Status Updates From Lectures on the French Revo...

Interestingly, he was not a fan of Carlyle's work.

Nice beatdowns of Blanc and Michelet, two leftists.

Not quite happy with his comments on the liberalism of the Revolution. Didn't he say its progenitors weren't liberals? Then why does he sound later like he thought that the Revolution started out with liberal demands? Or does he only mean the issues with taxation? If so, I understand him.

Generally, he paints a less bleak picture than EvKL, who talked about it in less space and thus had to condense it, of course.

Inspiring how the crew of the sinking Vengeur was saved by its enemies, the English.

He says that the case for the French Revolution was stronger than the one for the American Revolution. Which brings me to how he calls it a revolution, not an independence war. Clearly, Lord Acton and Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn have some strong underlying differences, but I can't yet tell which.

Not a word on the Colonnes Infernales? I am disappointed.

Guyot, the false bishop, was a fraud, but still a war hero.

The Vendeé Uprising was a Christian, not so much a royalist uprising at first, and it retained its primarily religious character even later on when it became associated with royalism.

He had some pages on Charles Armand Tuffin, Marquis de la Rouerie. Gotta reread this from "Leftism", Tuffin was a great man.

He provides a vivid and nuanced description of Robespierre.

Robespierre pretty much had the legal power to have political enemies executed without trial. No witnesses, no written records, not even arguments, just the verdict delivered by the jury. No absolute monarch ever held such power.

Dantons last days, in which his spirit was broken, make me feel sorry for him, brutal as he had been.

The month-long institution of a "religion of reason" was equal parts funny and lamentable.

Both Danton and Robespierre later protected Christianity. The former to oppose the Hébertists, the latter out of a genuine theistic belief.

Hébert, successor of Marat, unless I misread something, was a vile man.