Misconceptions About the French Revolution

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  • Опубліковано 8 вер 2024

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  • @RyanCarman
    @RyanCarman 3 роки тому +6

    Les Miser-ah-bluh.... LOL You're killin' me Smalls!

  • @MathieuRouland
    @MathieuRouland 3 роки тому +21

    I'm french and i enjoyed this as much as the efforts put in the pronunciation throughout this entier video ✨

    • @EtainMcCloud
      @EtainMcCloud 3 роки тому

      +

    • @SECONDQUEST
      @SECONDQUEST 3 роки тому

      Any specific criticism? You could possibly even send them to the editor.

    • @SECONDQUEST
      @SECONDQUEST 3 роки тому

      @@EtainMcCloud it kind of looks like you live in portland and are a bog standard Oregonian. 🤷

    • @EtainMcCloud
      @EtainMcCloud 3 роки тому +3

      @@SECONDQUEST I understood the OP's comment as being a compliment. In that spirit I commented a + to agree with them and boost the comment. I'm not sure what you're trying to say about me as a person, but it feels aggressive. Maybe slow your roll a little?

    • @grumblefkitty
      @grumblefkitty 3 роки тому

      @@SECONDQUEST I’m a bog standard Missourian and I took enough French classes to know that the pronunciation here was abominable. This was not a compliment.

  • @californiumblog
    @californiumblog 3 роки тому +13

    Ahh yes, 1800s France, where there are so many rebellions they had to start identifying them by the month instead of the year!
    Also, "Do you hear the people sing?" If you want to be inspired, "Empty chairs at empty tables" if you wanna feel all the sad feels.

  • @EggShen905
    @EggShen905 3 роки тому +3

    Marie Antoinette was awesome. The way her reputation has been trashed for three hundred years should be a lesson as to why it's important to correct the historical record before it gets "written by the victors".

  • @Aloddff
    @Aloddff 3 роки тому +18

    Bourgeoisie in this context has no Marxist connotations. It has the same etymology as burger meaning someone who lives in a town (burg). It’s more townie then opulence

    • @tophers3756
      @tophers3756 3 роки тому +1

      Now I want a cheeseburger.

    • @dstinnettmusic
      @dstinnettmusic 2 роки тому

      It kind of has Marxist connotations in the sense that Marx thought that modern capitalism has its roots in those early bourgeoisie. Shop owners who owned their own tools.

  • @CGaboL
    @CGaboL 3 роки тому +5

    I've even heard the quote "Let them eat cake" misattributed to the Pastry War between Mexico and France in the late 1830's, after Mexican police destroyed a French bakery just outside Mexico City. The worst thing is that who claimed that it was said by Empress Charlotte of the Second Mexican Empire, though that is entirely anachronistic as she wouldn't even arrive to the country until the 1860's and she wasn't even French!

  • @craigcox5586
    @craigcox5586 3 роки тому +2

    Another successfully entertaining episode by Mr. Dodd.
    Pronunciation aside, can we agree that there is some great information in there; and that the wallpaper is just fun?!😂
    Good job Justin! 🙂 Keep it up.

  • @GrowingViolet
    @GrowingViolet 3 роки тому +4

    It's been some time since I studied French history in any detail, but for some bizarre reason I had it in my head that the French Revolution, Napoleon, all of that... happened about a hundred years later than it actually did. I blame that in part on American schooling but also... my own ignorance. Oops. Time to do some reading. Thanks for this great video!

    • @GrowingViolet
      @GrowingViolet 3 роки тому

      Also, my favorite song in Les Mis is anytime they sing the words "Two Four Six Oh One." It just hits me so hard! The idea of being reduced to a number, and the passion and edge with which they sing it... amazing.

  • @charleseleggat8836
    @charleseleggat8836 3 роки тому +3

    Victor Hugo did in fact write a novel set in the French Revolution, called 93. I haven't read it but by all accounts its rather good

    • @californiumblog
      @californiumblog 3 роки тому

      I'm assuming it's still exceedingly "paid by the number of pages produced" long-winded?

  • @KuwaCraft
    @KuwaCraft 3 роки тому +3

    Mine is The Confrontation. It makes me giggle every time I hear: "You know nothing of Javert!"

  • @anttibjorklund1869
    @anttibjorklund1869 3 роки тому +3

    My fave Les Mis song is "The Bishop".

    • @Aloddff
      @Aloddff 3 роки тому

      Underrated!

  • @katnip266
    @katnip266 3 роки тому +1

    I haven't seen Les Misérables yet, but there is something about it that makes me want too. lol

  • @darinsingleton3553
    @darinsingleton3553 3 роки тому +6

    "A nobody who made himself a busybody." - a pompous contemporary of Guillotin, who no-one has ever heard of, or will ever remember.
    Gosh, a smug, arrogant, establishment tool sneering at a principled reformer ... how times have changed ...

  • @Jazz41173
    @Jazz41173 3 роки тому +1

    Favorite Les Mis song. A tie between I dreamed a Dream and On My Own.

  • @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
    @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 роки тому +1

    You couldn't find a Liberty cap for this lol, and the Bastille had only 7 people when they raided it one was Marques De Sade

  • @onecertainesquire486
    @onecertainesquire486 2 роки тому +2

    One of the biggest misconceptions was that it was a good thing.

  • @Apophis324
    @Apophis324 3 роки тому +1

    I don't have a favourite Les Miserables song, but I do believe the best version of the story is the one brought by The Animaniacs, Les Miseranimals.

  • @Adam-ds1ik
    @Adam-ds1ik 3 роки тому +6

    Female leaders and lies about words they've said. Name a more iconic duo. Not saying Antoinette was innocent but it seems pretty obvious that the entire list of "let them eat cake" stories is about female leaders.

  • @inafridge8573
    @inafridge8573 2 роки тому

    These videos are fascinating

  • @ferngirltlc
    @ferngirltlc 3 роки тому +1

    One Day More!

  • @fireaza
    @fireaza 3 роки тому +8

    The propensity of the French to rebel and revolt means you kinda have to be more specific when talking about a "French Revolution".

  • @OtherMomo
    @OtherMomo 3 роки тому +2

    funny to hear about the real Bastille and compare it to places im incredibly familllar with, like Dark Souls 2's Lost Bastille

  • @mfvieira89
    @mfvieira89 3 роки тому +2

    You got the picture of the wrong Marie Therese, that's the HREmpress

  • @graphosxp
    @graphosxp 3 роки тому +1

    good!

  • @daxxonjabiru428
    @daxxonjabiru428 3 роки тому +4

    I currently have no misconceptions about the French revolution. Mainly because I have zero conceptions about
    the French revolution.

  • @musicalintentions
    @musicalintentions 3 роки тому

    Great episode as always. LOVE your wallpaper.

  • @nicolasgorrias9631
    @nicolasgorrias9631 3 роки тому

    Hi, nice work :) you are perfect with la Bastille and Marie Antoinette, but for the guillotine part, you have to add something to be completly right : the doctor Guillotin did not create the guillotine etc, but he also did not name it or ask for it. Actually : during fews parlements session, he was outraged by some journalists, (those journalists usually came to session with alcohol, doing noises, and blocking debates). Guillotin, as « secretaire de séance » asked them many times to be quiet and to stop bringing women or alcohol, and he had to make them leave the room during a session. As a revenge, thoses journalists name the machine by his name. At the very begining, it was only kind of a joke to annoy him but many politicians, others journalists and lobbyists found that the idea of shaming this man was a good one and repeat and repeat until it became famous. he suffered this naming and did everything he could to change it but it was too late and he left politic and Paris partly because of this story.

  • @mojosbigsticks
    @mojosbigsticks 3 роки тому +2

    Shoot me, but I really don't like Les Mis. Nice shout out to Halifax though.

  • @geoffroi-le-Hook
    @geoffroi-le-Hook Рік тому

    The July 14th holiday does not commemorate the events of 1789 but rather 1790, when Louis XVI became king of the French rather than king of France.

  • @claysoggyfries
    @claysoggyfries 3 роки тому +2

    I love french fries 🍟

  • @bretbarnett6024
    @bretbarnett6024 2 роки тому +1

    Among the Pinnochio bankers who are said to have helped finance
    the French Revolution are Daniel Itzig (1722-1799), David Friedlander
    (1750-1834), Herz Cerfbeer (1730-1793), Benjamin Goldsmid (1755-
    1808), Abraham Goldsmid (1756-1810), and Moses Mocatta (1768-
    1857), partner of the Goldsmid brothers, and uncle of Sir Moses
    Montefiore (Olivia Marie O'Grady, "The Beasts of the Apocalypse",
    First Amendment Press, 2001, p. 123). All were connected to the
    Illuminati.

  • @Colin-Fenix
    @Colin-Fenix 2 роки тому

    Video is confusing. Says it is regarding misconceptions about the French Revolution but seems to really be misconceptions about the musical Les Miserables, which tells me this isn’t a history documentary but rather an entertainment documentary about a musical.

  • @westwoods7675
    @westwoods7675 3 роки тому +7

    You'd find most of these misconceptions come from Americans or Brits who hardly paid attention in their history classes.

    • @TheMsdmeanor
      @TheMsdmeanor 3 роки тому

      Canadians too. Our history books are ‘inventive’

    • @SECONDQUEST
      @SECONDQUEST 3 роки тому +3

      That's mostly who this is aimed at. Often times UA-cam channels play to their demographics, including geographic location of many viewers.
      You could honestly say the same for other topics. "Misconceptions about oregon" would not exactly be misconceptions held by Oregonians.
      Although, "who hardly paid attention in history class" is incorrect. Countries tend to focus on themselves and have wildly different qualities of history curriculum.

  • @BDAShadow1
    @BDAShadow1 3 роки тому +1

    *Does something nice.
    Convicted of treason and executed.
    Ah.

  • @JackH2478
    @JackH2478 3 роки тому +2

    Gleasons Flat earth map. "Scientifically and practically correct"

    • @wombatdk
      @wombatdk 3 роки тому

      I wondered why he had that one hanging there, too. Haha.

  • @billxenakis6623
    @billxenakis6623 2 роки тому

    Thank you. That was one of the better historical summaries I've watched on this topic. The faint background music was distracting though and added nothing of value to the production.

  • @Hunter-nr5iu
    @Hunter-nr5iu 3 роки тому +1

    :)

  • @mantunes339
    @mantunes339 3 роки тому +3

    it's weird to spend the first quarter of the video talking about something that isn't the french revolution

  • @qwaqwa1960
    @qwaqwa1960 3 роки тому +5

    Pleasssse, next time, get some pronunciation tips first...

    • @mitchkusek
      @mitchkusek 3 роки тому +1

      Miz er ahb lah = nails on a chalkboard

    • @FlorianCalmer
      @FlorianCalmer 3 роки тому +1

      Kills monge day lah bree yoash

  • @zero11010
    @zero11010 3 роки тому +3

    I heard that during the French Revolution it was immediately a draw because both sides surrendered simultaneously.

    • @JoachimTHIBAULT
      @JoachimTHIBAULT 3 роки тому +2

      The country with the most battles won is France with 1,115, followed by Britain with 1,105 and the United States 833.
      Considering the french as surrenderer only because of WWII is pretty much like considering the U.S. as an eternal looser beaucoup of Vietnam ...
      You really should open some history books.

    • @zero11010
      @zero11010 3 роки тому

      @@JoachimTHIBAULT …. The topic was misconceptions, right?
      Humor…. It’s not for everyone.

    • @JoachimTHIBAULT
      @JoachimTHIBAULT 3 роки тому +1

      @@zero11010 or wasn't the subject correcting misconceptions ?
      Joke's on you.

    • @zero11010
      @zero11010 3 роки тому +1

      @@JoachimTHIBAULT I made what I thought was very clearly a joke based on the classic misconception of the French. You took the bait and jumped at the chance to try to correct someone online.
      When it was pointed out you still tried to claim that you corrected me because the video was about misconceptions, and setting them straight.
      At the root you didn’t get the joke. When it was explained you doubled down on not getting it. You’ve definitely convinced me that you don’t get it. It’s cool. You don’t need to keep trying. You’ve made your point.

    • @JoachimTHIBAULT
      @JoachimTHIBAULT 3 роки тому

      @@zero11010 "what I thought was very clearly" Here is your mistake. You should learn about Poe's law
      .
      How could you expect someone to understand your comment as a joke when we hear it so many times seriously ...
      I'm so tired hearing this misconception ...

  • @LauraSomeNumber
    @LauraSomeNumber 3 роки тому +2

    Annoying background music

  • @tappingthevein1
    @tappingthevein1 3 роки тому +2

    More like go straight to jail and bring all your cool garbage isn't it?