The French History Podcast

Dr. Joan DeJean talks about how climate crisis, the first economic bubble and meltdown and corrupt police forced innocent women into exile in colonial Louisiana and how they overcame incredible odds to survive and even thrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Kate Vigurs talks about the women secret agents operating in France, their heroism, sacrifice & service in the fight against Nazi Occupation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the country in chaos, faithful ban together to bring peace to France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Megan Brown discusses how post-independence Algeria remained a part of a pan-European project, as it existed in a legal limbo following its independence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Year 1,000 approaches. Signs in the heavens signal doom. French people prepare for the end of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A riot breaks out between left-wing & right-wing agitators and half a dozen are killed by police. What happened? Whose fault was it? Dr. Chris Millington talks about the heated political culture of 1930s France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Kathleen McCrudden Illert talks about one of the most fascinating revolutionaries you've probably never heard of and her impact on France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert II ascends to the throne. The second Capetian, he must rule a kingdom even as many of his vassals consider him an illegitimate ruler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Matt Robertshaw explains how Haitians travelled through the French Empire and their impact on Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hugh Capet inaugurates a new dynasty whose house and offshoots will rule France for 800 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Deborah Bauer talks about the emergence of surveillance agencies in France and the contradictions they represented in a liberal democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Islamic forces from Iberia conquer a fortress in Provence. Taking advantage of political weakness in France, they establish a state along the coast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benjamin Bernier of Thugs and Miracles joins the podcasts to rank the Merovingian kings, often called France's first dynasty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mickey Mouse, er Robespierre, reads a speech on reason and the Supreme Being. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An excerpt from an audiobook on France's greatest monument, exclusively for patrons! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of War for the Throne sees the Carolingian House fail and a new dynasty take its place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Olivier Robichaud talks about the origins of the French language; how Latin was it? How Gallic? How Frankish? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Carolingian House enters a crisis that threatens its existence in West Francia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A massive army of Odin-worshippers sail down the Seine and threaten Paris. With the Carolingians gone the Franks will have to fend for themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What made Gauls and Franks laugh? Hear some very very old jokes that made our ancestors' sides split. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many people know about Christian Dior, but have you heard about Catherine? Resistance hero, learn all about Miss Dior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An episode on the wonder and woes of childbirth in the medieval period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An episode all about Carolingian women, their lives and impact upon Francia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The legendary Mike Duncan talks about his book Hero of Two Worlds and the incredible life of Lafayette. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What was life like in medieval Francia? Learn all about it for the rich, poor, powerful and powerless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles the Bald inherits a kingdom in collapse. Yet, his indefatigueable spirit proves legendary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A poem on the inter-Frankish violence by Louis the Pious' sons that tore apart Charlemagne's empire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A conversation with Robert Pike about Oradour-sur-Glane, which experienced a Nazi massacre in 1944. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Louis the Pious' sons each fight for what is theirs, tearing apart the Frankish world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A dramatic reading of medieval poems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr.s Christine and Tracy Adams. Christine Adams talk about the history of one of France's most important political positions: the royal mistress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How will Louis the Pious rule the great empire left by his legendary father Charlemagne? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A conversation on the Franco-Prussian War and an exciting project to bring it life! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A dramatic readings of poems by the greatest poet of Merovingian Francia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What influence did Charlemagne have on Francia, Europe & the world? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Emma Kavanagh discusses a disaster of a play, and the incredible woman behind it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the last episode on the Carolingian Renaissance I talked about how the Franks expanded their knowledge on nearly every major subject. One area I didn’t manage to get to is astronomy. At the time, calendars and general knowledge of the heavens were fairly crude. In fact, there are no surviving Merovingian works dealing with […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Matthew McDonald tells the story of how one of Napoleon's generals became King of Sweden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A classic episode about one of the greatest periods of learning, construction & art in European history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The Political Philosophy of Terror” a speech by Paris Deputy of the National Convention Maximilien Robespierre, delivered to the Convention 5 February 1794. Read, by Mickey Mouse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ainan Liu details an important and historic play by the great Jean Racine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Death might be permanent, but resting places are not. Learn about the unique way French people died by Dr. Kaylee Alexander. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlemagne wanted to create a righteous empire and changed Christianity forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An episode all about Charlemagne's military. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sophie Higgerson talks about a mansion so grand it made King Louis XIV jealous and inspired Versailles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlemagne was already a king. Now he ascends still further and becomes the first emperor in the west in centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aaron Kestle talks about how French mythmakers told stories of King Arthur and how he wasn't just an English hero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlemagne launches wars in all directions and wins them all. Mostly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlemagne and his brother vie for power, but only one will become a legend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Millington talks about the rise of the far-right in France during the 1920s-1930s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices