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In this programme Clive Emsley, Lecturer in History, talks about the factors which made the short period from the summer of 1793 to the end of 1794 one of the most crucial and most bloody phases of... the French Revolution. A main theme was the value of the paper money known as "assignats" which reflected the security or insecurity of the revolutionary regime. Another was the course of the war which the revolutionaries fought against the concert of royalist regimes formed against them by the rest of Europe. And a third is the rise and downfall of Robespierre with his policies for creating a "Republic of Virtue" which involved the guillotining of thousands of French men and women. All illustrations are from contemporary prints, and in the programme the presenter examines particular exhibts at the Musee Carnavalet, Paris including a set of gouaches generally accepted as near ey witness depictions of everyday events in the Revolution. Special filming in Paris attempts to recreate the physical environment in which the Sans Culottes lived and became revolutionaries and Clive Emsley also shows us the geography of revolutionary Paris from the east end and the Faubourg St. Antoine where the Sans Cullotes lived under the shadow of the Bastille, to the Place de la Concorde where the Guillotine did most of its work. The correspondence text includes a detailed map which relates to this part of programme.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: A202, The age of revolutions
Item code: A202; 02; 1973
First transmission date: 1973
Published: 1973
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Duration: 00:23:21
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Producer: Edward Hayward
Contributor: Clive Emsley
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): French revolution; Sans culottes
Footage description: Map of Paris Faubourgs (Montmartre, Saint-Germain, Saint-Michel, Saint-Marcel, Saint-Antoine) Shot of Paris tenement. Shots of streets and alleyways in the area. Clive Emsley describes the Sans Culottes. Contemporary drawing of sans culottes. Clive Emsley describes the events of 2nd June 1793- Route of the Sans Culottes is shown on map. Shot of Louvre. Clive Emsley sketches in the reasons for the Sans Culottes march on the convention of 2nd June 1793. Contemporary print of Sans-culottes outside Tuileries Palace. Shot of Place de la Concorde. Clive Emsley outlines the problems of the Republic in 1793 and the fate of the Girondins Contemporary drawings of the Levee en masse, Robespierre's words spoken over Clive Emsley, using contemparary gouaches housed in the musee Carnavalet describes the Levee en masse.
Master spool number: 6HT/70955
Production number: 00525_3071
Videofinder number: 2512
Available to public: no