Paris (TRIH ep 57)
1789 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook welcome French journalist Agnès Poirier for a wide-ranging, whistle-stop history of Paris. The discussion begins with the symbolic power of Notre-Dame and Poirier's personal account of the 2019 fire, then surveys Paris’s long continuity from Roman Lutetia through its medieval boom, the intellectual life of the University of Paris, and the ferment that produced the French Revolution. They explore recurring themes: Paris as idea versus reality, its status...
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Around 1789
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)