Lecture 08: A Tale of Two Revolutions

This lecture continues to explain why the French Revolution occasioned so many disasterous results and why it parted company with the American Revolution that had such a happy ending. The reasons for the fall of the Middle Class, the rise of the Jacobins, the reign of terror and the levee en masse, the Thermidorean Reaction and the dictatorship of Napoleon are all discussed. The vodcast version below does not contain quiz questions, as promised. A version of this vodcast (with questions) may be posted later.

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