Podcast Episodes

Vendée with Jean-Clément Martin

Season 1 Episode 98

From monsters to myths, this episode unpacks the Vendée with Professor Jean-Clément Martin.

One of the foremost authorities on the civil war, Martin shows how factional politics transformed local un…

Published on 8 hours ago

Vendée: Extermination

Season 1 Episode 97

From the mass drownings to hell columns, this episode charts the Republic’s campaign to exterminate the western rebellion. Uncover the rivalries and atrocities that turned victory into massacre, and …

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Vendée: The March to Hell

Season 1 Episode 96

Searching for salvation, the royalists found hell. Retreat became catastrophe, and battles turned to massacres. This episode explores the rise of ultra-radical commanders and the Convention’s embrace…

Published on 1 month ago

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Season 1 Episode 96

Episode 97: Vendée Extermination

Coming August 15, this landmark episode will explore the Republic’s campaign of extermination in the Vendée. It will unpack the secret drownings in Nantes, the hell c…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Vendée: Nantes or Nothing

Season 1 Episode 95

As the royalists surged through western France, the Republic’s response was pitiful. But when the time came to strike at Paris itself, the insurgents chose Nantes instead. This episode charts the def…

Published on 2 months ago

Vendée: Made in Paris (Bonus)

Season 1 Episode 94

Baptised and weaponised in the capital’s factional struggles, this episode explores how Parisian politics created “the Vendée.” What began as scattered unrest became a manufactured menace: the ultima…

Published on 2 months ago

Hills, Hedges, and Humble Clerics

Season 1 Episode 93

Unpack a royalist's account on the importance of religion in the Vendée, and why the topography of the Vendée was so beneficial to the defending insurrectionists!

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Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Vendée: Civil War (Recap)

Season 1 Episode 93

The inferno ignites. Arguably the most divisive theatre of the French Revolution, it’s time to return to the west.

This episode is a repost of Episode 1.55 Civil War in the Vendée, exploring the dram…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

The People's Voice Part II

Season 1 Episode 92

From abandoned palaces to Revolutionary executions, this Q&A dives into five gripping questions from the community!

Why didn’t Louis XVI flee during the October Days of 1789?

What became of Versaill…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Revolution & Total War with Dr David Bell

Season 1 Episode 92

From war crimes and Terror to Napoleon and nationalism, unpack the fascinating dynamics of total war in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

This interview with Dr David Avrom Bell explores …

Published on 3 months ago