Hello and welcome to Revolutions.

Episode 3.7 of Cial's Royale

Last week we stepped away from the financial crisis that was busy rocking the ASEAN regime

to take a look at the wider world of international politics, diplomacy and war that the French

revolution was about to explode into the middle of.

And as I kind of suspected what happened, in trying to mash that much information into

that small of a box, I flubbed a few details along the way.

So we get to start with two quick corrections.

One from listener Joe, when I was talking about the major political turnover in Russia

at the end of the Seven Years War, I should not have said then the old Tsar died.

Because it was not some dude who died at the end of 1761, it was in fact the Empress

Elizabeth, my apologies to Empress Elizabeth, for confusing her with some dude.

Second, as a number of listeners pointed out, Frederick the Great had no children.

Of course he had no children, it's actually a whole little sub-chapter of Prussian history

all atone.

So I should have said that his successor, Frederick William II, was not quite the man

his uncle was.

Because Frederick William II was Frederick the Great's nephew, not his son.

Though while I'm here, I may as well throw in that Frederick William II will get to style

himself King of Prussia, rather than King in Prussia, because his uncle Frederick the Great

did arbitrarily assert a preposition change round about the first partition of Poland.

Okay, so getting back to the main story, we left off two weeks ago with the ousting of

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