Revolutions Season 3: The French Revolution by Mike Duncan

(Podcasts--History)

Started: December 19, 2021

Finished: 1st listening: January 6, 2022

               2nd listening: March 7, 2022

               3rd listening: October 8, 2022

(This is part of my journey through Revolutions Podcast, which I talked about HERE.  As I said in that post, I'm only going to do video reviews for the individual seasons, and then will put together a written review once I've worked my way through the whole podcast.)

Revolutions Season 3: The French Revolution by Mike Duncan: Review

I had already posted about this podcast back in April 2020.  But at that time I was skipping around a bit in the podcast to listen to the episodes that sounded most interesting to me.  This time around, I listened to the whole thing systematically, from start to finish, 3 times over.

The other stuff I've read/watched/listened to on the French Revolution is below.

History Books:

* For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and Their Revolutions by James R. Gaines

* Paine by John Vail

* The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm

* The First Total War by David Bell

* The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik

* Talleyrand by Robin Harris

* Danton by Frank Dwyer

* Robespierre by S.L. Carson

* Napoleon by Felix Markham

* Napoleon's Egypt by Juan Cole

* Napoleon by Leslie McGuire

Historical Fiction

* The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

* Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo

* The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France

Movies/TV shows

* La Révolution française (1989)--The French Revolution

* The Rose of Versailles

* Marie Antoinette (2006)

* The Affair of the Necklace

* Waterloo

Tangentially Related:

* The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (Thomas Paine wrote this during the French Revolution)

* War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Mike Duncan covers the Napoleonic Wars briefly as an epilogue)

Also.... Mike Duncan talks about the history of the Bourbon dynasty and Louis XIV's reign as background to explaining the circumstances of French politics in the 18th century.  For a fictionalized account of all this, see the Three Musketeers series:

* The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

* Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

* The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

* Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

* Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

* The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

See also:

* The Robespierre’s quote I mentioned in the video

* The Thomas Paine quote I mentioned in the video