The French Revolution was a bloody fight for liberty, equality and fraternity. But it was also a battle over money. In Part 1 of The Story of Money, host Robin Wigglesworth explores the revolution’s economic origins with historian Rebecca Spang, author of Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution.
They examine the ‘ancien régime’ under King Louis XVI, the storming of the Bastille, and the controversial new currency that was hailed as a 'saviour of France' and later condemned as a 'poison'.
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