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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- Greek War of Independence (1821)
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