La Révolution Française (1989) Part 1 ENG SUB

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La Révolution française (film) - Wikipedia

The Battle of Valmy, France--Belgium border, 20 September 1792

 Clip from the 1989 production "La Révolution Française" / "The French Revolution" (360 min)

The Battle of Valmy was the first major victory by the army of France during the French Revolution. The action took place on 20 September 1792 as Prussian troops commanded by the Duke of Brunswick attempted to march on Paris. Generals François Kellermann and Charles Dumouriez stopped the advance near the northern village of Valmy. After the battle, the newly-assembled National Convention was emboldened enough to formally declare the end of monarchy in France and the establishment of the First French Republic.

Castlebar 1981

 A battle scene for the six part television drama, ‘The Year of the French’ is filmed near Castlebar, County Mayo.

On location in Mayo, scenes are being filmed for the retreat of British forces the became known as The Battle of Castlebar during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The battle took place on 27 August 1798 and lasted just six hours. It was the first real test for the hastily assembled Irish soldiers backed by the French army. The scene is being recreated for the drama series ‘The Year of the French’. An army of seven or perhaps eight hundred raggedly dressed, hard pressed peasant farmers backboned by seven hundred of the about one thousand of the French regulars who had landed at Killala. While they would be no match for the British regiments in the field, tactically they outwitted the British commanders taking them by surprise in their march on Castlebar led by the French leader General Humbert and his Chief Aide de Camp Colonel Teeling. The manoeuvre which had given the French and Irish the key element of surprise was a forced march across the bogs of Mayo. The British had expected the Irish and French forces to come marching up the Foxford Road but General Humbert pushed his army along a goat path in preparation for attack. Humbert was hell bent on glory and ordered his troops down the hill into a murderous hail of canon fire. Astonishingly for men with no experience of battle, they pressed on even under volley after volley of grapeshot. The British eventually retreated and the battle became immortalised as ‘The Races of Castlebar’. As filming continued, the general verdict on the hillside was that The 1981 version of the Races of Castlebar was quite magnificent. As the production continues, all of those involved in the filming agree that it is likely to be an outstanding success. An RTÉ News report broadcast on 25 August 1981. The reporter is Jim Fahy. Adapted from a novel by Thomas Flanagan, and directed by Michael Garvey, ‘The Year of the French’ is an RTÉ co-production with the French television station FR 3 in association with Britain’s Channel 4, featuring Irish, French and English actors. The first episode was broadcast on RTÉ television on 18 November 1982.

The Chieftains French March

 From the tv series Year of the French from 1988.

Napoléon - Bande-annonce officielle HD

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Napoleon - The Corsican Eagle (1955) with Pierre Brasseur, Jean Gabin, Jean Marais

 This has only been a couple of weeks so I haven't seen it yet. Has English subtitles.

Guillotine Scene from Chouans (1988)

 One day I will see this. 

THE DELUGE - Official HD Trailer - Only In Cinemas

 

Chouans (1988) trailer

 I would love to see this. 

Chouan (French pronunciation: [ʃwɑ̃] ^ⓘ, "the silent one", or "owl") is a French nickname. It was used as a nom de guerre by the Chouan brothers, most notably Jean Cottereau, better known as Jean Chouan, who led a major revolt in Bas-Maine against the French Revolution. Participants in this revolt – and to some extent French anti-revolutionary activists in general – came to be known as Chouans, and the revolt itself came to be known as the Chouannerie.

Year of the French

 Year of the French RTE serial about the events of 1798 in Ireland from 1982. I wish they would put this out on DVD. Music by the Chieftains. Watch a short film about it here https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0809/807932-the-year-of-the-french/

The 51ème Challenge

 This reenactment group are going viral for a drinking game to play while you watch the Ridley Scott Napoleon. Take a shot every time you see something inaccurate onscreen. The winner is not intoxicated. 

Toussaint Louverture 2012 (English Subtitles)

 Here the trailer is here

 Maybe with the Napoleon movie there will be more interest in the 1790s? Here is one I have not seen before by the Funckens.

The Guardian reviews Napoleon

 Here

Who is going to Napoleon?

 Maybe there will be a surge of interest in the period. 

Napoleon (1927)

 Trailer here. This film is worth looking at in the current theme of Napoleon movies. I saw this with a full orchestra.Silent but spectacular. 

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Napoleon

 Official trailer here

Hornblower The Frogs and the Lobsters 1999

 I picked up this DVD for 50p. The episode is loosely based on the Quiberon expedition. Wiki. The love interest was Estelle Skornik who was the girl in the "Papa Nicole" advertisements.

NAPOLEON - Official Trailer (HD)

 He came from nothing. He conquered everything. From acclaimed director Ridley Scott, #Napoleon is exclusively in movie theaters this Thanksgiving. Watch the official trailer now.

The Escape of Louis XVI full movie (drama documentary)

 Paris – June 21st, 1791 – 12:30 am

Louis XVI flees to escape the revolution 

To save his children and his wife, Marie-Antoinette, from the vindictive crowd, King Louis XVI, in bourgeois disguise, flees the Tuileries Palace where he has been held prisoner. But nothing goes to plan. His failed escape ends a year later with the decapitation of the King and Queen of France.

Watch it with English Subtitles