The French History Podcast

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A podcast telling the history of France from 3 million years ago to present. https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/

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The Gallic Wars finally ends as most of Gaul submits to Caesar in a desperate attempt to bring peace. Yet, a few tribes have hatched one final scheme to repulse the Roman invaders that may be even more painful than Caesar's brutal tactics. www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/17-a-bitter-...

17 – A Bitter Peacewww.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com The Gallic Wars finally ends as most of Gaul submits to Caesar in a desperate attempt to bring peace to war-torn Gaul. Yet, a few tribes have hatched one final sche…

#OTD 16 July 1965 The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.

#OTD 16 July 1942 The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.

52 BCE and Prince Vercingetorix unites Gaul in a war to the death with Caesar that will decide Rome and Gaul's fates. www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/16-the-gallo...

16 – The Gallo-Roman Apocalypsewww.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com 52 BCE and Prince Vercingetorix unites Gaul in a war to the death with Caesar that will decide Rome and Gaul's fates.

#OTD 15 July 1918 The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.

#OTD 15 July 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon, confirming his final defeat.

#OTD 15 July 1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. It was later captured by the British and placed in the British Museum.

#OTD 15 July 1790 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

#OTD 14 July 2016 a terrorist ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.

#OTD 14 July 2002 French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at Champs-Élysées.

#OTD 14 July 1790 The inaugural Fête de la Fédération is held to celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation.

#OTD 14 July 1789 Parisians stormed La Bastille prison and armory. This jump-started the Revolution as conservative nobles fled France while the French people formed their own civic organizations.

#OTD 14 July 1602 Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino, known in France as Jules Mazarin, was born. He became an incredibly powerful First Minister of State to Louis XIII. Under his and the king's leadership France became the premier power in Europe.

#OTD 14 July 1430 Joan of Arc, taken by the Burgundians in May, is handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.

#OTD 13 July 1793 Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.

Today is our host Professor Gary Girod's birthday! If you want to make it the best birthday ever please consider signing up for our Patreon to support our page & podcast. Sign up and you'll get all episodes a month early & ad-free, alongside patron-exclusive episodes. www.patreon.com/user?u=42510...

In today's episode It's 53 BCE and Marcus Licinius Crassus is tired of watching Pompey and Caesar take all the glory. Meanwhile, Caesar's divide and conquer tactics reach new heights as he turns the Gauls against themselves. www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/15-fate-meet...

15 – Fate Meets Follywww.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com It's 53 BCE and Marcus Licinius Crassus is tired of watching Pompey and Caesar take all the glory. Crassus raises an army to invade Persia, a gambit which determine…

#OTD 12 July 1863 Léon Charles Albert Calmette was born. He became a bacteriologist, immunologist & an officer of the Pasteur Institute. He developed the first snake antivenom & discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, which was used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis.

#OTD 12 July 1806 At the insistence of Napoleon, Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg and thirteen minor principalities leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.

#OTD 12 July 1790 The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly, subordinationg France's Catholic Church to the state.

#OTD 12 July 1789 In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.

#OTD 12 July 1191 During the Third Crusade Saladin's garrison surrenders to French king Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.

In today's episode Caesar begins the year by invading Britannia and harassing Belgica. Meanwhile Celtica rises up and the Gauls surround two Roman armies. With doom approaching heroes are born as Vorenus and Pullo make an epic last stand. www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/14-a-year-of...

14 – A Year of Heroes: Lucius Vorenus, Titus Pullo and Vertico the Gaulwww.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com Caesar begins the year by invading Britannia and harassing Belgica. Meanwhile Celtica rises up and the Gauls surround two Roman armies. With doom approaching heroes…

#OTD 11 July 1947 The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France. It took 4,515 Jewish migrants, mostly Holocaust survivors. The British navy boarded it in international waters & took it to Haifa where ships were waiting to return the migrants to refugee camps in Europe.

#OTD 11 July 1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.