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During the late years of the eighteenth century, the spirit of Enlightenment thinking and revolution were in the air. The world was changing, moving away from ingrained beliefs about religion, reason, society, and the rights of the individual and turning more towards the laws of nature as interpreted by the scientific method. Nowhere was the influence of this radical new way of thinking more apparent than in France, and the upheaval this caused would come to bloody fruition in the form of revolution.

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Israel Drazin
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent information about an important part of history
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This book, although short, gives readers all the essential information about an important part of history. It is fascinating to read the book and compare the US revolution to that in France. In the book, we read about the age of enlightenment, the three estates in France in the late 1700s, the rise of the third estate, the concept of the rights of man, what was the revolution, the people involved in the revolution and what prompted them, people killed during the revolution, the trial of the royals, the reign of terror, and the legacy that still exists today.
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I think it is difficult do do this kind of history. Obviously important material is not here...but it is a concise history and I think this volume does a really nice job of selecting key points in the narrative.

As someone who does historical research, I think this work is great for background or peripheral knowledge. It won't make anyone an expert on the French Revolution...but that isn't the goal of a one-hour history. It will provide a student or teacher with a nice framework for digging deeper into this most important historical event. Who are the key players? What was the sequence of events? What are some of the principle causes and effects? For the more casual reader, this is the perfect easy read for some one who just likes history and wishes they'd paid more attention in school.
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I was completely pleased with this one hour summary of The French Revolution. Obviously there are volumes written on this period of history. Upon beginning this work I was slightly skeptical that a one hour summary could be adequate. However I have previously read numerous "One Hour History" works and almost always found them to be of high professional quality. This is again the case with this work.

I read the summary on Kindle while listening simultaneously on audiobook. I found both versions completely satisfactory. Some excellent writing can be difficult to only listen to. It is my belief that I could have strictly listened to this work and comprehended most of it. Most do need to qualify that statement by saying that I have previously studied The French Revolution and therefore this may have made listening easier. I can't be sure of that, but I felt the audiobook was very clear.

In summary, I was completely pleased with this work. It is a summary, but that is clearly indicated by the term "One Hour History". I am generally a fan of these specific "One Hour History" products. One can get a decent general idea of what the story is and then, should one chose, select various parts for further study, Thank You....
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I have just finished reading The Scarlet Pimpernel and I wanted to review just what had happened during the time the story was set. I haven’t reviewed the French Revolution since high school and this book gave an excellent synopsis of the time. It is clear, concise, and interesting .
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3.0 out of 5 stars Brief and clear in plain English, but no more than an old "textbook" history of the Revolution
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This review is working as the next sequence of my previous book review of the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War), followed by the long Goodreads review of the Thirty Years’ War.

(Kindle Ed. pp. 3-4)
..."Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God," and "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety,"...Across the Atlantic, Enlightenment thinking had inspired the thirteen American colonies to revolt against British rule by refusing to abide by taxation passed without representation among other injustices...made him a popular figure in France when he visited as America's diplomatic representative to secure aid from the French government. The French monarchy contributed more than a billion livres, troops, and naval support to support the American Revolution...

These famous American dictums popular in France at the same time prove the American Revolution did influence the French Revolution. But I don't understand; why did the French monarch support the American Revolution? Because it wasn't about the ideas, but about the hegemonic struggle between the French and British. Like I said in the reviews of the History of Thirty Years' War, the ideas and cause were only to hook and win the people's support. It was the decision makers who actually initiated the war for power.

(Kindle Ed. p. 4)
...It is assumed that this generosity was based in large part on King Louis XVI's hatred for England after the English took over most of France's colonial territories, including Canada, France's foothold in the New World, in the Seven Years War. Another motivating factor was the possible recovery of those territories should the Americans prove successful. An army of French soldiers and a large French naval fleet would play deciding roles in the American struggle for independence, particularly the French naval blockade against the dominant British navy and the French forces that took part in the eventual British surrender at Yorktown...

And as always…not always, but many times, the exact lines that support my analysis follow right behind.

(Kindle Ed. p. 5)
...the example of successful revolution were well received by the French citizens who were struggling under the inept and extravagant rule of King Louis XVI.

So the loss of the global hegemony to Great Britain was the real cause of the downfall of French monarchy, like that of Habsburg-Spain was due to the rise of Bourbon-French monarchy.

(Kindle Ed. p. 6)
...Beyond the money and the expenses of providing personnel, military and naval support to support the American revolutionaries, the French treasury was severely strained by the losses sustained during the Seven Years War, as well as the exorbitant debt incurred by the monarchy during the reign of the king's father and his grandfather, who had spared no expense redesigning the royal hunting lodge in the forest around Versailles into one of the largest palaces in the world simply because he wanted to get away from the stress of life at the palace in Paris...

So this review is to see how the French global domination declined, while that of the Thirty Years’ War was to see her rise.

(Kindle Ed. p. 6)
The tense situation was only exacerbated when bad weather and poor harvests in the mid-1780s caused a food shortage. Most damaging was the shortage of bread, which was the main source of food for the poor peasants of France. It was the traditional responsibility of the king to make sure the peasants had an adequate supply...

It was clearly a form of a harsh economic recession to the people like the Great Depression between the First and Second World Wars. And like I pointed out in the long review of the Thirty Years’ War, the daring and risky uprisings happen when the situation is turbulent under the old master’s rule.

(Kindle Ed. p. 7)
...Food prices soared as supply was even scarcer and the overtaxed citizens of the Third Estate, which made up ninety-eight percent of the total population, were starving and angry. Change was inevitable, and when it came, it was terrifying.

(Ibid, p. 8)
The first estate consisted of the clergy, including all churches and all of the king's clerics. The clergy was exempt from paying any taxes due to their religious standing. Citizens were required to pay a tenth of their income to the church as tithes that maintained the lifestyle of the First Estate.

Yet France fought on the side of the Reformation in the early First Global War. That's why I say it wasn't really a religious war, but the most secular war in history. Look, until the era of Science really kicked off, the clergies were the people of knowledge due to their position as the mediators between the Heaven and Earth. Before the advent of Christianity it was the Shaman priests and priestesses called the wizards and witches.

Anyway the rule of these religious leaders in France too was about to end with the decline of the French hegemony.

(Kindle Ed. p. 9)
...The Second Estate consisted of France's aristocracy, those considered to be of noble birth. This group also did not pay taxes, except during wartime, and even then it was usually not enforced. As many in the aristocracy were also landlords and owners of mills, wine presses, and bakeries, the common people were required to pay rent on land they farmed and taxes on the equipment they used, and this money maintained the lifestyle of the members of the Second Estate.

What's so funny and sad about the reality, I’ve found reading these lines, is people do not underline the clergies’ corruptions, but only the noble aristocracies’. Religion still rules the world. It will never go away as long as we the Humans remain emotionally dependent.

(Kindle Ed. pp. 9-10)
The Third Estate included merchants, artisans, peasants, and all the rest of the working class. This group carried most of the tax burden of the nation. In difficult times when harvests were poor, the taxes were devastating and peasants would often starve to death during a harsh winter. The system set up rigid classes of people and allowed for very little mobility. Generally, a person was expected to live as a member of the class into which they were born. Members of the Third Estate were blocked from holding even the lowest position of power in government that would allow them to improve quality of life. It was also impossible for the Third Estate to make changes within the law to better their situation, because the first two Estates together held the power to overrule any changes that would negatively affect their wealth and power...

Sounds familiar? This is why the Protestants had to fight the old-established Catholic rules in the European wars of religion, a significant part of which is known to us as the Thirty Years’ War, so that they could have more lands under their new titles, which also led to more seats in Diet to give them more chance to make laws and rules.

(Kindle Ed. p. 11)
...All three pushed for reforms to economic and judicial policies, reflecting the general depression in the economy, but the Third Estate wanted major policy changes, including equal representation in government as opposed to the upper classes having all the power and none of the tax burden. Predictably, the three groups could not agree on reforms that would take power and privilege away from the clergy and aristocracy. Frustrated by the stalemate, the Third Estate met separately and formed the National Assembly to formulate their goals for the meeting of the Estates General. They took on the task of writing a new constitution for France...

Seriously what's the difference between the conflict of the Thirty Years' War and this one?

(Kindle Ed. pp. 11-12)
...the King, concerned by the direction the National Assembly was heading, especially with regard to taxes, ordered the building they had been using as a discussion space to be locked in an attempt to block the meeting. The group rightly feared that this was a precursor to ending the meeting of the Estates General without effecting any changes...

(Ibid, p. 12)
...what would become to be known as the "Tennis Court Oath," vowing not to disband, even if the King ended the formal assembly of the Estates General, until they had achieved the constitutional reform...

(Ibid, p. 12)
...Because many of the representatives of the clergy and the nobility joined the cause, King Louis was forced...

It was just like the Peace of Westphalia forced upon the German Emperor at the end of the European wars of religion (1524-1648) and the Dutch War of Independence (1568-1648).

(Kindle Ed. p. 10)
As a further step in the plan to deal with the worsening economic situation and public unrest...

French economy was really in a muddy pit at the time, and no one can deny that it was the ultimate cause of the Revolution.

Here’s a lesson for our time: You can’t say China can’t be a threat for global instability or possible future war because its growing economy is getting unstable. The unstable economy is the reason why the rising power, with a lot of expectations from the people and promises from the leaders, is the biggest potential initiator of the next global war.

The French Revolution was part of the Second Global War, where Great Britain toppled the old French global dominance with the new order called the Congress of Vienna, which would work as the base for the European Imperialism until the rising German unification and challenge whose consequence was the breakout of the Great War in the early-20th century.

In the 18th century the century-old global hegemon France’s army was the best in Europe at the time. It was like today's U.S. military in the world stage.

(Kindle Ed. p. 33)
Not long after, in September 1792, the French military at last achieved their first major victory and pushed back an invasion of allied Austrian and Prussian forces near the northern town of Valmy. After being cut off from their supply lines by some clever maneuvers on the part of the French army, the Prussian infantry forces found themselves in a battle with the canons of a well-placed French division...

Besides the advanced weapons, equipments, tactics and training the French army also found her new advantage in numbers thanks to the Revolution.

(Kindle Ed. p. 34)
In 1793, several more nations became involved in the war. Spain, the United Provinces, and Great Britain joined Austria and Prussia in the First Coalition against the French Revolutionary government. The Legislative Assembly responded to this by declaring a levy en masse, meaning all Frenchmen were to be at the disposal of the French army. This tactic allowed the French to raise large armies quickly in order to fight off the impressive group of powers arrayed against them. The armies that took the field were in fact, larger than those typically seen in Europe up to this point.

The biggest difference of the First Global War from the other global wars was its mercenary soldiers, and the concept of the massive “sovereign-citizen” forces emerged with the Revolutions in America and France in the late-18th century firmly settling through the following Napoleonic War in the early-19th century causing the unification of Italy and Germany in the mid-19th century.

(Kindle Ed. p. 32)
..."Chant de guerre pour l'Armee du Rhin," or, in English, "War Song for the Army of the Rhine". This song, with its stirring call to protect the homeland, soon became the anthem of the French Revolution. The name was changed after a group of volunteer citizen soldiers...

It was the era of contract-based loyalty under the old feudal order no more. Finally the era of modern nationalism and patriotism was born. Now not just the professional mercenaries fought the war, but all the citizens felt the duty to fight for their nation.

And as I expected the book loses one star here.

(Kindle Ed. pp. 33-34)
...Unexpectedly, and seemingly miraculously to the French, the Prussian army broke off the attack and left the field. The invading force managed a hasty circuitous retreat and was pushed back well beyond the border of Rhine river. The famous German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was with the Prussian army and witnessed the rout. Writing about the event, Goethe stated to his comrades, "From this place, and from this day forth begins a new era in the history of the world, and you can all say that you were present at its birth." Indeed, the French army did take full advantage of the change in the tide of war. The retreat of the Austrian and Prussian army allowed French forces to push into Germany and Belgium and capture important territories there.

Just like I pointed out in the previous review Samuel Gardiner’s “Thirty Years’ War”, people believe it was a miraculous victory because the “renowned” writer Goethe said so. He, like a good writer, was just being emotional watching that victorious “citizen” volunteers singing patriotic songs, and that was, yes, something no one at the time had ever seen before in the good, old European Continent.

However, he wasn't a military expert. The French military leaders and their equipment were still the French, the best in Europe at the time, and especially the French artillery was the best in the world.

The old "grand armée de la France" with a talented commander, Napoleon Bonaparte, was of course prevailing over all other armies of Europe. We often forget that it was Napoleon’s French Empire, not Great Britain, the newly-born United States purchased the massive land of Louisiana territory from. Despite the losses of her colonial territories to Great Britain during the Seven Years’ War, French Empire still had one of the biggest overseas territories among all the European powers.

(Kindle Ed. pp. 50-51)
...although the country continued to war with her neighbors, the French army now met with unprecedented success. By the spring of 1795, France had been victorious against the allied forces of the coalition on every front. The French army had pushed into territories around Amsterdam and the Rhine, and even into the Pyrenees. Prussia, one of the first nations to take up arms against France, had been forced to leave the coalition and already signed a separate peace treaty with France. With the French army threatening coalition positions in northern Italy, General Napoleon Bonaparte was given command. Napoleon was able to force Austrian and Sardinian forces in Italy to sign the treaty of Campo Formio ceding the Austrian Netherlands to France and creating the Cisalpine and Ligurian republics in Italy. This success was followed by the establishment of republican regimes in Rome, Switzerland, and the Italian Piedmont. Unfortunately for France, Napoleon’s string of successes would end when Admiral Nelson and the British fleet destroyed the French navy in Egypt at the Battle of the Nile.

You can find the detailed story of the Great Battle of Trafalgar (1805) in my book Admiral Lee and the First Global War.

(Kindle Ed. p. 55)
...Enlightenment philosopher Thomas Hobbes, "Men look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow..."

So I wrote the books of new history to understand and prepare our future better and right.

Lastly there are some facts we learn from this significant history.

(Kindle Ed. p. 17)
...The commander was beheaded, possibly by a baker using a small bread knife, and his head was placed on a pike and paraded around the city as a symbol of the victory.

(Ibid, pp. 21-22)
...Previously, common people were often executed on the breaking wheel, which had originally been designed as a torture device, or they were hanged. Beheading via axe or sword was a method of execution reserved for condemned aristocrats as it was thought to be less painful and more dignified, even though it often required multiple strikes from the headsman before the head was removed and the execution complete. Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin, himself an opponent of capital punishment, recommended several changes to the practice of execution, including that all condemned criminals, regardless of status or crime, would be executed humanely in the same manner...

This kind of brutality was still a norm, not only in France, but in the globe in the 18th century.

(Kindle Ed. p. 19)
...and the right to property.

So democracy does come with capitalism...inseparable.

(Kindle Ed. p. 25)
..."Man, are you capable of being fair? A woman is asking: at least you will allow her that right. Tell me? What gave you the sovereign right to oppress my sex?"...

She should have called for the very fairness not based on sex, but on intelligent, insightful capability of individuals who could pick the right leaders as their representatives not to ruin their own kids' future.

(Kindle Ed. p. 26)
...Olympe de Gouges also spoke out for all who had been left out of the promise of equality, including women and slaves. Her plays spread the ideas of women's rights and the rights of black slaves throughout Europe and even into the newly created United States of America. Because her writing was critical of the National Assembly, even though supportive of their ideas, she was accused of treason. She was convicted and executed along with many other so-called "enemies of the state" by guillotine during the period of the Reign of Terror.

What a great revolution...it was used for those who wanted to grab the power by hooking up the population using not their reason and conscience, but their agitated emotion. They were only the replacement of the old rulers, nothing more, nothing less. Seriously do we learn nothing from history?

I find this book cliché, blindly following the earlier opinions of the old historians.

(Kindle Ed. p. 41)
The execution of Louis XVI was the first time a monarch had been tried and executed by his own people. The King was dead; long live the Revolution. There was no turning back.

Then what was the English King Charles I's execution? And no turning back? Where did go Emperor Napoleon I, three following French monarchs and one more French Empire, which lasted until the country was beaten by a foreign power in 1870?

We tend to be excited and proud of Revolution as we’ve been taught that way, but I wouldn’t support the following events just because it was the people’s Revolution.

(Kindle Ed. p. 45)
The violence became extreme to the point that failing to wear tricolor ribbons showing support for the Revolution or even using the wrong form of address—the outdated Madame or Monsieur instead of the new title, "Citizen,"—when speaking was justification for immediate arrest and execution. The mob now saw popular violence as a political right and thus an immediate expression of patriotism. One of the worst moments of this violent expression was the prison massacre that occurred in September 1792. A mob of citizens dragged around two thousand prisoners, including priests and nuns, from their cells and summarily executed them...

What's the difference between this and life in North Korea?

(Kindle Ed. p. 46)
As the death toll rose, public executions became a popular event with the citizens of Paris. They were considered entertainment, attracting large crowds to the renamed Place Louis XV, now called the Place del la Revolution, where the guillotine held grim pride of place. Vendors in the crowds sold programs listing the schedule of executions taking place throughout the day. Many families brought children to witness the violent events...

This sounds just like the forced reforms in North Korea calling any resistance defending their possessions they had earned with honest, hard work “counter-revolutionary criminals.”
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Gordy A.J.
5.0 out of 5 stars History in an hour!
Reviewed in Canada on February 9, 2023
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Very clear and concise. Increased my understanding of the facts and consequences of the revolution.
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Claude Medeot
5.0 out of 5 stars French Revolution
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A quick read in an hour or two which covers the essential parts of the French Revolution. It is a good refresher for those who have read this history when they were young. I enjoyed reading it because it did just that - refreshed my mind and then enabled me to relate those facts with some of the politics happening now in America with the Biden Crime Family
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Good & short not too many details - which is good doesn’t confuse the reader .
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Edgar Thorell
5.0 out of 5 stars French Revolution
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Sempre interessante quando se revisa os acontecimentos históricos, como os ocorridos na "Revolução Francesa" (French Revolution), assim como mantermos vivos a compreensão da língua inglesa.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great summary of the French Revolution
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2019
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A short but fascinating summary of the French revolution. Highly recommended read on events in France that changed the world forever.
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