In this episode, David A. Bell introduces Napoleon Bonaparte and his revolutionary life and career.

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David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Department of History at Princeton. He is the author of seven books, including the prize-winning The First Total War (2007), and, most recently, Men on Horseback (2020).

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Napoleon - The Very Short Introductions Podcast - Episode 78

In the age of absolutism, France had towered over European life and politics -- the only nation that was a major land power on the Continent and a colonial metropole with an overseas empire at the same time.  Yet by 1900, tossed about by repeated revolutions and coups and torn asunder by often petty internal culture wars, France was falling behind its rivals to become almost a second-rate power.  Once the Radical Party rode the Dreyfus Affair into government, they had to rush to reposition France to try to take advantage of the tensions and instability in the Balkans, and prepare the nation to possibly face off once more against their archrival across the Rhine -- Germany.

Image:  illustration of the "degradation" ceremony of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, in Le Petit Journal, 1895.

Christopher Clark's lecture on "France and the Origins of the Great War":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx_V4NAUuW8

Suggested further reading:  Romier, "A History of France," Norwich, "A History of France," Maurois, "A History of France."

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Origins of the First World War, pt. 8 -- France

From the Revolution’s earliest days, crowds were pivotal. A Parisian crowd toppled the symbol of the Old Regime’s despotism: the Bastille. A crowd led by Parisian market women brought the revolutionary National Assembly and the royal family away from the palace at Versailles and into the heart of the capital of Paris. Throughout the decade that followed, the Revolutionary crowd remained a significant political force—one to which the elected leaders in the National Assembly listened.

Understanding the formation, psychology, communication, and political aims of the revolutionary crowd has been a subject of scholarly study for at least fifty years. Recent work has made clear that peaceful collective action was a hallmark of the Revolution. Nevertheless, the specter of political violence remains in the ways that the Revolution is remembered—the linking of political violence and crowds so vividly rendered by early critics, such as Charles Dickens and Edmund Burke, has continued to resonate. Moreover, collective action remains an important locus of political communication and activity today. 

The French Revolutionary crowd is an especially rich case for considering up close the connections between collective action, democracy, and the power of emotion.

Featuring David Andress, Principal Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Portsmouth, Katie Jarvis, Carl E. Koch Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, and Moderator Margaret Newell, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University.

This is an Ohio State University Center for Historical Research presentation. For more info about CHR, please visit CHR.osu.edu

Anger & the Crowd:  Emotion, contentious politics & collective action in age of French Revolution

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Marees de la Seine (Original Game Soundtrack)

The City - Marees de la Seine

How might we translate the French Revolution in ways that open it up to the 21st century?

Translating the French Revolution

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The trial and execution of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), formerly the queen of France, was among the opening events of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution (1789-1799). Accused of a series of crimes that included conspiring with foreign powers against the security of France, Marie Antoinette was found guilty of high treason and executed on 16 October 1793.

Original article: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2099/trial-and-execution-of-marie-antoinette/

Trial and Execution of Marie Antoinette

The scale and horror of the First World War were possible only after the Nineteenth Century's double revolution in the nature of war. Warfare -- including weaponry, strategy, and command -- had remained mostly unchanged for three centuries, from the early integration of firearms in the 1400s until the French Revolution; the campaigns of Napoleon unleashed a new era of mass mobilization and nationalistic fury, while a series of haphazard improvements massively multiplied the killing power and reach of firearms, tearing open a battlefield "killing zone" unlike anything that prior generations of soldiers could have imagined. We follow both the breakdown in the old distinctions between war and civil society and the breakneck advance in land and sea warfare that set the stage for the nightmare of World War I.

Image: Japanese riflemen defending a breastwork embankment, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5.

Margaret MacMillan on war & 19th-century society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJVe0KLONJU

Nicholas Murray on the emergence of trench warfare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cbq7iu8FrI

Suggested further reading: Nicholas Murray, "The Rocky Road to the Great War"; Margaret MacMillan, "The War That Ended Peace";  Hew Strachan, "A Clausewitz for Every Season," https://www.the-american-interest.com/2007/07/01/a-clausewitz-for-every-season/

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Origins of the First World War, pt. 11 -- The 19th-Century Revolution in Warfare

Συζητούν ο Κώστας Γαγανάκης και ο Γιώργος Νούσης

Ο Γιώργος Νούσης συζητά με τον ιστορικό Κώστα Γαγανάκη για τις ιδέες, την ιστοριογραφία και το ιστορικό αποτύπωμα ενός γεγονότος που μετέβαλε ριζικά τον ρου της ιστορίας. Πρόκειται για τη γαλλική επανάσταση, η οποία πέραν των κατακλυσμιαίων αλλαγών που επέφερε στο εσωτερικό της Γαλλίας, καθόρισε εν πολλοίς τον τρόπο με τον οποίο προσεγγίζουμε, αντιλαμβανόμαστε και μιλάμε για το παρελθόν, τροφοδοτώντας μας με ένα νέο λεξιλόγιο και με νέες έννοιες.

Ήταν η γαλλική επανάσταση μία εμφύλια σύγκρουση; Πώς μετασχηματίζονται μέσα στον ιστορικό χρόνο οι εκάστοτε κοινωνικές και πολιτικές ομάδες και πόσο ρευστά είναι τα όρια μεταξύ των Τάξεων οι οποίες συνθέτουν αυτό το σκηνικό της εμφύλιας σύγκρουσης σύμφωνα με το αφήγημα της Jourdan; Πώς μπορούμε να ιστορικοποιήσουμε τις έννοιες του Τρόμου και της Τρομοκρατίας και ποια πορεία ακολούθησαν μέχρι να βρουν το κεφαλαίο τους αρχικό γράμμα; Γιατί μας αφορά ακόμη, ένα τόσο μακρινό παρελθόν σήμερα; Πού μπορούμε να δούμε τα ίχνη αυτού του παρελθόντος στη σημερινή Γαλλία με όρους δημόσιας μνήμης και πώς διαχειρίστηκε το γαλλικό κράτος την παρακαταθήκη αυτού του επαναστατικού παρελθόντος; Πώς συνδέονται τα παραπάνω ερωτήματα με την ποπ κουλτούρα και τις αποτυπώσεις της γαλλικής επανάστασης στον κινηματογράφο και την τηλεόραση, ως εναλλακτικοί τρόποι παραγωγής νοημάτων για το παρελθόν;

Με αφορμή την έκδοση του βιβλίου της AnnieJourdan«Νέα Ιστορία της Γαλλικής Επανάστασης», το οποίο κυκλοφόρησε από τις εκδόσεις Πόλις σε μετάφραση του Κώστα Γαγανάκη, συζητώνται οι νέες ιστοριογραφικές προσεγγίσεις και τα νέα ερμηνευτικά σχήματα μέσα από τα οποία μπορούμε να «διαβάσουμε» αυτό το κοσμοϊστορικό γεγονός.

31/3/2024 - Νέες ιστοριογραφικές προσεγγίσεις της γαλλικής επανάστασης

The daughter of a struggling artist, Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun wins the hearts of the French aristocracy—including Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI—with her sensitive portraits. But it's their heads she should be worried about, and when the Revolution hits she has to make a difficult choice. A remarkable story of freedom, and the lengths we'll go to keep it.

You can see her work in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2570/portrait-of-countess-maria-theresia-bucquoi-elisabeth-louise-vigee-le-brun

For Queen and Country: The Woman who Won Paris

In the first of a limited series of podcasts for Ludovic's Matters, Craig Johnston speaks to renowned European historian Dr Gavin Daly about the French Revolution and more.

The French Revolution With Dr Gavin Daly

The EVILution of Communism Workshop, Session 1

Communism is a religious view that has evolved and adapted over the last two centuries, including right up to the present day. Understanding the developments and threats in our present world requires understanding what Communism really is, especially in its Marxist variants, and how it has developed and changed over the years. In response to this need, James Lindsay of New Discourses held a four-lecture workshop series on the EVILution of Communism in Dallas, Texas, at the start of August 2024.

In the first of these lectures, Lindsay outlines the basics and origins of Communism both as a practical endeavor and as a sociognostic religious movement. He begins by outlining the broader theosophical and occult-mystical nature of a broad suite of belief systems and discusses how they began to graft themselves onto social, political, and economic programs in the middle of the Modern Period. This gives them new expression, although their fundamental core beliefs remain mostly unchanged. Using this foundation, Lindsay discusses the "crude" Communism of Gracchus Babeuf during the French Revolution and contrasts it against Karl Marx's "transcendent" Communism as described in his early writings. Discussing nineteenth century Communism sets the stage and table to discuss the evolution of this religious movement through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century.

The other three lectures in this series can be found here: 
Session 2: Communism 2.0: Industrial Communism: https://newdiscourses.com/2024/11/communism-2-0-industrial-communism-james-lindsay/
Session 3: Communism 2.5: Social Communism: https://newdiscourses.com/2024/11/communism-2-5-social-communism/
Session 4: Communism 3.0: Corporate Communism: https://newdiscourses.com/2024/12/communism-3-0-corporate-communism/

Notes (PDF): https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/DallasWorkshop24-Evilution-of-Communism.pdf

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Communism 1.0: Theoretical Communism | James Lindsay

Le Genevois Jean-François Chaponnière4 (1769-1856) est le père du refrain de cette chanson (1785) mais le texte entier a été écrit par Pierre-Jean de Béranger aux alentours de 1820.

Gavroche

Author Richard Poe discusses his book on the British plot for world domination, how communism was created, the role of the Jews and the occult, how British agents were used to foment the Bolshevik revolution and disintegrate rivals such as the Russian Empire, the French Revolution as the first Color Revolution which elites use to destroy nations, how the Young England movement from two centuries ago that called for a return to feudalism sounds just like today's Great Reset project, conspiracy literature, and more!

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About Richard Poe
Richard Poe is a New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He has written many bestselling books, on many subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. Poe's best-known book is The Shadow Party, co-written with David Horowitz. His latest book is How the British Invented Communism (And Blamed It on the Jews).

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Richard Poe: The British, The Jews, Communism, & World Government #501

239 years ago, on March 11, 1786, the French Diplomat (M.) Otto observed that, “strangers are less impelled thither by need than drawn by the enthusiasm inspired by the prospect of liberty, of abundance, and of happiness” in the soon-to-be state of Kentucky. 

This letter, along with others in the archives of the Kentucky Historical Society, describe the landscape, population, and people. Otto understood the potential chaos of attempting to become a part of the newly formed United States. The Frenchman, who was writing to the Minister of Foreign Affairs back in France, likely saw the parallels in a newly independent United States, and a mounting revolutionary spirit at home, as the French Revolution was on the horizon. He observed that those living in Kentucky, however, were willing to take on the potential conflict for self-representation. 

I’m (Scott Alvey) the (Executive Director) for the Kentucky Historical Society. Learn more at history.ky.gov.


March 11, 1786 - French Diplomat Otto Impressions of Pre-statehood KY (04 of 76)

"The Carmagnole anthem" is a powerful revolutionary anthem blending energetic folk rock with vibrant group vocals. Inspired by the spirit of La Carmagnole, it celebrates freedom, unity, and the fall of tyranny, echoing the unstoppable drive of a people rising for liberty."

The French Revolution (The Carmagnole anthem)

Florian Bro. est un artiste passionné, explorateur des mélodies celtique et médiévales, qui redonne vie aux traditions musicales avec authenticité et modernité. Sa musique, riche en récits et atmosphères évocatrices, transporte ses auditeurs dans un univers à la fois mystérieux et chaleureux. Florian marie avec subtilité instruments traditionnels et arrangements acoustiques, invitant chacun à un voyage hors du temps, au cœur des légendes anciennes et des paysages oniriques. Son approche sincère et poétique fait de chaque morceau une expérience musicale unique, ancrée dans l’histoire, mais résolument vivante.

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Μια εκπομπή για το παρελθόν σε συνεργασία με τα Αρχεία Σύγχρονης Κοινωνικής Ιστορίας

Ιστορική επιμέλεια - παρουσίαση: Μάνος Αυγερίδης, Βαγγέλης Καραμανωλάκης, Γιώργος Νούσης, Χρήστος Τριανταφύλλου, Αναστασία Χαρτοματσίδη

Μουσική επιμέλεια: Νίκος Θεοδωρόπουλος, Θανάσης Μήνας, Ηρώ Κουμεντάκου, Γιάννης Παπακονδύλης

Οργάνωση παραγωγής: Ιωάννα Βόγλη, Πολίνα Ιορδανίδου

Παραγωγή: ΑΣΚΙ / 105,5 Στο Κόκκινο

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