An Idiot's Guide to the French Revolution
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Hello everyone!
Today I am joined by guest Mike Duncan, titan of the history podcasting world and host of Revolutions Podcast. Mike explained the French Revolution to me in the simplest terms possible to demystify this major historical event.
You can find Mike on Twitter @mikeduncan
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. This is a show that's brought to you by French Today audiobooks. If you visit their site French Today.com slash Earful 12, you'll get a further 10% off all of their audiobooks. Why don't you go and learn French right now? Maybe it's your new year's resolution. I'll be talking about them at the end of the episode. |
| 0:21.8 | But first, a little bit of a reflection. This year is almost over. When I think about it, |
| 0:26.7 | I realize a lot has happened. I'll talk a bit about that at the end of the episode. That's where I'll |
| 0:31.0 | talk about everything that's going on. But when you get into that kind of reflective spirit, |
| 0:35.1 | you start thinking about the history, the history of |
| 0:38.4 | the year, and you probably see where I'm going already with this. History is an interesting topic, |
| 0:43.6 | even if you're an idiot like me. So with that in mind, we're going to do an episode about history |
| 0:48.7 | today. I had the fortune of meeting today's guest, Mike Duncan, at my own book launch. Really recently we met, |
| 0:56.3 | we'd been back and forthing on Twitter a little bit and, yeah, he came along to the book launch. |
| 1:01.3 | It was lovely to actually have a chat with him there. And I said, you know what? I don't |
| 1:05.0 | know much about the French Revolution and I know you're an expert on it. Let me just put |
| 1:09.2 | things in perspective. You'll hear it in the episode. |
| 1:11.6 | I call Mike Duncan a Titan on the podcasting scene. |
| 1:14.7 | He has shows such as the history of Rome and revolutions. |
| 1:19.2 | Revolutions is might be what you're familiar with. |
| 1:21.8 | Most recently, he's also written books. |
| 1:23.5 | I'll talk about them in a second, but Storm Before the Storm. |
| 1:27.1 | And Citizen Lafayette is his current |
| 1:29.2 | book. We'll be talking about that in depth at the end of the episode, but we get chatting and I said, |
| 1:34.7 | look, I don't know anything about the French Revolution, which is pretty true. And I said, do you think |
| 1:39.0 | we could do an episode where you just explain it to me like an idiot's guide. And he said, Oliver, I'd be glad to. |
| 1:46.0 | And that's what you're about to hear. |
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