Everything History Podcast

This episode takes us into the summer of 1791. The Jacobin Club is fracturing and a revolt breaks out in the colony of Haiti. Maximilien Robespierre is gaining prominence and, of course, the story of the Flight to Varennes is fully explained. Listen to invigorating primary sources from the people of history themselves and learn why King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette wanted to escape at all. What did they hope to gain? What did they have to lose?