The French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte: Videos

I, personally, think Napoleon Bonaparte was a great man.

The French Revolution had many, many major players.

Many were fed to the guillotine for one reason, or, another.

Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Reformers; None escaped it’s terrible teeth.

But one man really took it to another level.

Dying empires don’t always stay dead…

Just like when Napoleon drank a full dose of poisoned elixir and survived.

Poetic…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon

Let’s Start at the Beginning…

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood

The French Revolution (90 Minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h3LZmErlUs

LibriVox AudioBook (6 Hours) The reader slows down after the preface.

PBS Documentary Videos 1-4 (180 minutes)

Discovery HD (90 Minutes)

Epic TV “The Napoleonic Wars” (Excellent Graphics and Visuals)

Please, post any literary recommendations you have in the comments. Thanks.

By Johnny ParatrooperPublished On: February 26, 2021Categories: History7 Comments

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Matt Bracken February 26, 2021 at 08:05

Drag the top video over to 1:07:00 to see why you do NOT want to be in a city when CW2 erupts.
On the spot “trials” and executions.
“In three days, 2,000 people are ‘executed’ in the prisons of Paris.” Etc.
- Johnny Paratrooper February 26, 2021 at 09:11
  
  O yeah. The French Revolution trials have been recreated in popular culture and theater dozens of times. In one of the more recent Batman movies there are several scenes where the main antagonists engage in farce trials that are very “French Revolution”. I didn’t notice until WELL after the movie was released what period of history they were using as source material. I just started studying the French Revolution last august. Fascinating history.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-dJPoSlPfU
  - NC Scout February 26, 2021 at 10:02
    
    Bane is a metaphor, at least in large part, for Robespierre.
    - Johnny Paratrooper February 26, 2021 at 10:19
      
      Is he? I only know Robespierre as the romanticized version I am taught briefly in class in the matter of a few paragraphs and a couple of his writings.. I should order a copy of his writings. Robespierre, and his Jacobin movement, had such vast effect on history it’s hard to measure.
      - Wallace the Reptilian Overlord February 26, 2021 at 12:08
        
        Napoleon was a tyrant, but at least he was a competent one. And he got rid of fiat currency. Robespierre really is romanticized by the modern intelligentsia. Most of the people in the French Revolution class I took last year considered him unduly maligned, and rationalized the actions of the Jacobins and even the Montagnard faction. I never thought I would find myself rooting for Catholic monarchists. But last year was full of surprises.
      - Johnny Paratrooper February 26, 2021 at 13:01
        
        Lmao. Napoleon was a product of his time. He was a great man, for sure in terms of a tactical genius and leader. He was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a hero of human rights. Though he claims he was. I respect the man for marching with his men every step of the way.
- Coop Willis February 27, 2021 at 22:23
  
  “Revolutionaries will be terrible with their enemies.” 300,000 people killed by “Hot Headed General?” Thousands drowned in the river.

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