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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 1d

Good news, everyone! My new friend is about to make The Siècle "top ranking in its own category and top ranking in all the categories" and I'm going to be a top podcaster in the world and earn a lot of money.

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 3d

I asked whether Polignac thought he was receiving divine visions, or if he was just incompetent.

One listener suggests another interpretation: What if Polignac was getting real visions but was just too stupid to follow them? 😂

The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 12d

"Jules has seen the Holy Virgin again last night. She ordered him to persevere, and promised that all would end well."

All did NOT end well for Jules de Polignac. But is it true he was seeing visions of the Virgin Mary?

Find out in a NEW EPISODE:

Fact Check 3: Polignac's visions

French prime minister Jules de Polignac believed he was receiving visions of the Virgin Mary during France's 1830 July Revolution — or so many sources claim....

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 12d

"Jules has seen the Holy Virgin again last night. She ordered him to persevere, and promised that all would end well."

All did NOT end well for Jules de Polignac. But is it true he was seeing visions of the Virgin Mary?

Find out in a NEW EPISODE:

Fact Check 3: Polignac's visions

French prime minister Jules de Polignac believed he was receiving visions of the Virgin Mary during France's 1830 July Revolution — or so many sources claim....

thesiecle.com

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 12d

Oh, I think you'll find today had a different visitor from on high...

The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 12d

Merry Sièclemas!

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 12d

Are you on Instagram? I'm trying to expand The Siècle's social media reach there — a like on the latest reel would be a great way to help boost us in the algorithm: www.instagram.com/p/DPJ9dzpCb2W/

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 13d

Coming Monday morning to your feeds: this guy.

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 24d

“He was no tyrant, but a strongly principled mediocrity.” — Historian Hugh Collingham on Charles X

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 25d

You can see the mix of secondary and primary sources I have used on The Siècle in my show bibliography:

Bibliography

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 25d

A helpful breakdown from @askhistorians.bsky.social of the value of primary and secondary sources in public history.

Someone who doesn't use primary sources may be merely repeating. But not using secondary sources means you miss expert insight & debate. Both are key!

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 26d

Suggestions for translating this? "La main de Dieu roule les siècles devant lui, mais sa sagesse préside au mouvement
qu'il leur imprime."

I have: "The hand of God rolls the centuries before him, but his wisdom guides the movement he gives them" but welcome improvements.

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 27d

Context: @histphilosophy.bsky.social recently completed a 24-episode series on Counter-Reformation philosophy that included extensive discussion of several of the figures my source, René Laurentin, identifies as instrumental in popularizing belief in the Immaculate Conception:

The Catholic Reformation | History of Philosophy without any gaps

In this final series covering the 15-16th centuries, we turn our attention to philosophy shaped by the Catholic response to the Reformation, often called the "Counter-Reformation." We'll mostly find o...

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 27d

Doing a little background reading on 19th Century apparitions of the Virgin Mary, and it once again turns out to pay to stay up to date with @histphilosophy.bsky.social:

An excerpt from René Laurentin's "A Short Treatise on the Virgin Mary," tr. Charles Neumann (Washington, New Jersey: AMI Press, 1991)

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Sep 11

Episode 15: "The Miracle Child"

The shocking assassination of the Duc de Berry swings France to the right. New laws suspend habeas corpus, censor the press, & give extra seats in parliament to wealthy royalists.

With protests in the streets, opposition leaders debate how far they'll go to resist.

Episode 15: The Miracle Child

France swings hard to the right, as the government passes new repressive laws and the nation celebrates the birth of a Bourbon 'miracle child.' Pushed back o...

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Sep 11

The relatively recent biographies by Andrew Roberts and Adam Zamoyski both use up-to-date scholarship and sources, but with somewhat different conclusions — Roberts is a little more pro-Napoleon, Zamoyski a little more anti-. Take your pick or read both for a fuller picture.

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Sep 9

You can tell The Siècle is authentic human work because an AI would have reached the Franco-Prussian War by now. 😂

bnacker @bnacker.bsky.social · Sep 9

Starting to regret inventing the podcast

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Sep 3

Exhausting, mind you, as I sit here at midnight with four different conflicting French-language memoirs open on my computer, trying to figure out how reliable each account is (and what important details AREN'T included — like that two of these memoirists were lovers!) — but satisfying!

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Sep 3

Most of what I do with is pure popular history — telling a historical story, based primarily on secondary sources with a dash of primary sources for extra details or flavor.

But every now & then sources fall short & I have to do serious textual analysis to sort stuff out, and it's VERY satisfying.

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Sep 1

Les Peuples Libres de la Terre du Milieu may be in trouble.

Image of Joseph Fouché and Talleyrand arriving for a meeting with King Louis XVIII in 1815, which will end with the two old revolutionaries being appointed to lead a royalist government. François-René de Chateaubriand memorably described the scene, where Fouché helped Talleyrand (who may have had a congenital clubfoot) walk, as "an infernal vision" of "Vice... leaning on the arms of Crime."

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Aug 27

And keep an eye on your feed in the next week or so for a little bonus about our very special boy Jules P.

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Aug 27

Fans of The Siècle might want to give this a listen to learn about the woman who was friend to the future King Charles X and mother of Charles's prime minister Jules de Polignac.

Vulgar History @vulgarhistory.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s Marie Antoinette Month on the Vulgar History podcast! This week, we’re spilling the tea on her one-time bestie, the Duchess of Polignac. Guest co-host Amanda Matta is on hand to explain the rise and fall of this royal favourite. pod.link/1489560920/e...

Portrait of the Duchess of Polignac with arrows pointing to fun facts about her.

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.bsky.social · Aug 16

I’ve just started Episode 24
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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Aug 16

NEW EPISODE: Congratulations, you won a revolution. Now what?

The winners of France's July Revolution grapple with the aftermath, like how you get the deposed king out of the country, how much to amend the constitution — and what to do with all the bodies. It's Episode 47: The July Settlement.

Episode 47: The July Settlement

The July Revolution is over, and Louis-Philippe will be France's next king. But what sort of monarchy Louis-Philippe will lead is yet to be determined, as Fr...

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Aug 16

It's July 1830, and in France, it's time for The Purge.

Hear more in Episode 47: The July Settlement: thesiecle.com/episode47/

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Aug 16

The constitutional changes France adopted after the July Revolution are complicated — so I made a document showing exactly what was removed and added! It's embedded in Episode 47: thesiecle.com/episode47/

A screenshot of a document showing changes and deletions to part of France's 1814 Constitutional Charter.

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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · Aug 16

(If you downloaded the episode, you may want to re-download it — I uploaded a new version this morning that fixes an editing mistake at the 2-minute mark.)

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