SYMHC Classics: Women's March Versailles

This 2014 episode covers the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, in which Native Americans rose up against Spanish colonists and missionaries at the turn of the 17th century.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Holly and Tracy talk about their coffee preferences. Then Tracy traces the path that led her from a listener mail to the topic of Fort Mose.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Fort Mose was the first officially sanctioned settlement for free Black people in what’s now the United States. It was established as a place where people who escaped enslavement in the U.S. could live in the Spanish territory of Florida. Research: Blumetti, Jordan. “The First Fl ... Show More

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.Join Legacy+ for ... 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

<p>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 att ... 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 vio ... 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 XV ... 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

<p>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 att ... Show More

À première vue, La Liberté guidant le peuple d’Eugène Delacroix semble tout droit sortie de la Révolution française de 1789 : une femme aux seins nus brandit le drapeau tricolore, une foule en armes avance sur des cadavres, et l’ambiance est à l’insurrection. Beaucoup s’imaginent ... Show More