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  • French Revolution

  • A Captivating Guide to the French Revolution, the Life of Marie Antoinette and the Impact Made by Napoleon Bonaparte
  • By: Captivating History
  • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman, Duke Holm
  • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (56 ratings)

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French Revolution

By: Captivating History
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman, Duke Holm
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If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the French Revolution, then pay attention....

Two manuscripts in one audiobook:

  • The French Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Ten-Year Revolution in France and the Impact Made by Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Marie Antoinette: A Captivating Guide to the Last Queen of France Before and During the French Revolution, Including Her Relationship with King Louis XVI

Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include:

  • A brief history of the French monarchy
  • Philosophies of the times
  • France in the 18th century
  • Marie Antoinette, Madame Deficit
  • Taxes, famine, and the Enlightenment
  • Sieyes’ “What Is the Third Estate?”
  • The National Assembly
  • Death of the dauphin
  • Bastille Day
  • The first mayor of Paris
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man...and the Women’s March
  • France at War
  • The Flight to Varennes
  • Storming the Tuileries
  • The monarchy is outlawed
  • The fate of the colonies
  • The Louisiana Purchase
  • The Reign of Terror
  • The new French calendar
  • Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
  • In the days and years afterward
  • And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include:

  • An archduchess is born
  • Maria Antonia becomes Marie Antoinette
  • The dauphine
  • Queen at 19
  • A marriage at odds with itself
  • The issue of heirs
  • Madame Deficit
  • Count Axel von Ferson
  • The lost children
  • The diamond necklace scandal
  • Queen of fashion
  • The French Revolution
  • The October chapter
  • Anxious days at the Tuileries
  • An attempt to flee
  • Death of the monarchy
  • And much more!

Listen to this audiobook now if you want to learn more about the French Revolution!

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Well Written

Well written treatise of a tumultuous period in world history and the man at the center of it all. Amazing how this brief historical period so severely affected the world and European history.

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Recommended

I highly recommend this book if you want an overview of this period with enough detail.

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Nice and Informative

This book gives a wonderful overview of a tumultuous time in France's and Europe's history and sets the base for the deeper study of certain times or events should one desire.

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Very Informative

I thoroughly liked this book. In sharp contrast to so many other books out there on the French Revolution, this one read like a fast-paced action novel!

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Great Book

It was a great book. In a concise way, it revealed what the French Revolution was all about. Great writing for History students studying French History!

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Wrong title

This book is about Marie-Antoinette, not about the French Revolution or Napoleon. Good story, but wrong title.

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The Renaissance History

I really liked this book knowing very little about the French revolution before. He was a very audacious and lucky man until he let his ambition run away with him. A good audiobook.

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Interesting

It was very easy to get lost without an overview, and this book did the trick rather quickly and painlessly.

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Excellent

This is an excellent starter book for reading about la révolution in English. It is old, hence it being free or cheap, but the book is so short that there is little room for embellishment like one often finds in old scholarship, and Hazen takes a very straightforward approach.

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A worthy read!

The history of the FR in a terse and flavorful delivery. Well done. Great condensation of a complicated piece of world history.

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