#77 Citizens by Simon Schama (Part 2)

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday!

We’ve got a different episode format for you this week; a book review of the 1989 classic chronicle of the French Revolution: Citizens by Simon Schama. We’ll be focussing on; the storming of the Bastille, the flight to Varennes of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and the fearsome guillotine.

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1:04.7	Hello and welcome to part two.
1:07.7	We are reviewing Simon Sharma's Citizens,
1:09.4	which is a chronicle of the French Revolution.
1:11.5	If you miss part one, was, of course,
1:16.9	the Storming of the Bastille, where we're now fast forwarding to 1791, and I talk about King Louis 16th and Marianne Antoinette. I would say most of my knowledge of Mariantoinette comes from the song
1:22.2	Killer Queen by Queen. Is that the same for you? I just think of a let them eat cake. Yeah, I would say all my
1:29.6	knowledge is really condensed into one sentence. And it's hugely pastry based. What a bakery
1:35.2	base, I suppose. Not like a pastry, is it? You know, she never said it. Did she not? No.
1:40.3	Yeah, who said that then? Paul Hollywood. Paul Hollywood.
1:47.7	It comes up again and again that people just hate her.
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