The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29
In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of...
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Hi, my name is John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today we’re going totalk about The French Revolution. Admittedly, this wasn’t the French flag until 1794,but we just felt like he looked good in stripes. As does this guy. Huh?So, while the American Revolution is considered a pretty good thing, the French Revolutionis often seen as a bloody, anarchic mess, which...Mr. Green, Mr. Green! I bet, like always, it’s way more complicated than that.Actually no. It was pretty terrible. Also, like a lot of revolutions, in the end it exchangedan authoritarian regime for an authoritarian regime. But even if the revolution was a mess,its ideas changed human history - far more, I will argue, than the American Revolution.[theme music]Right, so France in the 18th ...
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Hi, my name is John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today we’re going totalk about The French Revolution. Admittedly, this wasn’t the French flag until 1794,but we just felt like he looked good in stripes. As does this guy. Huh?So, while the American Revolution is considered a pretty good thing, the French Revolutionis often seen as a bloody, anarchic mess, which...Mr. Green, Mr. Green! I bet, like always, it’s way more complicated than that.Actually no. It was pretty terrible. Also, like a lot of revolutions, in the end it exchangedan authoritarian regime for an authoritarian regime. But even if the revolution was a mess,its ideas changed human history - far more, I will argue, than the American Revolution.[theme music]Right, so France in the 18th ...
