#152: The French Revolution

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⚡️ "The British Comedy Challenge" starts Monday, 9th Nov: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/challenges/the-british-comedy-challenge--Italy builds Ferraris and Lamborghinis, welcomes millions of tourists, and produces food, fashion and design admired around the world. Yet beneath al ...  Show more

The French Revolution was a watershed event in world history that began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. During this period, French citizens radically altered their political landscape, uprooting centuries-old institutions such as the mon ...  Show more

Support the Podcast and Join my Patreon HERE -- https://www.patreon.com/thinkinginenglish CLICK HERE TO DONATE OR SUPPORT THE PODCAST!!!! - https://thinkinginenglish.blog/donate-and-support/ The French Revolution was one of the most influential events in modern human hist ...  Show more

“Liberté, égalité, fraternité!” Alongside violence, the French Revolution is a story of principles and values. It is the ultimate intersection of brutality and Enlightenment idealism, as epitomised by the Fall of the Bastille. So too the creation and implementation of the Declar ...  Show more