The French Revolution: Everything you need to know

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🗓️ 18 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In the latest of our series tackling the big questions on major historical topics, historian Marisa Linton responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the dramatic events that engulfed France in the late 18th century. Topics discussed include the causes of the revolution, the role of Louis XVI and Mari Antoinette, and the bloodshed of the Terror. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine,
0:14.8	Britain's best-selling history magazine. I'm Ella Cawthorn. Today we have another of our everything you wanted to know
0:30.0	podcasts and this time it's on the French Revolution.
0:34.0	Our expert for today's conversation is Marissa Linton, Professor Emeritus in History at Kingston University
0:41.0	London, specialising in the French Revolution, 18th century politics and the Enlightenment.
0:48.0	Our production editor Spencer Mieson called Marissa to ask some of the most popular questions that people are searching for online about the French Revolution,
0:56.0	as well as some submitted by you on our social media channels.
1:00.0	Marisa, thanks for joining us today.
1:02.0	Thanks for inviting me? No problem, no problem. Marisa, thanks for joining us today.
1:02.5	Thanks for inviting me.
1:03.7	No problem, no problem.
1:05.7	Now, as always with our Everything You Ever Wanted to Know series,
1:09.6	our questions are drawn from a mixture of popular internet search queries and ones you've submitted
1:15.0	on our various social media platforms.
1:18.1	So, Mary, I think I'd like to start with one which was submitted on Facebook by L.J Horan and his question was
1:25.9	was the revolution inevitable and I guess you can kind of broaden that out to what are the
1:32.1	chief causes of the French Revolution.
1:34.3	Okay, the, I would not say that the French Revolution was inevitable because
1:42.0	very few people in France before the revolution was
1:45.7	anticipating that this would happen. In fact France seemed like a very strong and
1:51.0	powerful regime. It was the most powerful regime in Western Europe it was
1:57.6	wealthy or so it appeared it had a big army it was very stable, it seemed.
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