[NeoCaveman]

I've often thought that we as Americans should apologize for putting a really bad idea in the heads of the French.

I hope to catch this History Channel show on rerun.

[captain_dave]

The worst thing about the French Revolution is it gave birth to the Metric System. The Metric System is crap and bull. Sure, everything is a multiple of 10, but the basic units are either too small or too big. Also, the units are not based on Man, but "scientifically" on the size of the Earth, or sum such thing. Look - we, Mankind, measure thing, not the dog next store, or the cat down the street. I'll stay with inches and feet.

Besides, the metric system was invented by the French. That enough of a reason to despise it.

[Loyal Buckeye]

I watched all but the last 15 minutes. Did it have a happy ending?

[lilylangtree]

Saw it advertised but didn't watch. Disgusted with the line: "Even you got to love the French for two hours."

[Logic n' Reason]

Marie Antoinette was a real hottie tho...

[headsonpikes]

Jacob Talmon's 'The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy' elegantly connects the dots between Rousseau and his brother French philosophes and their German Idealist successors, Hegel and Marx.

Not to mention the more existential connection of the French Revolution to Stalin, Pol Pot, and the other modern wholesalers of socialism and genocide.

The American and French Revolutions are competitors historically and intellectually, not allies.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Great thread and I agree with most of what has already been said on this thread. Looks like there will be chances to view or Tivo this program as I think it's going to be repeated this Saturday from 8 to 10 PM, Sunday AM from 12-2 AM and next Saturday from 9 to 11PM. http://www.historychannel.com/global/listings/listings_search.jsp

[HungarianGypsy]

What day was this on? We thought it was on Saturday, but wasn't on. Perhaps we messed up dates.

[af_vet_1981]

Robespierre, Marat and the rest of their gang were nothing less then brutal totalitarian mass murderers.

It was all General/President Washington's fault (see, not everything is President Bush's fault) for not reaching out to our European allies ...

[Beeline40@aol.com]

It was an excellent program. I have always been facinated with the French Revolution and the comparison to ours. It is still very shocking how many people were slaughtered in France at that time. I have a great book on the French Revolution and as good as the tv program was, it did not even come close to the madness.

[mass55th]

The program states that Marie Antoinette probably never said: "Let them eat cake."

But we know that a later French-speaking female elitist said: "Let them go naked."

[siunevada]

Just finished a nice little book - The Guillotine And The Cross - it seemed like a pretty well documented short history of the Reign of Terror, from a Catholic perspective, quoting the revolutionaries themselves from original sources. The active suppression of the Catholic Church to start with and all Christians as it played out was very interesting.

All I need to know is that Lenin mentioned the French Revolution several times as inspirational to the Russian Revolution.

[Rummyfan]

The results of the Fench Revolution? A pile of headless corpses and a tyrant!

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

when does it come on again?

[Aquinasfan]

The common attempt to link the American revolution and the French was certainly not present here. The differences couldn't be more blunt.

How did this slip through?

I was going to watch this last night, but I fell asleep. Doh! When's part deux?

[usmom]

I found myself amazed at the 'revolutionaires'
and their clear similarity to liberals today- totalitarian control of the press, destruction of all enemies, real or imagined, and and obsession with destroying and removing all religion from society and replacing themselves as the 'supreme beings'. I also found myself amazed at the fact that our own founding fathers were able to stage a revolution and not become drunk and corrupt with power like the French revolutionaries unfortunately did. The outcome would have been totally different for our country.

[mowkeka]

If I learned one thing from this program, it was that when the ELITES of the world get out of control, THE PEOPLE will react.
Perhaps we need to "French Revolutionize" the NY Times?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Sorry History Channel, I could not come to love the Frogs, even for two hours.

[Family Guy]

Bump for later.

[angcat]

My mom was telling me about this before I had my coffee this morning. I do remember her telling me someone had a crooked private part!