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NFU Mutual Business Insurance. Welcome back again, everyone, to the discussion Will and I had in response to your many and

various questions about how the two revolutionary periods compare. Hope you enjoyed the first one.

And here then is the second in which we talk about how why the two revolutions progressed as they did,

and Will talks about a question which I was particularly interested

before this, whether the English influenced what happened in France at all. I hope you enjoy it,

and I'll start with just a very brief overlap from last time to get us into the swing of things.

It's fascinating how the different aims of revolutionary groups and trying to kind of just get that little bit more of what they're after ends up resulting in frameworks that either don't work or can't be implemented or don't have sufficient buy-in from enough of a coalition across society that it can actually kind of bed down and act as a solid foundation.

This leads us actually really well to the next question because what we're talking about

here is the inability of these revolutionary regimes to implement some of the values

that they had championed years before. And we had a question from a listener. This, a listener quoted historian David Starkey,

who states that revolutions reproduce the worst aspects of the regimes they replace. And the

listener wanted to know what are some of the examples from our two revolutions where the new

regimes are, you know, replicate

the faults of the old or perhaps even exceed them. Do you want to take this one first, David?

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