the connection to masonry.
“The French government spent half their tax revenue on debt service”…..sounds a lot like the path the US is on currently 😐
Almost the whole world is in that debt shit honestly
and the woke revolution in the us seems to be very similar to the beginnings of the French revolution
@@midosch7639 A lot of Europe was in debt as well during that time, Napoleon refused to inherit the debt and pay the banks. The rest is history.
And modern day France aswell.
And guess who holds most of the debt. Yup, the usual suspects
Edmund Burke's "reflection on the revolution in France" is an excellent criticism of the revolution in France. Highly recommend it.
Whenever you hear "Utopian Society" get ready for the exact opposite.
@@Rowlph8888 That's plain gibberish, we are all much dumber after reading this, thank you.
The sadism and barbarism of the French Revolution was unreal
We all descend to a collective darkness in an unusual time. Man becomes irreverent and against his very self. A bloody dissolution of the self, also our collective self alongside.
In periods of relative stability we have an balance, the right and wrong seem to be in a see-saw relation, neither getting the upper hand for long.
No see-saw or broken see-saw takes us back to ground zero. None of the institutions matter at all. No allegiances are worthy.
I studied the French Revolution in my European History 1600-present course in 2006, HIS108 I think. It was absolutely fascinating and one of the most important events in history. The whole thing was insane. And any history lover needs to do a deep dive into this period.
it is in many ways similar to the woke revolution of our times
It's sort of ironic in a weird way, how little even history fans like myself know about the whole thing. A lot of our history is written in english and overly focuses on anglophones/protestants. Like the 7 years war was the real american revolution in the sense that it was the war where both england and france lost control over north America. The French lost their torritories to the british, and the british lost true control to the newly empowered American armies.
@bastiat ?
Every citizen should have knowledge of it. It illustrates perfectly well how a group of otherwise intelligent people dedicated ostensibly to some very honorable goals can lose the plot and become murderous destroyers. It also goes to the danger of criminalizing ideological and political dissent.
@@adamseidel9780 The devil had honorable goals
The key difference between the American revolution and the French revolution imo was that the Americans were not year 0 revolutionaries. They wanted to self govern and clearly took radical means to achieve that but they also had profound respect for tradition and the political and social values that british and other Europeans have imparted on them. For example even the contitution draws largely on english common law and the english bill of rights. The French were year 0 revoluntaries and therefore wholly radical. This is why it was so violent and the change was so profound and even damaging to society. To paint it as a example of people freeing themselves from tyranny has always been a overly simplistic way of studying it, it was more "liberal" middle class elites and manipluating the masses with nice sounding ideas. I'm very happy i was born in Britain. We seem to have an adverse reaction to extreme ideas and seem to have got the balance between needed reform but also valuing the past and tradtion right.
Also how much of this is parallel to today. Who is the group saying all the past Is wrong and we need to start again, who is the side dehumanising and belittling political opponents, who is the side pretending to be liberals but actually policing speech and using their power to fire people or cancel people? Pretty scary actually.
American Revolutionaries wanted to eat their cake and have it too, you will realize that you cannot have both
You didn't talk about how when Robespierre realized he was going to be arrested he shot himself with a flintlock pistol. Unfortunately, it for him it wasn't fatal. He only suceeded in shattering his jaw bone, so the last hours of his life were spent in terrible pain. When he was eventually led up to the guillotine, due to his broken jaw he wasn't even able to speak any last words to the crowd.
We don't know for sure that he tried to kill himself it is possible that he was shot at during a gunfire exchange at the hotel de ville
Thank you for this summary of a turbulent time in French history. However, at 5.50, you refer to Louis XV as the son of Louis XIV -- in fact, Louis XV was the great-grandson of Le Roi Soleil. Louis XIV's son had died in 1711, followed by the death of Louis XIV's grandson in 1712. (Although this video is filled with a great deal of facts/information, we did not want your viewers to be misinformed about the lineage between Louis XIV and the next French king.)
This comment deserves to be pinned seen by more people ^^
This is the second inaccuracy in 5 minutes and it indicates a lack of research and/or attention to details, so I'm gonna stop watching - a foreigner's perception of la Terreur sounded interesting, but not if it comes from someone who overlooked something that easy to find out...
I wish the Laki eruption in 1883 had been mentioned at this point in the video too, considering it had repercussions on the French weather and crops for years... It indirectly played a huge part in why there were so many hungry people in the country at the time, after all. And no easy way to fix things.
@@offrainc6455I kept watching. It had an interesting take. Interestingly the writer seems to be pro Catholic, and there was an emphasis on the anti-Church aspect of the Revolution. It seems to have a quite conservative, Catholic Church agenda.
@@offrainc6455By the way there is a typo in your comment- it should be the Laki eruption of 1783.
I have to wonder if those deaths were orchestrated. Look at the policies of Louis XV.
The fact that the forces at work in the French revolution are still at work today would imply they had been pushing toward those ends for awhile.
@@brontewcat more than just conservative in another video he clearly show himself as a white supremacist which is just hilarious coming from a catholic considering that most Catholics are not white.
The Soviet Union: We are the world's first bastion of communism!
France under Maximilien Robespierre: Hold my wine, citizen.
jup and it has and will always end the same... people are stupid and blind :)
Robespierre wasn't even a socialist let alone anything that can be linked to Marxism, outside of the brutality of their ways and the admiration it created in future communists thinkers, i do not see any sort of link between their ideologies.
Can you produce actual arguments instead of some joke thrown at the wall ?
@@khorneflakes2175 It is not wise to question the leadership, comra- I mean citizen.
Based, Robespierre did nothing wrong
@@khorneflakes2175back in his day we was more "socialist" than most of his pair.
Just that "socialism" was not really a "thing" back in the 18th unless you are saying that during the enlightenment, every one know what "socialism", "patriotism", "fascism", "communism" etc are and act to be in one of this concept?
Cause if that the case most people if not everyone before and during the 17th(to the extent to the 18th for some part of the world)are nationalism.
As an American living through 2023... I'm seeing a lot of sentiments here you could apply in my country now...
What a saga.
1. Have a good idea.
2. Ask for it.
3. Get rejected.
4. Fight for it.
5. Meet resistance.
6. Bring more people.
7. Crush resistance.
8. Euphoria.
9. Want more.
10. Look for limits.
11. Make enemies.
12. Make terror.
13. Monopolize terror.
14. Regulate violence.
15. Export violence.
16. Bring violence back.
17. Reflect.
…
18. See what can be done with what is left of the initial good idea.
Glad you used footage from the movie Danton as it really helps temper the fervor that so often accompanies revolution. Revolution is so romanticized (star wars, che guevara etc.) we neglect how easily one becomes the very thing they swore to destroy (or worse(
It usually turns a bigger monster than it creates. What really always strikes me is the scale of oppression, jailing of people and executions after the revolutionary gov'ts are created. Ancien regime was a horrible regime, it was oppressive. And yet the number of people it killed in decades was probably was less than what the number was at the height of revolution for just a week. Like they start with a seven people jailed in Bastille and then they just kill hundreds a day at some point.
My coworker had a cynical saying: “To defeat a monster, you must become a monster.”
@@perfectsplit5515 was going to say the same thing. The saying actually goes more like, if you become a monster to defeat a monster, the monster wins. Doing evil in the name of good, is evil.
Star Wars and its simplistic empire bad, rebels good, democracy good, separatist bad is a disaster for the political uneducated
The moral: if you are born unprivileged, you are screwed or become a criminal
As a French person, I like this video a lot.
I've been thinking about it for a few years, but I feel like the French Revolution is a glorified civil war
Bien sûr que c'est une guerre civile, c'est tout le principe d'une révolution
It's a glorified "holocaust".
Historically, Napoleon always said the revolution was a glorified civil war
By definition, all revolutions are civil wars.
Technically speaking it was a civil war. Though perhaps folks don’t call it that because the factions can be difficult to define at times.
The nobles (the highest upper class below royalty)were getting taxed equally as the poor. They literally grouped together and created propaganda and killed royally, peasants, and other nobles that didn't have their ideologies. A coup basically.
It was the first populist propaganda fueled revolution of modernity - pseudo-populism 'from above'.
The similarities to what’s happening today are scary.
"Revolutions are rarely from the ground up" This comment in the beginning hits the nail on the head about the realities of how/why revolutions happen. Revolutions don't happen because the people at the bottom are fed up and tired. Revolutions happen because key players at the top are dissatisfied and start fighting with each other. The money in organization has to come from somewhere and it's not going to come from the poor and huddled masses.
Jaquerie starts when the people are pissed off.
Revolutions start when the people and the elites are pissed off.
You`re absolutely right; resolutions are usually instigated by "foreign" agents ,i.e. Zionistic Jews in Russia, and I have a sneaky suspicions that they ,the "bourgeoise" so euphemistically named ,were the "leavening" inspirators of this horrendous French revolution, but this is jut a hunch.
That's simply the law of orders of magnitude. Every movement needs organizers, logistics, messaging. Depending on the size of the change you want to make, you need more organizers, more money, more propaganda.
The message may start at the bottom, but the revolution comes from the top. Ironic really, because this story has played out a dozen times over. "We need to remove this monarch/dictator/whatever and replace him with something even worse!"
Freemasons played a big part in the french revolution.
It's not as simple as that. Oppressive autocratic governments by monarchs who actually believe in the 'divine right of kings' is the essence of revolution. The suffocating poverty of millions is also a good spur to revolt. 'Fed up and tired' doesn't come into it.
It's also worth mentioning that the French Revolution not only had long lasting consequences in Europe, but also in Latin America as well.
For example, many of the Libertadores were inspired by the same ideals that motivated the Jacobins, and the Left-Right spectrum was for a long time very similar to that of Continental Europe (e.g. if you were on the Right, it meant you favored Throne and Altar, whereas if you were on the Left, it meant you supported Republicanism and secularism).
Also, there are more specific cases like Mexico, where the Cristero War was more-or-less their version of the Vendee Uprising, and the post-independence regime had shifted back and forth between a monarchy that was fairly supportive of the Church and an anticlerical republic (likewise both Emperors Agustin and Maximilian met a similar fate as Louis XVI), and then Haiti, whose revolution started out as a slave rebellion with legitimate grievances, but then spiraled out of control when Dessalines ordered the massacre of all the French Haitians because they were representatives of the old colonial regime.
"many of the Libertadores were inspired by the same ideals that motivated the Jacobins"
and all of them were freemasons too... imagine the surprise... all those revolutions served the British Empire really well... it's like if freemasonry was a british thing made to serve the british crown... or somethin'...
Not just there.
They're the first reason why a horrible thing called politics of North Korea exist today.
The country which my ancestors have came from also suffers from the similar fate.
Even though I have far more reasons but that alone itself explains a lot of how horrible it was
The night b/4 his execution, Robespierre tried to commit suicide, but missed and broke his jaw. He used paper to make a bandage of sorts to keep it in place, so he was in utter agony up until the moment they dropped the blade. I don't remember reading about how he was placed on the board, but it might have been due to his jaw falling off if they had placed him face down.
A fitting end frankly
Good. Divine justice
It's even worse, Robespierre worked with his brother, so the both of them were supposed to be executed and his brother didn't fail his suicide and blew his brains out. Robespierre blew his jaw and got guillotined
The epic unabridged novel Les Miserables took place 43 years after the French Revolution in the early to mid 1800s in Paris in the June Rebellion of June 1832 during the European Enlightenment movement - with some Catholic themes in it although Victor Hugo never intended it- the Catholic theme of mercy compassion amendment and salvation- (Jean Valjean) - Javert represented the French Revolution itself (despair and self destruction the ultimate consequence)
But the epic novel showed how France was no longer a true Catholic nation during the 1800s AD like it once was after the reign of King Charlemagne during the 800s AD to 1300s AD (500 years !)
Do people really think France was a “poor backwater under the king” country?
Yes unfortunately, although the people who think this tend to think all monarchies were poor and backwards, I think it's more an anti-monarchy bias than a specifically anti-ancient regime
90% of french were in poverty
@@matthiuskoenig3378 in Brazil the monarchy was the best goverment we ever had and the republic was literally the worst thing that ever happened to our country, monarchism is growing here for a reason
yes-it-was
Well, the American MSM keeps putting out the trope that Russia is a poor backwater under a dictator. Ignorance reigns supreme sometimes.
Strange. Back in highschool they taught us that the kings were evil oppressors with no redeemable qualities and the revolutionaries were the heroes spreading freedom and liberty.
Oversimplifications, lies and myths. History classes are sadly full of it
Funnily enough, in my history classes, we were taught good things by kings too. So the French Republic has at least the merit to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, even if I dislike the regime.
That's the truth.
the french revolution was a fight between the middle class burgioise and the upper class monarchy
@@arisaka233 Yes and it was progressive in character as it led to further development of humanity
"They believed women getting involved in the political process would destroy society". Very prescient.
Feminisim have Destroyed Society
They have been involved in every major western democracy for the last 100 years. what are you talking about? 🤣
@@Person0fColor look where it got western democracies. Socialist hellscapes on the edge of bankruptcy flooded with illegals.
Wow, guess they were right
Sounds like you agree with them.....
Imagine being killed by a commited for public safety lmao.
Each time I learn more about the French Revolution and its consequences, my resolve to pray and act to reverse the effects of this disastrous time period is strengthened. Truly a horrific thing for Western society.
What do you believe were the greatest negative consequences of the French Revolution?
Democracy
The French Revolution laid the foundation for pretty much all of the issues Western society stuggles with today.
@Alessio the American revolution had already occurred decades earlier 😂
@@ForageGardener Yeah but the Americans are neither European nor enlightend, they are a bunch of plebs posing as a government
Like a Spanish proffesor said: The French Revolution is the biggest chromatic shit in the history of humanity.
Russian and Chinese revolution were 20x worse.
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I would say that this title goes to the Protestant Reform.
@@akbrasil2454 How so. As a Protestant, I too am disgusted by the French Revolution when learning more about it.
@@akbrasil2454 The Catholic Church was corrupted and Martin Luther opposed this (especially the practice of selling indulgences). Unfortunately he later became convinced that the Pope was the Antichrist...
"Do what you want as long as it doesn't hurt anybody" smh
whats wrong with that idea
@@S.D.323 it can be an excuse to do evil.
We are literally in the early stages of this today (in the west)
I can't believe how similar the Russian Revolution and the emerging Soviet Union was to the French Revolution!
And Mexico in the 20th century
-Country has problems
-People Ended up turning against the status Quo
-turns out that taking down a flawed system Is Easy, the difficult part Is enforcing a new One
- shit happens
@@jml732 French Revolution sought to export an ideology of bourgeois liberalism throughout the world though, so both the Revolutionaries and the Bolsheviks were highly similar in that regard.
It's all fruit of the same idea. Liberalism birthed Socialism and Marxism. All are simply open rebellion against the Creator and Natural Law.
Great summary! Thanks for bringing up the Vendée war. It's an often overlooked part of the French Revolution, and shows an overlooked aspect that was also a part of most revolutions that followed - how most of the population in rural areas usually remained with the Church and the King, and were threatened to join revolutionary regimes by violent thugs sent by city-based elites.
This is totally relevant to our time.
Totally false, France wasn't united at all at the time, a patchwork of provinces with their own situations prior to the revolution. In languedoc for example and other Pays d'État as Artois, Provence, life was quite good. Not so much in central and nothern France. "rural areas" doesn't mean anything as their sociology differed widely from province to province.
with Trump it is quite different... he wants revolution and he is backed by rural population
Ok. I know you're Catholic but here are important things:
- The poor third estate people were not just "oppressed". People were starving at the time because of the harsh weather of the 1780s. Crops failed and farmers had to give up a large amount of their harvest to their masters and landlords.
- Since the Bourgeois also are in the third estate, they wanted to separate from the "dirty poor" and gain recognition and control, so they used the ignorant, starving and angry people to fuel the war. So basically, this was more of a liberal revolution rather than a leftist one.
- The masses did not "hate" the king Louis XVI because he was a "tyrant". They actually see how he was supportive and even willing to give up some of his power to the masses. He even wore the Revolutionary Bonnet. The people, however, HATED the queen Marie Antoinette because she was overspending even though her husband inherited a bankrupt France. She carried on throwing lavish parties, paying for crazy hairstyles, gambling and so on.
- The reason why the king was executed has never been tyranny, but treason. He was caught disguised in Verdun along with his wife and son during his attempt to flee the kingdom to the Austrian Netherlands, where he could be protected by his father-in-law and even start an invasion of France from the outside to restore his throne.
- The reason why the clergy were so hated among the masses is that they were literally parasites to the poor. Commoners had to pay so many taxes (which where inconsistent throughout French territories) in addition to the church tithe and services, whereas the clergy and the nobles paid little to no taxes at all. The clergy offered no help to the people, only sermons about redemption and hopes of being saved even though there was nothing than can alleviate their hopelessness. A starving person literally paying church tithes is insane. Someone who is malnourished for a long period of time cannot think correctly or work well, let alone worship. Only parasites live and strive at the expense of their poor, sick hosts.
- For years, the nobility's main interest was conquering other territories. France helped the American independence movement which further made it more bankrupt. The money made by the commoners was taking by their feudal lords and overlords to wage wars at the expense of the majority's hard work, health and resources.
- The Bourgeois who stood along the poor wanted more freedom for THEMSELVES. Later on, they will oppress the very subjects they pretended to defend, exploiting every last blood droplet in them for the sake of capital and production.
Many of the clips in this video are from Polish director Andrzej Wajda's film, DANTON. Robespierre was played by Wojciech Pszoniak a well known Polish actor. The film was filmed around the time when back in Poland Gen Jaruzelski was cracking down on the democratic opposition of the Solidarity trade union in the form of marshal law.
polish people playing french People??? weird
That’s ironic
"Why The French Revolution Was Worse Than You Thought"
No, this is just as bad as I thought it was. Maybe it's romanticised in America but this is pretty much how it was taught to us in Europe
It open the door to all the "ism" in the 20th century with a devasting and tragic event.
In France its somewhat romanticised, it depends.
The Revolution is romanticised by the left and the napoleonic period is romanticised by the right.
The nobles of France were in fact NOT entrepreneurial at all. That's actually the main difference between the UK and France. Work was seen as something bad and in fact nobles risked losing their status if they tried to open a factory or what not. You can take a look at Asha Logos video on the French revolution here too btw.
A huge part of french scientists of that era were nobles. Reaumur is the perfect example. You could say they were entrepreneurs, not businessmen
This video is pretty bad honestly, and comes from a fairly buased point of view
@@wantedwario2621 Yeah, I was like... this is such a biased view that the history it conveys through that lens is... not accurate.
The left never changes.
Lmao dorky ahh comment
The Left Woke up on the Wrong Side of the Bed (Stupid puns - I'm going to stop now)
Well said Kevin. The Left is a blight on humanity. Hail victory!!
A young Lt. Colonel named George Washington indirectly caused the Seven Years War by being slaughtering a 50 strong French delegation he thought was an attacking force. And of course the Colonial Revolutionary War the French helped finance. Then the French Rebels trying to copy parts of the US Declaration of Independence & Constitution they obviously felt influenced by. The French Rebels even had it right by abolishing slavery (and not repeating the US's hypocrisy) but royalist Napoleon reinstated it.
The US did a vote for slavery, instead of affirming their own principles of self ownership and equality before the law.
Whereas Napoleon reisntated slavery to appease haitian landowners (he was very pragmatic in just about anything).
Its funny how the people that help such monsters are the first ones on the chopping block but Machiavelli already knew that. The same thing will happen to the people that support such people in our times.
It's the communist way. They're known today as "useful idiots".
The left wing circular firing squad. 🤔 😂
Well they're the ones likely to be privy to conversations and information that may undermine other revolutionaries in the future, so yes they're typically the first to go once they've reached the limit of their usefulness
Jacinda Ardern and Trudeau spring to mind.
History repeats because human nature never changes. Traitors are never trusted, even when you make them, and the useful idiots always end up against the wall first.
By not failing to highlight the role of freemasonry in the Revolution you have really distinguished yourself from the herd of historians who only relate the litany of useless establishment bromides about its causes. Thank you and well done!!
more and more younger and unbiased historians are having their say
When I was a youngster, it was a sin to draw a link between Masonry and the French Revolution, it was an unforgivable act of "conspiracism" as one would say these days. And then, when I turned 20 years old, I happened to visit the french Masonry museum (Grand Orient, rue Cadet, Paris) and guess what: there was in it a full wall dedicated to the "Masonry as the French Revolution main engine" with a lot of portraits, documents facsimiles and so on. Alas it was way before the existence of tiny digital cameras, and as photography was forbidden in the museum, I could not take a single picture of this willful disclosure. Too bad.
Fast forward: nowadays, this is "conspiracism" again to state that Masonry was behind the French Revolution, despite the clues that are just everywhere and this museum wall that confesses just everything... Oh, wait a minute ! The wall is not any longer, as usually, Masonry plays the card of "erased memory".
Freemasonry is a truly evil organization but Ignatius Loyola's Jesuits were just as evil and just as secretive. Both of these evil organizations played a part in the massacre.
@@marcosfelipedeborbaengster9722 Oh, yes, he has his biases. However, everyone does. I think it'll be helpful in the pile of info I'll gather - especially from my son who has just announced he's been hard core studying it all by himself for ages. My kids know more than me on just about everything! lol. Which is a good thing. Do you have any suggestions for good docs? I'm finding it difficult to read these days due to an illness. Docs are easier.
You have the only centered comment here!!!
In the end, I've always said that the French Revolution was nothing but a hellish anarchy. Sure, some changes were needed, but they killed the French King unjustly, wrongfully, and its honestly a tragedy how so many people view and overglorify the situation as a "fight for freedom".
It was actually a satanic ritual inaugurating modernity as the age of unbounded desire and mimetic rivalries.
I think even today Varennes would be considered a case of HighTreason;
The whole thing ended in the restoration of the monarchy. It was basically a really intense fever dream.
Nice one with that fever dream👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
France is no longer a monarchy. It is a Republic, been since Ganbetta. I expect ( and hope ) it to remain Republican in the foreseeable future.
The French revolution is one of the things I despise the most in the history of my country ! 💀
It's still baffling to me that the storm on the bastille is the national day of France, and the Marseillaise is it's anthem...
The masons (allies of the Jews) were behind this.
@@MrsYasha1984 because you monarchists lost
Fellow orthodox, God bless
@@MrsYasha1984 the revolutionaries won, changed the history and how people viewed it and moved on. Even napoleon leveraged it
The french revolutionary government was arguably the most chaotic government in history. This is what happens when people who put equality over order are in charge
The word Terrorism was created to describe that government.
Cultural Revolution era PRC was quite similar. The crazy thing with that affair is the fact that the CPC had consolidated power years previously and things had more or less stabilized following the insanity of the Great Leap Forward. Mao just set unhinged student radicals on a rampage and gutted state structures because things were going too well for his tastes.
@@copperlemon1more people should know about the cultural revolution. It's scary to see some aspects of it begin to appear in western society.
Keep in mind that they were not really in favour of equality (seeing how they were against women's sufferage or even the one's without wealth/property having a right to vote).
More often than not it's often just virtue signaling by those donning the guise of equality to whip up the masses and stoke the flames burning at the root issues of a nation until the pot is about to boil over.
Yeah, because they were under threat of invasion by all european countries who were fomenting civil war using fifth columns inside the country.
Unfortunately, what many modern people have learned from this history is to envy the methods of the Jakobins, a wish to emulate it.
I've been trying to find a historical nexus for what I see playing out before my eyes, and this might be it.
Thanks, great video, very thought provoking and eye opening.
Number 1 lesson: as long as the nobility AND the plebes are happy, no wars! But if no war, then massive corruption happens (spice must flow)
This subject was not sugarcoated when I was in school. While the gory details where left out we still learned how horrific it was for everyone involved and there were no pure good or bad.
If a mob kills you, your wife and kids... that's pure bad.
@@markhirstwood4190 So, maybe stop eating all the cake, forcing the poor to eat literal cow shit, and then being surprised when the people eating cow shit (90% of the popultation) rises up and murders 10% of the wealthy, unarmed, dull, stupid and ignorant wealthy who made others eat literal cow shit.
Amazing how being a literal fascist, hateful, short-sighted idiot comes back to bite them in the ass.
@@markhirstwood4190 I agree monarchy is bad, because they left the people to starve and die.
@@markhirstwood4190 if the king has you killed for refusing to kneel, that's worse
@@GalacticNovaOverlord theyre just as bad
I recently finished reading the novel "Zanoni", and book 7 is set in the Reign of Terror. While it only covers the couple of days leading up to Robespierre's downfall, Bulwer-Lytton does a superb job depicting the full horror of the Reign of Terror. Indeed, he uses many primary source documents, including various writings and memoirs of Robespierre, to inform both action and dialog, so it is extremely authentic, and utterly terrifying. Terror is indeed a very good descriptor.
Illusion by Paula Volsky is an amazing fantasy novel also which tracks the French Revolution
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The revolution was instigated by the Jacobines, the rich lawyers, traders and burocrats of France. They wanted to be equal to the king (whom they killed), but had no intensions to give this privilige to the poor masses. As every single Jacobin intended to be equal to the King, none of them survived, not a single one. And than the revolution took 2 mio. french lives. Finally the most ruthless warlord Napoleon got the general killing under control and started a war from Sweden to Egypt, and from Portugal to Moscow. In between he crowned himself emperor. This is the end of such revolutions. The poor never have started a revolution, they usually are busy to make ends meet. They are used and paid only by the real actors. The Russian revolution was instigated by the Austrian and German secret services and aimed to get rid of the Russian army during WW1 (which was not a Great War at all), and was successful. A special train with Lenin, Trozki and a bunch of other criminals plus money and weapons was arranged in the 1917 warfar from neutral Switzerland across Germany, Danemark, Sweden and Finland to Russia. It was not the poor russians who were responsible for their revolution.
I really appreciate your logic and structure to your videos. You don’t give them too much credit but you do correct for the stupidity of the masses. Taking intellectual shortcuts. I highly approve. Instant subscribe.
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It should be remembered that the French wars of religion also played a significant role in fermenting the eventual revolution, as it was what caused so many people to conclude that religion was irrationally and irredeemably violent.
The french helped the protestant in the 30 years war without the French intervention Protestantism would be reduced to the british and nordic.
@@Projolo The fact that the officially Catholic nation of France made of policy of aiding some Protestants abroad out of Machiavellianism was not lost on the critics of religion:
"Franois I., very Christian, will unite with Mussulmans against Charles V., very Catholic. Francois I. will give money to the Lutherans of Germany to support them in their revolt against the emperor; but, in accordance with custom, he will start by having Lutherans burned at home. For political reasons he pays them in Saxony; for political reasons he burns them in Paris. But what will happen? Persecutions make proselytes? Soon France will be full of new Protestants. At first they will let themselves be hanged, later they in their turn will hang. There will be civil wars, then will come the St. Bartholomew; and this corner of the world will be worse than all that the ancients and moderns have ever told of hell." - Voltaire, *Toleration*
That's because they would rather manipulate the truth so as to not see themselves to blame for the violence, for man has no one to blame but his own nature for the very concept of death, for death is the wages of sin. (Genesis 2:17, Romans 6:23) The Bible is quite clear about this and it warned the truly faithful that if they ignore total depravity, they walk into peril without God. It is these Godless heathens and heretics, not by Catholic doctrine for it is clouded in apostasy, but by Biblical doctrine, the doctrine spoken about in the Letters of Paul, Peter, Jude, James, and John, which were iterated once again by Augustine, Luther, and Calvin. (alongside many other Church fathers) If one cannot read the Bible to see clearly that the root of man is evil, then the only logical conclusion is a disregard for all life, for it says that God must be of no value (For why would God make suffering? Why should death enter Creation? Why should Jesus be sent to die for the sins of the world which He made?) and if God is of no value, how then can man be of any value? This is the inconsistent standard, one does not get to rob from the Christian view for the value of life, the presupposition we carry is for God, but as for them, they lack anything to define a value for life, so why do they still make the assumption that it even needs a value, why should anyone care? Yet they refuse to accept this and do not ask why. For they surpress the truth in unrighteousness. (Romans 1:18) This is the question they don't want answered for it reveals the hypocrisy of their position. Those who live in darkness hide from the light for darkness trembles at the light that scatters the darkness, and it so it flees, the one and only truth destroys the lies and reveals the liars for who they are. (John 1:1-5, John 3:20, John 12:35) So know this, it has always been man who is the murderer, rapist, thief, warmonger, slaver, degenerate, deceiver and liar, blasphemer. If you were so easily convinced to despise faith on the basis of war, you deserve everything you get when you give up the faith so easily, for you have been promised curses for turning against God, but blessing is reserved for those who turn to God in times of weakness, for weakness begets God's strength. For those who hear this, you have been warned, for those who hear this and refuse to listen, this is the bed you lay, you are without excuse, scoffers will be struck harshly. (Proverbs 13, Proverbs 19:29, Acts 13:41)
Not really, nothing in it has anything to do with religion wars, as they already ended for france centuries ago.
@@SirDrakeFrancis The wars themselves had ended, but the theological issues that provoked the violence it the first place was still a continuing source of controversy and polarization for French society at large. The Kingdom of France continued as a Catholic nation through the "absolutist" power of the state, not because there was an organic cultural consensus towards the Church amongst the French citizenry themselves in the way there was before the Reformation.
French Protestants resented the state-enforced status of Catholicism for obvious reasons, but even many non-Protestants were put off by the heavy-handed way that religion was enforced, and on a more abstract level, there was a growing number of philosophes who begrudged the fact that the government reserved the right to regulate the ideology of the nation in general.
Amazing video!! Could you perhaps elaborate more on the conditions of the French Revolution & how that tracks against America’s own political landscape of the last 10 years?
Bro, please keep making videos!! These are soooooo good! Im binge watching them all right now
Do one on the Habsburgs next!
It's depressive to think that there was more rational discussions towards an inevitable reform of the Monarchy around 1788; that the tyrannies that succeeded the King's death did and were the absolute opposite of the three-worded revolutionary slogan; and that mere few years after they murdered the King they bowed down in complete submission to a self-crowned warmonger.
How can such a people deserve any respect?
Welcome to Human Nature at its core...
We are all corruptible and deviant sinners left to our own devices.
The only answer is Jesus
Tbh, the army of Napoleon only reluctantly followed him into the Empire. They followed him because he was their general, not emperor, as many were republicans at heart. Still, only one general offered a snide remark at the coronation: "Did a million french soldiers die for this?"
For that insult he was barred from serving at the front, until the 100 days, where he died in combat a few days before waterloo.
I'd say one of the best lessons to take from the revolution is that too much change all at once is dangerous. Change over time is safer but can hurt the citizenry for that length of time. Balancing progress is key as good ideas require forging and reforging until they are stable enough to stand on their own merit. Also top down change is tyrannical while bottom up can be chaotic. Evolution of society is better than revolution of society
In principle, no one would disagree. Yet, a situation ( any situation ) that is totally blocked takes a huge blow to unblock, it's inevitable. A very bad phase that cannot be skipped, one can wait forever for reasonable evolution. Only when things settle down after the explosion, things can be rearranged with reason. Which is what happened in the aftermath of the revolution. Changing things takes a lot of damage, and time to reflect on it.
What chills me are the parallels we can see in a number of countries as we progress through history and events now. Things move in cycles.
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity
No hetersexual white Christian males need apply.
They place good for bad an bad for good. Bastardized word's is part of that. Both positive and negative does getting called a Nazi even mean anything anymore?
Yes
Man makes me wonder
Liberalism will never change because liberals will never admit when they fucked up.
The ideology has had more dead bodies than any other political movement but they are always for the positive, right?
One insight i find absolutely prudent.....they tarnished the queen with accusations of bestiality and degeneracy, so that they could overthrow her and.......institute mass degeneracy. It is indeed a rich tapestry.
fake news
I think in the end the explanation for the events that transpired was simple: they became addicted to murder.
They had the power to kill with impunity, and I think they got a taste for it. Once they ran out of guilty to execute, they weren't about to go cold turkey.
just like the soviets
True, mobs and tyrants tend to get blood drunk and paranoid in the end. Stalin and Cambodja come to mind. "Purity" as exemplified by Robespierre is a very dangerous thing to strive for.
"religion became an after thought especially for clergymen. Prostitution and porn industries grew"
Oh my that sounds familiar
Hey! That is today! No wonder God knows better than us, "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun." -Ecclesiastes 1:9
@@oscarfabi_Your god caused the plague.
Just for clarification, the Jacobins weren't the most radical revolutionary faction. That would be the Engrages
The thing about history is, there's always someone putting their spin on it to support their personal feels.
Ironic, considering the video itself…
@@jordinagel1184 indeed...
It's refreshing, especially as a teacher, to hear the more conservative viewpoint on the French Revolution. A lot of overlap with the typical "liberal" point of view, but also quite a few new pieces of evidence, surprising elements I hadn't considered or emphasized before, etc. I'll be sure to take much of this under advisement. Thanks.
Make sure you teach your students that this new atheist French government murdered 200,000 of their own citizens during the late 18th century all in the name of "Liberty".
And remind them of the 83 years during the 20th century when atheist communist governments murdered over 100,000,000 of their own citizens.
as a Frenchman, I think it's more a militant catholic viewpoint than anything else. Very biased IMHO. I mean, blaming pornography?? In the 18th century, really? come on.
@@croulantroulant3082 You do know that pornography was actually pretty widespread in the 18th century, right? I even studied this in my undergraduate Enlightenment Seminar course. Think about it: the printing press is essentially the early version of the internet.
@@aurenkleige well I know about the Marquis de Sade, that kind of thing. in that era, pornography was basically novels. How many people had access to that really? Today everybody has internet access, or almost. Not everyone had books or could read in the 18th century....far from it!
@@croulantroulant3082 I think you are gravely underestimating literacy rates in the 18th century. By that point, we are looking at numbers in France, England, and what remains of the HRE prior to Napoleon approaching percentages well above 50% (if my memory is serving me correctly). Especially in cities, where politics often formed and were disseminated, the publication of pornography was definitively a factor in all of this.
the history of France is fascinating...the more I read it, the more passionate I am about it.
what is a little exasperating is that the Anglo-Saxons always twist history to their advantage....but we are now used to being very suspicious of that....it's sad.
Oh yes. Now under Macron they are creating a super-EU with the Germans to have better control of everything, with lesser people on the sidelines. Got to keep other Europeans as "landes" and the elites of France / Germany as the thinking, wise, intellectuals who get the money.
a quick side-note: to better understand what is meant with positive and negative freedom, think positive freedom as focusing on "freedom to" and negative freedom as "freedom from"
Absolute freedom is doing whatever they want with no consequence
@@LiamHalla-pe5ntBut that doesn't exist. Every action has consequences. Always. Even if you are the only human on earth.
mmmmmmmm isn't freedom also means that being free to express your opinion? to be free to have any religion you want? French Revolution is the opposite of such a thing and ironic how they had the nerve to criticize the church for doing the exact same thing
You should definitely cover the Mexican Revolution as well
Do you have any idea how broad that is? Anyway it still is a good idea, I never see Mexican history talked about that much.
Cristeros resistance would be an excellent topic
@@richardamerike7328 totally agree
It is similar to the French revolution freemasons destroying monarchy.
@@Projolo i see a pattern emerging...
The french revolution is better described as "the atheist crusade".
More like the first communist revolution
hellhole of a bunch of lunatics is the better word for it! calling it FRENCH is a huge insult to literally everyone who during that time who were against it, or simply had different opinions, ask Vendee, south of France and Lyon about it and the price they paid! unless if Parisians somehow decided to disown them as French people
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Spot on! I was told the family name "perdieu" was not our real name because it was changed after they fled France during the revolution. And per or par means "for" and Dieu means "God", so clearly they adopted the name in defiance of the evil ones trying to once again force everyone to their evil religion. I'm a Christian but my heritage is Sephardic Jew, just like Jesus, and I suspect those targeted were Sephardic Jews, just like in the Holocaust.
@@robynperdieu3434 It's a fitting name, all things considered.
Somehow people still think the french revolution was good. It made napoleon who he was but we couldve done without him im sure
In France this is propaganda taught at school. Since the 1870's the republican regimes had to justify their existence by sacralizing the 1789's revolution.
@@bobbyb9258 Civic Religion
It's also interesting to note that many of the revolutionaries in the Jacobin faction are really ugly, disgusting, or down right childish.
The Jacobins in Italy destroyed a Roman equestrian statue of Septimius Severus in Ravenna. Anti-Christian, Europhobic proto-marxists they are.
spiteful mutants ?
like the communists
The manlet 5’3” Robespierre vs the over 6’ King Louis XVI.
@@LEGOSHADOWSPARTAN no wonder he went mad with power compensation is quite the thing