Law of 14 Frimaire
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So, welcome back to our regularly scheduled program. I hope you enjoyed the supplementals while I was away. The tours, as usual, were fantastic, and I’ve got a little collection of pictures up at revolutionspodcast.com so you can get an idea of just how much fun we had and just […]
Philippe Egalite
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. As I mentioned back in Episode 3.25, the Duke d’Orléans, the renegade Prince of the Blood who was now styling himself Philippe Egalite deserves more attention than I have been able to give him. Since he is about to get his head chopped off, I figured that now would be […]
Saturn’s Children
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. On March 13, 1793, a few days after the first aborted attempt by the Enragé agitators to purge the National Convention of the Girondin delegates, one of those Girondins, stood up to deliver a prophetic verdict on the direction of the Revolution. Now, so far in the show, I have […]
The Geography of Terror
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Last time we brought ourselves right up to the beginning of the Reign of Terror, which is about to descend on France. But though the Terror played out as a bloody game of sadistic revolutionary partisanship in Paris, the bulk of its victims were not major political figures, but rather […]
The Committee of Public Safety
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. As the array of political and military disasters that erupted on all fronts in mid 1793 threatened to consume revolutionary France, the now Mountain-dominated National Convention decided that they were absolutely not going to go down without a fight. The Federalists would be crushed, the rebels in the Vendée exterminated, […]