The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire 1789–1815

Video and Podcast Links

"The French Revolution's Legacy"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547gg

Melvyn Bragg discusses the legacy of the French Revolution. What kind of a watershed did the French Revolution mark in the tide of history?

 

“REIGN OF TERROR: The French Revolution, Part III”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyZsLYxaIuM

The Vlog Brothers—John and Hank Green—give an overview of the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror,” 1793.Web Links

 

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The Unsung Heroes of Abolition: Toussaint L'Ouverture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/abolitionists_gallery_05.shtml

The BBC guide to the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, the leader of the largest ever slave result, which led to the formation of Haiti as an independent nation.

 

Mary Wollstonecraft (Mrs William Godwin)
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/opie-mary-wollstonecraft-mrs-william-godwin-n01167

The Tate Museum’s portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the earliest and most important British feminists (and mother of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley). This portrait was controversial in its portrayal of Wollstonecraft as intellectual and serious, which was not the norm for portraits of women.

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