The French History Podcast

Dr. Nina Studer talks about the absinthe craze and peril in France from the 1830s to its ban in 1915. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Micah Alpaugh talks about how all of France and its colonies participated in the French Revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Stephanie Brown talks about a missing painting by the great Paul Gauguin and how it was found. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Documentarian David Ritter talks about the ethnic French population in modern Haiti. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scholar and popular author C.J. Adrien talks about a little-known island off the coast of West France & how it remade the Viking world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Louis VI defies a king, and emperor and his barbaric vassals to assert his right to rule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look at 20th century cinema by Arab immigrants to France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terrorists, anarchists and Irishmen! Government surveillance transitions from the masses to subversive individuals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The history of mass surveillance in France and Britain from the French Revolution until the 1880s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of 3 looking at the history of government surveillance in France and Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War I Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An epic 9-hour long history of the First Crusade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A retrospective on an event that changed human history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Holy War conquers the Holy Land. Caught between an empire and a caliphate, the lords forge their own path. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The holy war finally reaches its destination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Louis Sarkozy discusses Napoleon's little-known obsession with literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gavin Whitehead talks all about Madame Tussaud, the French Revolution and the oddities that ensue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WW2 threatens the destruction of the Louvre and its masterpieces Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The holy war is starved and trapped by an army twice its size. Only a miracle can save the Western armies from dying thousands of miles from their home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A special episode about the land and language of southern France Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything, Everywhere, Daily talks about the French Revolutionaries' attack on one of France's most historic churches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scholar Carlos A. González tells the story of a poem about monsters from Brittany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Matthew Jagel discusses the colonization of Cambodia, it's place in WW2 and the decolonial struggle against France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Iron Men face their greatest challenge yet: an impregnable fortress on the way to Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Turks raise army after army to throw at the First Crusade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

History Daily tells us all about the Man on Wire who in 1974 walked between the Twin Towers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Western lords are already trying to make themselves masters of the East; but the Eastern Roman Empire looms over all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kiki was 'Queen of Montparnasse,' a superstar of her time. Who was she and why has she been forgotten? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sword-Lion launches a trap that catches God's warriors off-guard. They will emerge as Iron-Men Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After over a year of preparation and marching the Crusaders finally meet their foe. But the greatest enemy of the holy war may be its own leaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Fake History Hunter talks about things that never happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seven lords and an emperor vie for control of the holy war before it begins its conquests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A history of terrorism in France from the late 19th century to present. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first episode of an incredible podcast on the French Revolution Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Azzan Yadin-Israel explains the incredible story of how medieval French artists turned the Biblical Forbidden Fruit into an apple in Western iconography. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A talk about France's first female helicopter pilot, her many dangerous missions in the First Indochina War and the legacy she created. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seven armies trek across Europe to Constantinople, facing the storms, brigands and hostile forces to get there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A conversation between two Francophiles on the finer things in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A collaboration with Fabulously Delicious about how French cuisine came to the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look into Paris as seen through the eyes of Thomas Jefferson during his 5-year stay just before the Revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fiction and reality come together in a modern crisis afflicting the Middle East and Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A short update on what's been going on with the FHP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Bonnie Effros explains how French soldiers & scholars uncovered & destroyed Roman ruins in Algeria as part of their civilizing mission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warriors in their own Words kindly shares an episode of their podcast following a soldier in the Normandy landings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Lauren Quigley talks about modern interpretations of the City of Lights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scholar Marie Martine talks about one of the most popular woman authors of the Belle Époque. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melek Chekili talks about the reinterpretation of Frantz Fanon's ideas in the post-Algerian War by one of Algeria's most famous writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We introduce the seven great lords who led the holy war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The General." "The Great Asparagus." "A man with the most oversized personality." Charles de Gaulle was President of France from 1959-69, and his near-mythological status had been building up for decades before then. His debut appearance in Billy's song is because of his critical involvement in the May 1958 Crisis, which saw Algerian Nationalists rise up and, after nearly 130 years of French colonization, fight for freedom. Dr Arthur Asseraf is an expert in modern France and North Africa, and grew up in France well aware of the near-mythological status that de Gaulle still adopts today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it better to be a hero or great? What is the difference? What makes someone a hero or great in France? Pierre talks all about that and how to get into the Panthéon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scholar Michelle Chun-Han Hsu looks at what a Belle Époque play can tell us about France's understanding of China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pope ordered that only soldiers should fight God's enemies. But a mystic from Amiens leads unnumbered masses to holy war and their doom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices