French Revolution Videos

Study the French Revolution using Online Video

Study the causes, events, and significance of the French Revolution from the storming of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon. Use these 2 online educational video titles to study the causes, events, and significance of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille by frenzied mobs in 1789 to the rise of Napoleon a decade later. Study the end of the French monarchy and aristocratic privilege, and the emergence of the common man and the democratic rights. Follow the course of the Revolution, from its reign of terror to the formation of a national state.

Learning Objectives:

• Trace the rise of European autocracies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
• Gain insight to the structure of French society prior to the outbreak of revolution.
• Discuss the symbolic importance of the storming of the Bastille by Parisian mobs.
• Follow the course of the French Revolution from the summoning of the Estates-General in 1789 to the Reign of Terror and the final collapse of the revolutionary government.
• Identify the political, economic, and social forces that lay behind the French Revolution.
• Survey the transformation of France from a nation ruled by the dictates of aristocratic privilege and an absolute monarchy to the rise of a government shaped by the bourgeoisie  and discuss the major social and political effects of the French Revolution, a turning point in Western civilization that witnessed the political emergence of the common man in Europe.

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• Estates and Assemblies (Runtime: 21:31)
• Girondists and Jacobins (Runtime: 20:14)