PREVIEW: Epochs #44 | French Revolution
Mar 06, 2022, 01:00 PM
Beau and Carl chat about the French Revolution with regard to the early life and career of Napoleon Bonaparte. They discuss the political situation faced by Louis XVI and the intellectual situation as the revolution began; Voltaire, Rousseau, Burke. Then the events of the revolution itself, how it descended into tyranny and terror, and how it all ultimately played into the hands of ambitious military men.