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The Story of France: Revolution, Empire, and National Identity — Fexingo History — 197 episodes
Haussmann’s Paris: The Violent Birth of Modern Beauty
The Iron Prefect: Haussmann’s New Paris
The French Foreign Legion's Last Stand at Camerone
The French Foreign Legion's Bloody Dawn
The Tricolour’s Bloody Birth: From Bastille to Banner
The French Foreign Legion: Outsiders Who Made France
France's Lost Colors: The Tricolour's Bloody Birth
The Paris Peace Conference: Forging Modern Europe
The Paris Commune: France's First Red Experiment
The Paris Commune: France's First Red Experiment
The French Resistance: De Gaulle’s Shadow Network
The French Foreign Legion: Outsiders Who Made France
The Dreyfus Affair: France's Divided Soul
The Dreyfus Affair: A French Tragedy
The Two Presidents Who Shaped France's Fifth Republic
The Revolutionary Tribunal: Justice or Terror
The Napoleonic Code: Law That Shaped France
The Great Fear: Panic That Shook Rural France
The French Revolution's Food Crisis: Bread and Hunger
The Great French Wine Blight: Phylloxera and the Vine
The Great Tax Revolt: Gabelle and the Birth of Revolt
The French Revolution's Calendar: Time Without God
The Bastille Day Truce: France's Forgotten Armistice of 1914
The French Revolution's Metric System: A Measure of Change
The Great French Wine Blight: Phylloxera and the Vine
The Sun King's Silver: How Colbert Bankrolled Louis XIV
The Girondins: France's Forgotten Moderates
The Vel d'Hiv Roundup: France's Darkest Summer
Gustave Flaubert and the Trial of Madame Bovary
The Eiffel Tower: From Scorned Iron to Global Icon
The Thermidorian Reaction: France's Most Forgotten Coup
The Great Emu War: Australia's Feathered Foe
The Paris Commune: France's Radical Experiment in Self-Rule
The Vendée: Civil War in Revolutionary France
The Bastille: Myth, Memory, and the Storming of 1789
The Tuileries Palace: From Royal Residence to Revolutionary Stage
The Surrender of Napoleon at Sedan: A King's Lasting Stain
The Storming of the Tuileries: August 10, 1792
The Napoleonic Code: How France Rewrote Law
The Battle of Valmy: France's Decisive Victory Over an Empire
Marseillaise: The Song That Became France
The Birth of Versailles: From Hunting Lodge to Palace
The Fleur-de-Lis: France's Emblem of Kings
The Great Fear of 1789: When Panic Swept the French Countryside
The Battle of Valmy How a Ragtag Army Saved the French Revolution
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
The Fall of Robespierre: Ending the Reign of Terror
Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orléans: France's Turning Point
The Birth of the Tricolour: France's Revolutionary Flag
The Franco-Prussian War: How France Lost an Empire and Gained a Republic
The Eiffel Tower: France's Controversial Iron Icon
The Republic of Time: France's Revolutionary Calendar
The Louvre Opens Its Doors: Revolution and the Birth of the Public Museum
Olympe de Gouges: The Woman Who Demanded Rights in Revolutionary France
The Paris Commune: France's Bloody Week of 1871
The Dreyfus Affair: France's Battle for Justice
The Death of Printing: How France Tried to Regulate the Press
The Vichy Regime: When France Collaborated
The Femme Fatale of the Fronde: Anne de Montpensier at the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille: July 14, 1789
The Caning of the Prince: When France Humiliated Algeria
The Franco-Spanish War: How France Defeated Spain in 1648
The Sun King's War: The Nine Years' War That Broke France
The Estates General of 1789: How France's Last Medieval Parliament Sparked Revolution
The Franc Germinal: France's Revolutionary Currency Experiment
The Franco-Austrian Alliance of 1756: How France Alienated Prussia
The Abduction of the King: France's Flight to Varennes
The Levee That Saved Paris: The Great Flood of 1910
The Cult of Reason: France's Attempt to Abolish Religion
The Siege of La Rochelle: Cardinal Richelieu's Masterstroke
The Chappe Telegraph: How France Invented the Internet of 1792
The Banquet of the Gunners: How France Invented Artillery
The Napoleonic Code: How One Law Book Remade France
The Gallic Empire: Rome's Breakaway Province That Became France
The Bonfire of the Vanities: How One Burning Changed France
The Franco-Prussian War: How France Lost Alsace-Lorraine
The Dreyfus Affair: How One Spy Case Divided France
The Coup of 18 Brumaire: How Napoleon Seized Power
The Paris Commune of 1871: France's Last Revolution
The Woollen Cap That Became a Revolutionary Symbol: The Bonnet Phrygien
The French Resistance: Spies, Sabotage, and the Fight for Liberation
The Assassination of Henry IV: When France Lost a Good King
The Battle of Bouvines That Made France
The Franco-Spanish War: How France Outgrew the Pyrenees
The Insurrection of 10 August 1792: The Day the French Monarchy Fell
The Woman Who Brought Ballet to France: Catherine de' Medici's Cultural Revolution
The Champs de Mars Massacre: France's First Taste of Terror
The Panama Scandal: How a Canal Broke France's Third Republic
The Tuileries Palace: Where Kings and Revolutionaries Lived
The Rosetta Stone: How Egypt's Hieroglyphs Were Deciphered
Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign: Science, Sand, and the Rosetta Stone
The Hundred Days: Napoleon's Last Gamble from Elba to Waterloo
The Code Napoléon: How One Law Book Remade France
The Consulate: How Napoleon Became First Consul
The Frankish Kingdom: How Clovis United Gaul
The Vendée Uprising: France's Hidden Civil War
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy: France's Church Schism
The Women of the French Revolution: From Salons to Guillotine
The Franco-Flemish Puzzle: How the Low Countries Shaped France
The Fronde: When French Nobles Took Up Arms Against Their King
The Siege of Paris 1870 Starvation Balloons and the Birth of the Third Republic
The French Resistance: Ordinary Citizens Who Defied the Nazis
Victor Noir and the Père Lachaise Tomb That Became a Fertility Shrine
The Dreyfus Affair: How a Spy Scandal Tore France Apart
The Parisian Sewers: How France Built a City Underground
The Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace: Scandal That Toppled a Queen
Joan of Arc: From Domrémy to the Stake
Marseillaise: How a Battle Hymn Became France's Soul
The Real Story Behind France's Tricolour Flag and National Identity
The Great French Wine Blight and the Birth of Modern Viticulture
The Metric System: How France Measured the World
The Eiffel Tower: France's Iron Visionary
The Gregorian Calendar: How France Revolutionary Time Itself
The 1848 Revolutions and France's Second Republic
The Paris Commune of 1871: France's Bloody Civil War
The Storming of the Bastille: Myth, Riot, and Revolution
The Siege of La Rochelle: How France Broke Its Protestant Stronghold
The Palace of Versailles: From Hunting Lodge to Hall of Mirrors
The Napoleonic Code: How One Man's Laws Shaped Modern France
The Marquis de Lafayette: France's Hero of Two Worlds
The Great French Wines That Survived Phylloxera
The French Foreign Legion: Outcasts, Empire, and the Battle of Camerone
The Battle of Valmy: How France's Revolution Survived Its First Test
The French Resistance: Myth, Memory, and Liberation
The Paris Catacombs: When France's Dead Made Room for the Living
The Canals of France: How Waterways Built a Nation
The Dreyfus Affair and the Birth of Modern Intellectuals
The Guillotine: France's National Razor and Revolutionary Terror
The Wine of France: How Vineyards Shaped Revolution and Identity
Bayeux Tapestry: How 70 Metres of Linen Told the Story of 1066
The Battle of Bouvines: How France's First National Victory Forged a Kingdom
The Fronde: When France's Nobles Fought the Crown
François Mitterrand's Grands Travaux: A President's Monumental Legacy
The Eiffel Tower: From Controversy to Icon
The Palace of Fontainebleau: Napoleon's Farewell and the End of an Era
Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign: Science, Sand, and the Rosetta Stone
The Croissant: How Austria's Pastry Became French
The Women of the Paris Salon: How They Shaped French Culture
The CanCan: How a Scandalous Dance Defined Belle Époque France
The Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris and the Birth of Modern France
The Albigensian Crusade: How France Conquered the South
The Siege of La Rochelle: Cardinal Richelieu's Masterstroke
The Concordat of 1801: Napoleon's Peace with the Church
The Tricolour: How France's Flag Was Born in Revolution
The Napoleonic Code: How One Man Rewrote France's Laws
The Palace of Versailles: How Louis XIV Built a Golden Cage for the Nobility
The Storming of the Bastille and the Birth of Popular Revolution
The Dreyfus Affair: France Divided by a Spy Scandal
The Château de Chambord: Renaissance Ambition and Empty Grandeur
The Fronde: France's Civil War of Nobles Against the Crown
The Assassination of Jean Jaurès: France's Lost Peace
The White Terror: France's Post-Revolutionary Vigilante Violence
The Champ de Mars Massacre: How France Turned on Its Own Revolution
The Cagot: France's Forgotten Outcast People
The Paris Commune: France's Last Revolutionary Experiment
The Vendée: France's Forgotten Civil War
The Hundred Years War: Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orléans
The Paris Parlements: How Judges Defied the King Before 1789
Concorde and the Red Flag: The Paris Accords That Shocked France
The Clovis Conversion: Baptism That Made France
The Battle of Bouvines: France's Founding Victory
The First Voyage: Jacques Cartier and New France
The Dôme des Invalides: Napoleon's Tomb and Military Glory
The Ancien Régime: How France Was Ruled Before 1789
The Napoleonic Code: How One Man Rewrote France's Laws
The Sinking of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kébir
The July Monarchy: Louis-Philippe and the Bourgeois King
The Franco-Prussian War: France's Humiliation and the Birth of a Republic
The Eiffel Tower: Engineering Triumph and National Icon
The Tuileries Palace: Royal Home, Revolutionary Stage, Communard Ruin
The French Resistance: Myths, Realities, and the Liberation
The Second Flame: France's 1944 Liberation
The Canigou Flame: A Symbol of Catalan France
The Dreyfus Affair: France Torn Apart by a Spy Scandal
The Women of the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges and the Guillotine
The Siege of Paris 1870: Starvation, Rats, and Defiance
The School Wars: How France Fought Over Laicité
The Paris Peace Conference: France and the Treaty of Versailles
The Carnation Plot: Napoleon's Secret Return from Elba
The Marseille Trilogy: How a City Defined France
The Vichy Regime: France's Darkest Hour
The Albigensian Crusade: How France Conquered the South
The Paris Commune: France's Bloody Spring
The First Estates General: 1302 and the Birth of French Representation
The Storming of the Bastille: Myth and Reality
The Battle of Bouvines: France's Forgotten Founding Moment
The Gallic Rooster: France's Feathered National Symbol
The Paris Opera House: Napoleon III's Architectural Masterpiece
The Champs de Mars Massacre: When Revolutionary Ideals Turned Deadly
The Napoleonic Code: How One Man's Laws Still Shape France
The Fronde: When French Nobles Took On the Absolute Monarchy
The French Resistance: Ordinary Heroes of the Dark Years
The Assassination of Jean Jaurès and the Road to War
The Dreyfus Affair: France Divided
The French Revolution's Reign of Terror and the Cult of the Supreme Being
Joan of Arc: The Maid Who Changed France