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The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine

Gelesen von Peter Dann

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Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunate, though very natural, that the history of this Period has so generally been written in hysterics." Carlyle's own account of the prominent personalities and "two great movements" that dominate this phase of the revolution — "a rushing against domestic Traitors, a rushing against foreign Despots" — spares us none of the drama, yet is surprisingly compassionate and understanding from an author whose own society was riven with social inequalities that might conceivably have led to insurrection. Particularly memorable are Carlyle's portraits of Danton, Marat and Robespierre, and some brief, and ultimately decisive, appearances from one Napoleon Bonaparte. - Summary by Peter Dann (0 hr 44 min)

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Book 1, Chapter 1: The Improvised Commune

30:49

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Book 1, Chapter 2: Danton

11:21

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Book 1, Chapter 3: Dumouriez

8:58

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Book 1, Chapter 4: September in Paris

22:50

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Book 1, Chapter 5: A Trilogy

16:10

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Book 1, Chapter 6: The Circular

22:18

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Book 1, Chapter 7: September in Argonne

24:14

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Book 1, Chapter 8: Exeunt

17:08

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Book 2, Chapter 1: The Deliberative

24:55

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Book 2, Chapter 2: The Executive

9:52

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Book 2, Chapter 3: Discrowned

7:25

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Book 2, Chapter 4: The Loser Pays

6:42

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Book 2, Chapter 5: Stretching of Formulas

12:29

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Book 2, Chapter 6: At the Bar

20:03

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Book 2, Chapter 7: The Three Votings

14:17

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Book 2, Chapter 8: Place de la Révolution

16:13

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Book 3, Chapter 1: Cause and Effect

16:13

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Book 3, Chapter 2: Culottic and Sansculottic

13:25

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Book 3, Chapter 3: Growing Shrill

10:27

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Book 3, Chapter 4: Fatherland in Danger

20:17

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Book 3, Chapter 5: Sansculottism Accoutred

9:56

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Book 3, Chapter 6: The Traitor

10:06

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Book 3, Chapter 7: In Fight

6:48

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Book 3, Chapter 8: In Death-Grips

13:46

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Book 3, Chapter 9: Extinct

14:15

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Book 4, Chapter 1: Charlotte Corday

20:19

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Book 4, Chapter 2: In Civil War

9:18

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Book 4, Chapter 3: Retreat of the Eleven

10:40

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Book 4, Chapter 4: O Nature

12:30

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Book 4, Chapter 5: Sword of Sharpness

8:25

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Book 4, Chapter 6: Risen against Tyrants

10:31

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Book 4, Chapter 7: Marie-Antoinette

8:09

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Book 4, Chapter 8: The Twenty-two

9:20

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Book 5, Chapter 1: Rushing down

12:40

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Book 5, Chapter 2: Death

16:45

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Book 5, Chapter 3: Destruction

23:26

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Book 5, Chapter 4: Carmagnole complète

16:59

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Book 5, Chapter 5: Like a Thunder-Cloud

10:32

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Book 5, Chapter 6: Do thy Duty

17:52

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Book 5, Chapter 7: Flame-Picture

10:45

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Book 6, Chapter 1: The Gods are athirst

15:31

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Book 6, Chapter 2: Danton, No Weakness

15:02

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Book 6, Chapter 3: The Tumbrils

13:58

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Book 6, Chapter 4: Mumbo-Jumbo

9:54

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Book 6, Chapter 5: The Prisons

8:11

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Book 6, Chapter 6: To Finish the Terror

13:17

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Book 6, Chapter 7: Go Down to

19:23

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Book 7, Chapter 1: Decadent

10:32

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Book 7, Chapter 2: La Cabarus

11:53

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Book 7, Chapter 3: Quiberon

8:57

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Book 7, Chapter 4: Lion not Dead

9:54

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Book 7, Chapter 5: Lion Sprawling its Last

16:39

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Book 7, Chapter 6: Grilled Herrings

9:16

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Book 7, Chapter 7: The Whiff of Grapeshot

15:53

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Book 7, Chapter 8: Finis

7:28

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