SYMHC Classics: Women's March Versailles

Edwin Howard Armstrong isn’t exactly a well-known inventor, but his work in radio literally changed communications around the globe. But his most famous invention – FM radio – became a source of constant frustration after he developed it. Research: Armstrong, Edwin H. “Frequency ... Show More

Before the ballpoint pen, people used their hands, reeds, bamboo, brushes, quills, and eventually nibs to write or draw. But how did things evolve from there to get to things like the fountain pen, and eventually, a ballpoint? Research: "pen." Britannica Library, Encyclopædia Bri ... Show More

This 2022 episode starts with the story of John Bibb, credited with cultivating Bibb lettuce. But his family’s legacy, good and bad, is all tied to having enslaved people build their familial wealth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

By the summer of 1789 the different sections of the Revolution were at loggerheads, and the recently created National Assembly riven in two. Both factions, the radicals on the left and the more moderate revolutionaries on the right, upheld different interpretations of how the new ... Show More

The road to the French Revolution. The Bastille, the Tennis Court Oath, the Women's March on Versailles, the Great Fear, and Lafayette (yes, that Lafayette) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Fresh from storming the Bastille, the revolutionaries are coming for the royals at Versailles. Marie Antoinette avoids a massacre by clever use of a secret passage - but perhaps it’s time to flee the country altogether? A plan is hatched… but fate is against them.See Privacy Poli ... Show More

In the summer and Autumn of 1792 - with the Prussians bearing down on Paris, the streets thronged with the stirring swell of the Marseillaise, but also the rotting bodies of those brutally killed during the September Massacres - the French Revolution bore a new symbol of optimism ... Show More

Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, surnommée également « Madame Royale », est la fille aînée de Marie-Antoinette et de Louis XVI. Née à Versailles en 1778, elle est la seule de sa fratrie à avoir survécu à la Révolution. Condamnée à l’exil, elle est malgré tout restée très attach ... Show More

“It was violence that made the revolution revolutionary”. The storming of the Bastille is viewed by many across the world as a moment of celebration, when the French people were liberated from the shackles of tyranny and royal despotism. Yet, it was also a moment of horrific viol ... Show More

Welcome to Season 2 of The French Revolution! Revolutionary fervour threatens to engulf the streets of Paris, as demonstrators have gathered on the Champ de Mars to sign a petition demanding the removal of the King. Two days prior, the National Assembly had decreed that Louis XVI ... Show More

Quand la Révolution Française éclate, le destin de Marie-Thérèse de France, fille choyée de Louis XVI et de Marie-Antoinette, est complètement bouleversé. Suite à la mort de toute sa famille, celle qu’on a surnommé Madame Royale est forcée de partir en exil. Mais elle ne perdra j ... Show More

Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, surnommée également « Madame Royale », est la fille aînée de Marie-Antoinette et de Louis XVI. Née à Versailles en 1778, elle est la seule de sa fratrie à avoir survécu à la Révolution. Condamnée à l’exil, elle est malgré tout restée très attach ... Show More

The French Revolution is one of the great seismic events of global history. A devouring conflagration of bloodshed, violence and utopianism, it changed France and then latterly the whole of Europe forever. Yet, amidst the panoply of colossal, colourful names that defined this cat ... Show More