3.13- The Rights of Man

Revolutions

Mike Duncan

History, Education

4.8 • 14.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

After the Night of August 4th, the National Assembly divided into new political factions.

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0:48.5	one of the more interesting and little-known characters from the French Revolution, Thomas
0:53.6	Alexandre Dumas, the father of the famous novelist.
0:58.2	Dumas was the Haitian-born son of a French nobleman and his African slave, who would go
1:03.6	on to live a pretty crazy life, rising to the rank of general and the revolutionary
1:08.2	armies, commander of the cavalry during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign.
1:12.6	He gets captured, he gets thrown in prison, and when he finally gets back, he shunned
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