The French Revolution Part 1 | A Rising Storm | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Introduction and Setting 00:04:22 The Old Regime Machine 00:14:17 Royal Debt and the Price of Privilege 00:29:18 The Combustible Climate of 1788–89 00:39:37 Bold Ideas Go Public 00:52:26 From Crisis to the Estates-General Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @asmr_historian   Support the channel on Patreon:   / asmrhistorian   Merch: https://histmerch.shop/ Sources and Further Reading Gouverneur Morris (1939), A Diary of the French Revolution Arthur Young (1794), Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès (1789), What Is the Third Estate? Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762), The Social Contract John Adams (1785), Letter to Thomas Jefferson (22 May 1785) Honoré-Gabriel de Mirabeau (1789), Courrier de Provence writings Alexis de Tocqueville (1856), The Old Regime and the Revolution Thomas Carlyle (1837), The French Revolution: A History Simon Schama (1989), Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution Georges Lefebvre (1939), The Coming of the French Revolution Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.