God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I

[Haua (Projects Ningmaster)]

Designed by the amazing Karen Kavett: http://www.youtube.com/xperpetualmotion
In which John discusses the causes of the French Revolution and its initial events, including the French debt crisis under King Louis XVI, the convocation of the estates general, the rise of the third estate, the formation of the National Assembly, the tennis court oath at Versailles, the storming of the Bastille, the women's march, and the moving of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to Paris.

This is part of a four-video series designed to see whether we can make genuinely educational videos--the kind of videos that could actually help people learn the big and important things they have to learn in school. Nerdfighters gave us permission to make the videos longer than four minutes, so....no punishment. Let us know how we're doing.

[schnabeldame]

Just a tiny quibble - celibacy for priests of the catholic church in the 18th century was more of a guideline than an actual rule ... at least the normal priests usually had a family (they tended to be somewhat more strict with the upper levels). I love this video - and I am very excited to watch the next one!

[Maïa]

I'm going to see my the-same-shirt-every-single-day history teacher this monday and say to him that i want a lesson like this one! XD
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Finally not , he scares me OO

[Katie]

I had a test on the French Revolution a couple weeks ago, too! Curses. John makes learning (or in this case reviewing) so much more fun!

[JennaHemmena]

I had my test on the French Revolution like two weeks ago, DARN IT, this would have been handy!