A history podcast by @dhmontgomery covering France's overlooked century between Napoleon & World War I. Annotated transcripts online! @streamevergreen partner.
France, 1830
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Listening to @TheSiecle yet? Per listener reviews:
- "well-researched & incredibly in-depth"
- "thoughtful, clearly constructed scripts"
- "both amiable & authoritative"
- "the opening music slaps"
Links here! I suggest starting with Episode 1: thesiecle.com/start/
I heard people like election maps? Here's a thread of maps showing the results of 19th Century elections to France's Chamber of Deputies:
Want to learn more about all these elections — and more to come under France's new regime, the "July Monarchy"? Check out The Siècle! thesiecle.com
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Or if you want to learn more about how these Restoration elections worked — with a limited franchise and multi-day rounds of balloting — check out my explainer: thesiecle.com/supplemental16…
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Nervous about an undecided election as votes still come in? Check out the story of a huge opposition victory in legislative election where all the votes were counted 199 years ago: thesiecle.com/episode31/
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Two big views of Philippe Égalité:
1. That he masterminded the French Revolution with a goal of making himself king
2. There is no way *this guy* had the attention span or focus to mastermind himself out of a paper bag, let alone bring down a government
My latest podcast ep!
NEW EPISODE: Meet Louis-Philippe's father — the debauched, radical, lazy, scheming duke known to history as Philippe Égalité, whose tragic entanglement with the French Revolution would scar his son forever. A conversation with Will Clark of Grey History: thesiecle.com/episode52/
NEW EPISODE: Meet Louis-Philippe's father — the debauched, radical, lazy, scheming duke known to history as Philippe Égalité, whose tragic entanglement with the French Revolution would scar his son forever. A conversation with Will Clark of Grey History: thesiecle.com/episode52/
You can also watch this episode in video form, if you prefer! youtu.be/HXH-x3VpLUU?si=UPGL…
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Healthy or not, this isn't new! Politically engaged people in 19th Century Europe were intensely interested in what happened in other countries; in 1820s newspapers foreign news usually came *before* domestic news — even really big domestic news.
Here's the March 13 1815 Moniteur — DURING NAPOLEON'S MARCH ON PARIS (bottom right) — which leads with a speech from the Prussian king on constitutional reforms in Saxony & includes a verbatim transcript of a debate in the British House of Commons. Not even an exciting debate!
ALT The front page of the March 13, 1815 Moniteur Universel
To learn more about French newspapers during the Bourbon Restoration, check out Episode 22 of The Siècle: thesiecle.com/episode22/
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