THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND THE GUILLOTINE

Episode 8 | Human History — Civilizations & EmpiresIn this History episode we focus on the French Revolution — the most important political event of the modern era, and one of history's greatest cautionary tales about what happens when a movement for freedom turns on itself.This episode covers the financial crisis and bread riots that sparked it, the Tennis Court Oath, the storming of the Bastille, the execution of Louis XVI, the Reign of Terror and Robespierre's rise and fall, and the coup that brought Napoleon to power as the revolution finally destroyed itself.The words Liberty, Equality, Fraternity are still on French government buildings. The revolution that produced them guillotined the people who first said them.#HistoryMystery #FrenchRevolution #ReignOfTerror #Robespierre #HistoryPodcast