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A history podcast by @dhmontgomery.com covering France's overlooked century between Napoleon and World War I. Annotated transcripts at thesiecle.com!

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“While he was pursuing his studies, in August 1801, Saint-Simon was married to Sophie de Champgrand, a talented young writer and musician who had studied under the composer Grétry. According to the bridegroom, this venture was not motivated by romance, but by more mundane considerations. He thought Sophie would be the perfect hostess to help him entertain the scientists of Paris: ‘I used marriage as a means of studying scientists, something which seemed necessary to me for the execution of my enterprise; for in order to improve the organisation of the scientific system, it is not enough to be well acquainted with the state of human knowledge; it is necessary besides to know what effect the cultivation of science has on those who are devoted to it; it is necessary to appreciate the influence which this occupation has on their passions, on their minds, on their morality as a whole and in its various parts.’13 Not surprisingly, the marriage was totally unsuccessful and was dissolved by mutual consent in June 1802.14” Excerpt From Henri Saint-Simon, (1760-1825) (RLE Social Theory) Keith Taylor
Unknown artist, "Portrait of Jacques Laffitte." Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Photo of a cup of tea and several books, including “The July Monarchy: A Political History of France, 1830-1848”
A photo of the family tree of the Lepeletier (or Le Peletier) family, from Laurence Constant's biography of Felix Lepeletier.
Caricature of the 1830 arrest of Jules de Polignac.
Screenshot of an Indiana University Libraries entry for "Histoire des entomologistes français : 1750-1950" by Jean Gouillard
A theatre marquee for a showing of Les Misérables.
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Depiction of a riot in the streets of Paris during the December 1830 treason trial of the former ministers of King Charles X. Auguste Joliet, “Procès des ministres (1830),” in Victor Duruy, Histoire populaire contemporaine de la France, vol. 1 (Paris: Ch. Lahure, 1864). Public domain via Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Depiction of a riot in the streets of Paris during the December 1830 treason trial of the former ministers of King Charles X. Auguste Joliet, “Procès des ministres (1830),” in Victor Duruy, Histoire populaire contemporaine de la France, vol. 1 (Paris: Ch. Lahure, 1864). Public domain via Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Screenshot of an email from an Italian pergola manufacturer.
A screenshot with a portrait of a French man in 1820s Greek clothing, with the text: Athens had fallen despite increasing support for the Greeks from outsiders, including a flashy French colonel named Charles Fabvier. And I hope you’ll forgive one last tangent before we reach the end here, because Fabvier has actually been all over our narrative in the background. Back in Episode 11, I talked about an alleged revolutionary conspiracy in the city of Lyons in 1817, and how liberal elements in the French government later claimed that the entire affair had been a false flag operation by Ultra officials. The author of that liberal report was Col. Fabvier, in his role as a senior military aide. Fabvier was involved in the definitely real liberal coup attempt of 1820 that I talked about in Episode 15. In the aftermath of that failed coup, as I mentioned last time, the Doctrinaire Duc de Broglie acted to protect senior liberal politicians by dropping charges against the one conspirator who was capable of implicating them. That “one conspirator”? No points if you guessed it was Charles Fabvier. You also don’t get any prizes for guessing that Fabvier was heavily involved in France’s Carbonari uprisings. In Episode 18, I mentioned how the French army invading Spain in 1823 was met by a group of exiled French soldiers, waving the tricolor flag and encouraging their countrymen to mutiny. That contingent of exiled French soldiers was commanded by… well, I don’t think you need me to spell it out.89
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King Louis Philippe, Portrait by Louise Adélaïde Desnos (1838)
Portrait of Jacques Laffitte, half-length directed to right, looking to front, with short curly hair, double-breasted coat, white shirt. 1831
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, portrait of Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, Marshal of France, 1837. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Charles X signs the Four Ordinances, by Jules Pelcoq, 1864. From Victor Duruy, Histoire populaire contemporaine de la France, vol. 1 (Paris: Ch. Lahure, 1864). Public domain via Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Joseph, comte de Villèle, by Jean-Sébastien Rouillard
Julien Metzeroth, portrait of Jules de Polignac, 1830.
Coronation portrait of Charles X, by François Gérard, 1825
Artist unknown, “Portrait de Jacques Laffitte,” date unknown. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Portrait of Henri, Duc de Bordeaux, circa 1833
des Lepelletier. Ils allèrent demeurer faubourg Saint-Ho-noré, avec leur tante de Saint-Fargeau, belle-sœur du régicide et fille de Mme Leclerc, née de Peyrac.
Cover of a book titled “Secular Religions in France 1815-1870” with “France 1815-1870” highlighted
Screenshot of a page of French text titled "Dictionnaire des Parlementaires"
Design by Honoré Daumier (possibly) after Charles Philipon's lithograph published in La Caricature in 1831. Wood engraver unknown.
Charles Philipon, La Métamorphose du roi Louis-Philippe en poire (The Metamorphosis of King Louis-Philippe into a Pear), Department of Prints and Photographs, B 16, Rés. Philipon, Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Pen-and-bister-ink drawing.
Animation of Horace Daumier's 1834 caricature of King Louis-Philippe's face as a pear, after an 1831 original by Charles Philipon.
François Gérard, detail from "Portrait of Louis Philippe I, King of the French," 1834.
A photo of books: Umberto Eco’s “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,” two volumes of Balzac’s correspondence, the collected poems of William Wordsworth, a collection of 19th Century French verse, and a summary of David Hume’s philosophy.
A picture of a shelf of books about 19th Century British history.
Louis-Léopold Boilly, "Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763-1845), homme d'État, philosophe, membre de l'Académie française," 1819.
A picture of a laptop, a mug of tea, and several books on a sunny counter.
Screenshot of a spam email
Prince Jules de Polignac
An excerpt from René Laurentin's "A Short Treatise on the Virgin Mary," tr. Charles Neumann (Washington, New Jersey: AMI Press, 1991)
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."
A screenshot of a document showing changes and deletions to part of France's 1814 Constitutional Charter.
Tony Goutière, “Sketch of a young Adolphe Thiers.” Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Artist unknown, “Casimir de Rochechouart, 11th Duke of Mortemart,” date unknown. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Leopold Bucher, “Napoleon II, also known as Franz, Duke of Reichstadt,” 1832. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Portrait of Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, by Pierre Roch Vigneron, 1831. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
François Villain, "Attack on the Barracks on the Rue de Babylone," circa 1830. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Gourdon de Genouillac, "Sack of the Archbishop's Palace in 1830," 1889. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Victor Adam, “General Lafayette Goes to the Hôtel de Ville, Accompanied by Mssrs. Audry de Puyraveau, Carbonnel, Gérard, Lafitte, de la Borde, Lasteyries (sic), Dumoulin, Béraner, etc.,” 1830. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Jattiot, “Licenciement de la garde nationale (12 avril 1827),” in Victor Duruy, Histoire populaire contemporaine de la France, vol. 1 (Paris: Ch. Lahure, 1864). Public domain via Bibliothèque National de France.
Jean Louis Bezard, "Taking of the Louvre, July 29, 1830; Massacre of the Swiss Guard," 1832. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
“But Sire, give orders, the blood is flowing and you can stop it,” a uiformed soldier says to King Charles X, kneeling in church. “After Mass,” the king replies. Caricature by H. Fournier, 1830. Public domain via Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Bernard-Édouard Swebach, detail from “Prise du Louvre,” in Semaine Parisienne: Fastes des Habitants de Paris, album national dédié aux braves qui ont combattu pour la liberté dans les journées des 27, 28, 29 juillet 1830 (Mulhouse and Paris: Engelmann et Cie, 1830). Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Honoré Daumier, caricature of Charles Louis Huguet de Semonville, 1835. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Gaspard Gobaut, "The palace and garden of the Tuileries," 1847. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, "Allégories, caricatures, apothéoses, satires, chants patriotiques, portraits collectifs de la famille royale et divers sur la suite des 3 journées," after 1830. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Léon Cogniet, "Scène de Juillet 1830 — Les drapeaux," 1830. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Ary Scheffer, "Marquis de Lafayette," 1822. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Fighting at a barricade near the Hôtel de Ville. Unknown artist, circa 1830. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.