The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29

In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of Terror? All of this and more contributed to the French Revolution not being quite as revolutionary as it could have been. France endured multiple constitutions, the heads of heads of state literally rolled, and then they ended up with a megalomaniacal little emperor by the name of Napoleon. But how did all of this change the world, and how did it lead to other, more successful revolutions around the world? Watch this video and find out. Spoiler alert: Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake." Sorry.

Chapters:
Introduction: The French Revolution 00:00
The French Declare Bankruptcy 0:41
Ancien Régime, Estates General, and the National Assembly 2:05
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen 3:16
Louis XVI, Marie Antionette, and the Women's March 4:00
The Jacobins 4:43
Austria and Prussia Intervene 5:35
An Open Letter to the Guillotine 6:48
Guillotines Galore 7:35
Napoleon Bonaparte 8:23
How Revolutionary was the French Revolution? 9:44
Credits 11:22

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[Lejo]

I just realized that this John Green is the same John Green who wrote 'The Fault in Our Stars'. My life is a lie.

[jinglemich]

2:15 No No No! The first estate was the *Clergy* not the nobles! First Estate Clergy, Second Nobles, Third everyone else (Peasants, Bourgeoisie).

[timmyl]

“So Robespierre, how many people are you gonna execute?”

Robespierre: “Yes”

[landofold]

"the people with the money never paid taxes" hmmm where have I heard this before

[margueritecazalsdefabel]

I'm French, and I've spent the last 21 years of my 21 year-long life trying to understand and learn all the regimes that went from 1789 until today and it is absolutely impossible

[pufflesfox]

Marie "I never actually said let them eat cake" Antoinette

[sophiadryden]

"which they did, because everyone is afraid of armed peasant women" 😂😂😂

[Handledgovernment]

Anyone else watching this for school during quarantine?

[bjtibbs]

I used to watch these in my AP classes. I'm not in these classes anymore, but I still love these videos. Especially now that I can learn about whatever I want.

[jake]

Who’s here 2019 for a test you haven’t studied for

Edit: Omg this comment blew up, ily guys keep up the grind for 2020 ✊🏻

Edit 2: Ok so it turns out 2020 is the end of the world basically

[gyohza]

"You did not take the dying out of execution" killed me. Uh, no pun intended.

[lailla]

AP exam tomorrow time to watch crash courses till I crash this course

[faytme]

The cake was a lie

-MARIE ANTOINETTE

[cmontgomery]

4:05 the creeper in the background... :)

[alicezozo]

Can't help but correct: the first estate was the clergy, the second estate was the nobilty*

[Its_llalalolo]

The first estate was actually the clergy the second estate was the nobility and the third estate was the bourgeoisie and the peasants

[therandomvlogger]

My world history teacher shows us your videos in class. You're awesome Crash Course!

[TheSpearkan]

It just occured to me that CC History has covered every notable European nation...

Except Poland...

[Arwen_xx]

Actually, Guillotine was against the death penalty, but, being unable to get rid of it, tried to make it more humane. He also tried to change the guillotine's name and his own names many times to disassociate himself from it.

[vleessjuu]

In my opinion, the most insane part of the French Revolution was the war in the Vendée. In a matter of just less than a year over 100, 000 (or more, depending on who you ask) people were killed in a geographic region of about 800, 000 people. Those numbers are just absolutely bonkers, especially in that age.