Targets, Notes, Videos, & Handouts: Chapter 17 - The French Revolution

I have grouped these in 3 categories so this is easy to find everything you need. The first is just a shot and quick index of links to all the videos. Then below that I have the videos with descriptions. Then below the 'break' you can read more by clicking and actually seeing some of these videos embedded into the page. 

There is a ton of video that can definitely help you master this chapter of the text. 

Links to Everything:
Targets for Chapter 17 - Atlantic Revolutions & Their Echoes (Quiz on CH 17 is Tuesday, Jan. 28)

DBQ on Slavery, Revolutions and the Enlightenment. We will work on this during class some and it is a choice for the timed-writing DBQ on the 7th of Feb. 

Video: The French Revolution Documentary. We will watch this Mon-Fri in class with questions & discussion.
French Revolution Documentary Questions for discussion.

John Green's excellent pre-Crash Course videos on FR: 
Part I: "God and Grain" The French Revolution I
Part II: "Headless Monarchy" The French Revolution II
Part III: "The Reign of Terror" The French Revolution III

Crash Course for CH 17:
Crash Course World History: The French Revolution
Crash Course World History: Haitian Revolution
Crash Course World History: Latin American Revolutions

Comedy:
Horrible Histories: The French Revolution. (3:37) 
The French Revolution ("Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga) 
Napoleon ("Gone Daddy Gone" by the Violent Femmes)

Additional Great Video:
Student created video on The Haitian Revolution
Simon Schama's Power of Art: David Focuses on the painting called "The Death of Marat"




Links with descriptions:
Targets for Chapter 17 - Atlantic Revolutions & Their Echoes
DBQ on Slavery, Revolutions and the Enlightenment. Take Home Essay Due on Friday, 
February 8th. Same day as the test for Chapter 17.

Portion of the DBQ. We will work on it in class some this week and next.

Video: The French Revolution Documentary. On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage followed, bringing about the end of feudalism and the rise of equality and a new world order. The French Revolution is a definitive feature-length documentary that encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization. With dramatic reenactments, illustrations, and paintings from the era, plus revealing accounts from journals and expert commentary from historians, The French Revolution vividly unfurls in a maelstrom of violence, discontent, and fundamental change. King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, and Napoleon Bonaparte lead a cast of thousands in this essential program from THE HISTORY CHANNEL. Narrated by Edward Herrmann (The Aviator, Gilmore Girls), The French Revolution explores the legacy that--now more than ever--stands as both a warning and a guidepost to a new millennium

French Revolution Documentary Questions - to be answered while watching The French Revolution. These questions and the information from the documentary will be on the next test.

These next 3 videos are fantastic. These are pre-Crash Course John Green classics. I actually prefer them to the Crash Course version of the French Revolution, although that is pretty good, too.
Great videos to help you keep all the events of the French Revolution in order and context:

Part I: "God and Grain" The French Revolution I
Part II: "Headless Monarchy" The French Revolution II
Part III: "The Reign of Terror" The French Revolution III
These guys also made famous: DFTBA :)

Great fun video from "Horrible Histories: The French Revolution." (3:37) 
The French Revolution ("Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga) 
Napoleon ("Gone Daddy Gone" by the Violent Femmes)

Crash Course World History: The French Revolution. In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of Terror? All of this and more contributed to the French Revolution not being quite as revolutionary as it could have been. France endured multiple constitutions, the heads of heads of state literally rolled, and then they ended up with a megalomaniacal little emperor by the name of Napoleon. But how did all of this change the world, and how did it lead to other, more successful revolutions around the world? Watch this video and find out. Spoiler alert: Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake." Sorry.

VIDEO: Simon Schama's The Power of Art: Jacque Louis David. Born to a wealthy Parisian family, Jacques-Louis David was aged seven when his father was shot dead in a pistol duel. Brought up by his uncles, his desire was to paint and he was eventually sent to his mother's cousin, Francois Boucher, the most successful painter in France at the time.

Painting became an important means of communication for David since his face was slashed during a sword fight and his speech became impeded by a benign tumour that developed from the wound, leading him to stammer. He was interested in painting in a new classical style that departed from the frivolity of the Rococo period and reflected the moral and austere climate before the French Revolution.

David became closely aligned with the republican government and his work was increasingly used as propaganda with the Death of Marat proving his most controversial work.

"If there's ever a picture that would make you want to die for a cause, it is Jacque-Louis David's Death of Marat. That's what makes it so dangerous - hidden away from view for so many years.

I'm not sure how I feel about this painting, except deeply conflicted. You can't doubt that it's a solid gold masterpiece, but that's to separate it from the appalling moment of its creation, the French Revolution. This is Jean-Paul Marat, the most paranoid of the Revolution's fanatics, exhaling his very last breath. He's been assassinated in his bath. But for David, Marat isn't a monster, he's a saint. This is martyrdom, David's manifesto of revolutionary virtue."

Crash Course World History: Haitian Revolution. Ideas like liberty, freedom, and self-determination were hot stuff in the late 18th century, as evidenced by our recent revolutionary videos. Although freedom was breaking out all over, many of the societies that were touting these ideas relied on slave labor. Few places in the world relied so heavily on slave labor as Saint-Domingue, France's most profitable colony. Slaves made up nearly 90% of Saint-Domingue's population, and in 1789 they couldn't help but hear about the revolution underway in France. All the talk of liberty, equality, and fraternity sounds pretty good to a person in bondage, and so the slaves rebelled. This led to not one but two revolutions, and ended up with France, the rebels, Britain, and Spain all fighting in the territory. Spoiler alert: the slaves won. So how did the slaves of what would become Haiti throw off the yoke of one of the world's great empires? John Green tells how they did it, and what it has meant in Haiti and in the rest of the world.

Crash Course World History: Latin American Revolutions. In which John Green talks about the many revolutions of Latin America in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 1800s, Latin America was firmly under the control of Spain and Portugal. The revolutionary zeal that had recently created the United States and had taken off Louis XVI's head in France arrived in South America, and a racially diverse group of people who felt more South American than European took over. John covers the soft revolution of Brazil, in which Prince Pedro boldly seized power from his father, but promised to give it back if King João ever returned to Brazil. He also covers the decidedly more violent revolutions in Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina. Watch the video to see Simón Bolívar's dream of a United South America crushed, even as he manages to liberate a bunch of countries and get two currencies and about a thousand schools and parks named after him.


Video: The French Revolution Documentary.
Part I: "God and Grain" The French Revolution I


Part II: "Headless Monarchy" The French Revolution II


Part III: "The Reign of Terror" The French Revolution III


Simon Schama's Power of Art: David


Crash Course World History: The French Revolution. 

Crash Course World History: Haitian Revolution.


Crash Course World History: Latin American Revolutions.