Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 45

[cahn]

Unfortunately, there was then at Berlin a King who pursued one policy only, who deceived his enemies, but not his servants, and who lied without scruple, but never without necessity.

(from The King's Secret - by Duke de Broglie, grand-nephew of the subject of the book, Comte de Broglie, and grandfather of the physicist) )

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Re: Toussaint Louverture

[selenak]

It's pretty good. The Haiti Revolution is the story of its fourth season. I will say that I think despite the sheer length of the third season, which is about the French Revolution, it's worth going through that first if you're not already familiar with the most important French Revolution data and factions, because a lot of the Haiti Revolution happens in reaction to goings on in France, including the constant shifts in policy and power struggles depending on who's on top. (Especially once we're nearing the Terreur phase, by the time commissioners from France have arrived and step of the boat, back in Paris there's another faction in power favouring a different policy towards Sainte Domingue.) But if you already know your Girondins from your Jacobins, you should be good to go with solely the fourth season. I didn't listen to the Revolutions in chronological order, either.

(They are: - British Revolution/Civil War (i.e. Cromwell and pals)
- American Independence
- French Revolution
- Haiti Revolution
- South American Revolution (Simon Bolivar as the main character of the later half)
- July Revolution (1830)
- 1848 European Revolutions
- Paris Commune (1872)
- Mexican Revolution(s)
- Russian Revolution

One season per Revolution, though the Paris Commune just gets a miniseries, so to speak. And the French and Russian Revolutions, by contrast, get giganto seasons.

Re: Toussaint Louverture

[luzula]

It does look interesting! But I'd probably start with the British Revolution/Civil War. : )