French History on Film (TRIH ep 242)
1894 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host film critic Muriel Zagad to present “a history of France in ten films.” Muriel discusses her ten picks spanning medieval to modern France, explaining how each film illuminates national identity and historical moments. Selections discussed include Jacques Rivette’s two-part Joan of Arc, La Reine Margot (adapted from Alexandre Dumas), Ridicule (court life under the late Ancien Régime), Abel Gance’s epic Napoleon, Les Enfants du Paradis (set...
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Around 1894
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Wright Brothers' first powered flight (1903)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)