HeadZUP!1 The History Channel running "The French Revolution" at Noon ET!1

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X-post from GD.

I just finished reading Professor Simon SCHAMA's "Citizen" (A Chronicle of the FR), which is stupendous, though I'm way behind its 1989 publishing date. His bottom line, in 900 pages, is that the monarchy or just plain the movement of history had had reform and modernizing forces in play that were irreversible such that the FR isn't what made the big change, that the French economy and everything else didn't improve until Napoleon extorted cash from all the countries he "liberated" (the price for their "freedom).

Anyway, the Revolution is here!1