39. The French Revolution: When, why and so what?
Leave a reviewWe investigate a queen who wore a large ship in her hair, meet a king who made tables and we learn history from musicals!
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We investigate a queen who wore a large ship in her hair, meet a king who made tables and we learn history from musicals!
Wanna be Marie Antoinette? Get your chocolate chef to make you a hot chocolate, shove a two-foot-long ship in your hair and tell everyone who can’t afford bread to eat cake!
(And, without even trying, you’ll learn all about ‘cause’ and ‘consequence’.)
You’ll also hear a trailer for Mark Selleck’s podcast series, Casting Through Ancient Greece, which is aimed at the biggest kids – adults!
Here are 6 questions to see how well you were listening:
- When did the French Revolution begin?
- What was the first building the revolutionaries attacked?
- Why did people hate Marie Antoinette?
- What caused the French Revolution? Why did it happen?
- What were some consequences of the French Revolution?
- During those revolutionary years of 1789-1799, France also went to war against Austria: true or false?
Read industry reviews of Dad’s World War II novels, A Chance Kill and The Slightest Chance, at paulletters.com. Available on Kindle, as well as in paperback. Dad’s first wartime novel, A Chance Kill, is a love-story/thriller based on real events in Poland, Paris, London and Prague. The Slightest Chance follows the remarkable true story of the only escape from Japanese imprisonment by a Western woman during World War II.
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