Kate Williams
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first heard Sep 2026
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In Paris, stormed by the people.
Full of omissions, and King asks, Oh, is it a revolt?
And the Duke, who tells him this, says, No, sire, it's a revolution.
It is a revolution.
We have the real and what happened before this was that the king actually called a meeting of the Estates General, which hadn't met since 1614.
parliament.
We have the aristocracy, we have the clergy, and it was decided that the third estate would also meet as well, that the poor, the very large, you know, lower working class, including the middle class as well, that they all should be represented.
But but the king and Marie Antoinette
their their son is dying during this, so they aren't really very present and this isn't seen as understandable.
And really from this you see the big movement of the aristocracy.
Who don't want to pay any land taxes, any property taxes.
I mean, some aristocracy, I think, genuinely do believe in in freedom.
Some just don't want to pay any more tax.
And the rise of the third estate, the rise of the third estate, who become this very powerful grouping.
And you know, when they want to meet, they can't meet, so they meet in a tennis court in Versailles.
So the the rise of these sort of political voices.
of the people, of all the sections of the people, and increasingly the King and Marie Antoinette seem at odds to them.
We're
Big moment.
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