Quelle aventure : la révolution française (Documentaire)

It is curious that!

Why did I have this nightmare?

The guillotine ?

There is surely a connection with the French revolution.

Zap yourself in 1789.

Well done the zappette.

I think we have hit the nail on the head.

Good day ladies and gentlemen. Where are you going with such a good step?

Come with us my boy you will understand! - Are you going to a wedding?

- To a wedding ?

I would rather say to a divorce.

I don't know where you come from, but we are hungry!

For 2 years, between floods, drought and hail, the harvests are catastrophic and the price of bread has increased by 50%!

- At this point! - And with all that we have to pay: to the nobles, to the church and to the king how do you want us to eat?

- But who are you going to divorce? With your forks? - With privileges!

With this regime which assails us of taxes!

You don't seem to be aware of it, but it gets hot everywhere. In Brittany, in Burgundy, in Alsace, in Provence ... Come with us, we go up on the capital!

- Why are they all getting mad?

Because we are coming to our good lord, the aristocrat.

We will tell him 2 words in passing.

We will explain to him that it is not good to ask us for what we cannot give him.

And that cannot last!

- And if I understand correctly, you want the king's head. - The king ? We have

nothing against him! We like him. But

it has to change!

- So there, I don't understand anymore ...

They don't know what they want!

- Think again. On the eve of the revolution, the people do not demand the head of the king. Does he just want to limit his powers and end injustices and inequalities.

Because Louis 16's France lives under a feudal regime. The people, finally the third estate as it is called, crumbles under the weight of the taxes paid to the king, to the lords and the clergy.

And during this time, at Versailles, we lead a great life.

Some nobles even receive fine pensions, such as Countess of Polignac, who receives five hundred thousand pounds a year It's a thousand times the wages of a worker!

And yet the coffers of the kingdoms are empty.

This bankruptcy is due especially in support of France in the American Revolutionary War.

La Fayette and his friends were expensive to fight against the English.

In short, we must find money. The ministers of the king including Necker, proposes to make pay the tax to the nobility which, of course, does not agree.

This is why Louis 16 decides to bring together the Estates General.

A large assembly, where the nobility are represented, the clergy and the third estate.

The deputies of the third are chosen among the bourgeois, because the peasants and the workers do not know neither read nor write Finally, the king asked that we write everywhere in France notebooks of grievances, in which the French express their complaints.

No doubt that in this spring 1789, we are far from imagining the extent that the revolution will take.

But anger growls.

- But what does this intrusion mean! Hola my folks hola - So my good lord, do we have a good descent?

He's going to make a big burp! - Bah! Mrs!

- How about we go out the window with his chair?

- Please! Not out the window! I did not do anything ! - Calm down my friends, calm, no violence. But you are right my little marquis, you did nothing.

Nothing done to help us especially.

And then, his majesty perhaps touches a small pension too?

Like everyone in the king's little papers - Ah no, that's for sure - Ah no, that I assure you. Me I

am just a little marquis.

- Well my little marquis, that will change! You too are going to get your hands on the stock market.

Our good king has decided the meeting of the Estates General.

it cuts you!

- Excuse me for interrupting you, but it's going to be useful for him to reunite The general state ? - To make pay taxes to the nobility and the clergy!

- So that will be a real tour de force.

Make us pay tax to us! Not that it would be unfair.

I don't say that, but I don't believe it.

Let's go for the Estates General. -So you, you seem funny confident. - Simple question of arithmetic. Each order is entitled to one vote.

funny confident. - Simple question of arithmetic. Each order is entitled to one vote.

So that makes us: a voice for nobility, a voice for the clergy, a voice for the people.

What do you want to happen to us?

- Well we'll talk about it!

Come on my friends! I have an appointment with my good friend Olympe of Gouges. On the way to the capital!

of Gouges. On the way to the capital!

- If you're interested, Monsieur le Marquis, I will keep you posted on upcoming events. But it will be hot!

- I think your Marquis has bad blood to worry about, Fred.

Because from the opening of the Estates General.

The question of voting by order or by deputy was asked.

With a voice by order, it is clear that the people had no chance to be heard in the face of the clergy and the nobility whose interests are often linked.

The deputies of the third state will therefore succeed in changing The game's rules.

- The third state refuses to form a separate order under the old system, so he wants that the other two orders meet with him. In front of their reluctance ultimately he takes the lead and joined by some deputies of the clergy and nobility, June 17, 1789 he proclaims the National Assembly - The king refuses the vote by deputy He closed the room of the States General

But the deputies meet in the Jeu de Paume room and vow not to separate before having given a constitution to France. This is the Jeu de Paume oath.

to France. This is the Jeu de Paume oath.

- And then on the 23rd, there is a royal session, a kind of halt, which the king wants to make. Saying,

all this is null and void, etc. Separate, disperse sort of. And the deputies remain in session.

sort of. And the deputies remain in session.

The king dismissed his master of ceremonies and Bailly practically answered him without looking back: "The assembled nation, sir, has no order to receive. "And finally Louis XVI will give in. And he will even declare: "They want to stay, don't care they stay."

- But the king has not said his last word.

He dismisses his Minister Necker who was in favor of the tax reform, causing the wrath of the people and it concentrates around the capital thirty thousand soldiers to prevent disorder. In Paris,

fear and tension are rising ...

- Citizens ! I bring serious news.

I was at the Faith Café, at the Royal Palace, I met a certain Camille Desmoulins there, a lawyer who arrives from Versailles, he says that the troops of the king are preparing a massacre for this night.

He even speaks of a Saint Barthélémy des patriotes!

- So what ? - So Camille Desmoulins got on a chair, a gun in one hand, a sword in the other and he shouted, "To arms!"

- With citizen arms, train your battalions!

- Fred, the Marseillaise does not yet exist. It was not written until 1792 ...

- Excuse me. Well, there are good ones Camille Desmoulins but where will you find the weapons?

- Aux Invalides of course! 3000 rifles and 12 cannons are stored there!

We just have to destock!

- Yeah, but where does the powder come from? - Hey hey, at the Bastille for example.

- Ah good idea at the Bastille! Come on my friends!

All at the Invalides!

- Be careful! It gets violent.

- Come on my friends, all with me!

- On July 14, in the morning, a crowd of Parisians invades the Invalides, to seize rifles, bayonets, and cannons.

- Well, where did you go, Fred?

You didn't come out!

- No but I dream or what?

You're peeling potatoes while the oil is on fire!

But what exactly are you doing? - My name is Antoine Parmentier, I am a military pharmacist.

I am very surprised that you recognized in this tuber Potato.

It's a revolutionary vegetable, you know. - The potatoe, a revolutionary vegetable? Explain that to me.

- If you knew how hard I make it known all the virtues of the potato. They are very numerous and in these times of scarcity, it would be of great help for the people whole. But the court does not want to know anything.

whole. But the court does not want to know anything.

Neither did the Academy of Sciences. - Why, then ?

They claim that PDT transmits leprosy.

Myself, I used it for a year! Among the Prussians, when I was a prisoner. And I don't have leprosy as far as I know!

- In any case, you are right with a good cone of fries or a mince in the stomach, the people would not have taken to the streets, eh. If I went to talk to the king of your potatoes. I'm borrowing some potatoes from you I will return them to you with interest. And you know what you are?

You are a nutritionist. Goodbye Mr Parmentier.

- Nutri ... what?

- Hello gentlemen! Let me introduce myself, Fred, agrifood representative -