Name: The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29
Uploaded: 2013-05-02T09:17:53.000Z
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and today we’re going to talk about The French Revolution.

Admittedly, this wasn’t the French flag until 1794,

but we just felt like he looked good in stripes. [vertical = slimming]

So, while the American Revolution is considered a pretty good thing,

the French Revolution is often seen as a bloody, anarchic mess—which—

in the end it exchanged an authoritarian regime for an authoritarian regime.

its ideas changed human history— far more, I will argue,

so France in the 18th century was a rich and populous country,

but it had a systemic problem collecting taxes because of

three years of high school French. [and Meredith the Interness]

France was deeply in debt thanks to their funding the American Revolution—

thank you, France, [also for Goddard and The Coneheads]

we will get you back in World Wars I and II.

And King Louis XVI was spending half of his national budget to service the federal debt.

Louis tried to reform this system under various finance ministers.

He even called for democracy on a local level, but all attempts to fix it failed and soon

This nicely coincided with hailstorms that ruined a year’s harvest,

thereby raising food prices and causing widespread hunger,

which really made the people of France angry,

Meanwhile, the King certainly did not look broke,

as evidenced by his well-fed physique and fancy footwear.

also got to live in the very nice Palace at Versailles

were challenging the whole idea of religion,

“The main point of enlightenment is of man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily

the intellectuals were beginning to wonder

whether God could or should save the King,

failing to make meaningful financial reform.

Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General,

the closest thing that France had to a national parliament,

The Estates General was like a super parliament made up of representatives from the First

Estate, the nobles, the Second Estate, the clergy,

The Third Estate showed up with about 600 representatives,

the First and Second Estates both had about 300,

“You know what? Forget you guys. [expletive deleted]

We’re gonna leave and we’re gonna become our own National Assembly.”

So when the new National Assembly left the room for a break,

"Sorry, guys, you can't go in there. And if you can't assemble, how you gonna be a national

the Third Estate representatives were able to find

they swore the famous Tennis Court Oath. [Like McEnroe? You can't be serious..]

And they agreed not to give up until a French constitution was established.

So then Louis XVI responded by sending troops to Paris

primarily to quell uprisings over food shortages,

but the revolutionaries saw this as a provocation,

so they responded by seizing the Bastille Prison on July 14th,

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The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29

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