France in the Nineteenth Century


Read by Cate Barratt

(4 stars; 11 reviews)

Author Elizabeth Latimer synthesizes notes from a variety of sources to produce this summary of the nation of France in the 19th century. (Summary by Cathy Barratt) (14 hr 9 min)

Chapters

01 - Notes and Chapter I. Charles X and the Days of July, part 1 24:32 Read by Cate Barratt
02 - Chapter I. Charles X and the Days of July, part 2 24:37 Read by Cate Barratt
03 - Chapter II. Louis Philippe and His Family, part 1 22:07 Read by Cate Barratt
04 - Chapter II. Louis Philippe and His Family, part 2 21:17 Read by Cate Barratt
05 - Chapter III. Louis Napoleon's Early Career. -- Strasburg, Boulogne, Ham, p… 20:54 Read by Cate Barratt
06 - Chapter III. Louis Napoleon's Early Career. -- Strasburg, Boulogne, Ham, p… 22:50 Read by Cate Barratt
07 - Chapter IV. Ten Years of the Reign of the Citizen King 22:27 Read by Cate Barratt
08 - Chapter V. Some Causes of the Revolution of 1848 28:47 Read by Cate Barratt
09 - Chapter VI. The Downfall of Louis Philippe 31:59 Read by Cate Barratt
10 - Chapter VII. Lamartine and the Second Republic, part 1 23:14 Read by Cate Barratt
11 - Chapter VII. Lamartine and the Second Republic, part 2 26:35 Read by Cate Barratt
12 - Chapter VIII. The Coup d'État 30:53 Read by Cate Barratt
13 - Chapter IX. The Emperor's Marriage, part 1 27:30 Read by Cate Barratt
14 - Chapter IX. The Emperor's Marriage, part 2 24:32 Read by Cate Barratt
15 - Chapter X. Maximilian and Mexico, part 1 25:19 Read by Cate Barratt
16 - Chapter X. Maximilian and Mexico, part 2 21:23 Read by Cate Barratt
17 - Chapter XI. The Emperor and Empress at the Summit of Prosperity, part 1 22:52 Read by Cate Barratt
18 - Chapter XI. The Emperor and Empress at the Summit of Prosperity, part 2 21:29 Read by Cate Barratt
19 - Chapter XII. Paris in 1880: July, August and September, part 1 18:16 Read by Cate Barratt
20 - Chapter XII. Paris in 1880: July, August and September, part 2 16:27 Read by Cate Barratt
21 - Chapter XIII. The Siege of Paris, part 1 24:41 Read by Cate Barratt
22 - Chapter XIII. The Siege of Paris, part 2 24:25 Read by Cate Barratt
23 - Chapter XIV. The Prussians in France, part 1 19:39 Read by Cate Barratt
24 - Chapter XIV. The Prussians in France, part 2 17:20 Read by Cate Barratt
25 - Chapter XV. The Commune, part 1 18:52 Read by Cate Barratt
26 - Chapter XV. The Commune, part 2 25:33 Read by Cate Barratt
27 - Chapter XVI. The Hostages, part 1 25:12 Read by Cate Barratt
28 - Chapter XVI. The Hostages, part 2 23:37 Read by Cate Barratt
29 - Chapter XVII. The Great Revenge, part 1 24:30 Read by Cate Barratt
30 - Chapter XVII. The Great Revenge, part 2 26:55 Read by Cate Barratt
31 - Chapter XVIII. The Formation of the Third Republic, part 1 28:36 Read by Cate Barratt
32 - Chapter XVIII. The Formation of the Third Republic, part 2 26:33 Read by Cate Barratt
33 - Chapter XIX. Three French Presidents, part 1 28:54 Read by Cate Barratt
34 - Chapter XIX. Three French Presidents, part 2 23:22 Read by Cate Barratt
35 - Chapter XX. General Boulanger 32:57 Read by Cate Barratt

Reviews

Paris Commune chapters are reactionary, misleading


(1 star)

If the two chapters on the Paris Commune seems written by a pollyanna and dubious on her sources and biased writing. Just read Wikipedia's page on the Paris Commune, or most sources. It is totally different. If anything the communards were the moderate and nasty Adolphe Thiers and expoitative were much more bloodthirsty than the communards. The communards should have went all the way to Versailles at the beginning to arrest Thiers and company. The brutal crushing of the the Paris Commune of 1871 is one of history's great tragedies. This is one of most right wing biased "history" of the Paris Commune. If these chapters are representative of the whole audio book, don't waste your time.