The French Revolution: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The French Revolution, credited to Hilaire Belloc, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The French Revolution, by Hilaire Belloc. Read by Ray Clare “It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both cannot be right. Reasoning men have also protested, and justly, against the conception that what a majority in numbers, or even (what is more compelling still) a unanimity of decision in a community may order, may not only be wrong but may be something which that community has no authority to order since, though it possesses a civil and temporal authority, it acts against that ultimate authority which is its own consciousness of right. Men may and do justly protest against the doctrine that a community is incapable of doing deliberate evil; it is as capable of such an action as is an individual. But men nowhere do or can deny that the community acting as it thinks right is ultimately sovereign: there is no alternative to so plain a truth.” - Hilaire Belloc

Recording facts

• Recording title: The French Revolution
• Author credits: Hilaire Belloc
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 6:59:38

Catalogue topics

• History
• Fench Revolution
• Catholic Church

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 01 - Preface — 6:39
2. 02 - Chapter 1 The Poitical Theory of the Revolution — 14:36
3. 03 - Chapter 1 (concluded) — 15:46
4. 04 - Chapter 4 Rousseau — 13:47
5. 05 -Chapter III The Characters of the Revolution - King Louis XVI — 13:08
6. 06 - Chapter III (cont.) - The Queen — 14:36
7. 07 - Chapter III (cont.) - Mirabeau — 13:46
8. 08 - Chapter 3 (cont.) - La Fayette - Dumouriez - Danton — 17:43
9. 09 - Chapter III (concluded) - Carnot - Marat - Robespierre — 19:04
10. 10 - Chapter IV - The Phases of the Revolution - I — 11:03
11. 11 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - I — 14:32
12. 12 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - II — 7:06
13. 13 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - III — 10:54
14. 14 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - IV — 9:17
15. 15 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revoluton - IV — 9:20
16. 16 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - V — 13:28
17. 17 - Chapter 4 (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - VI — 10:38
18. 18 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - VI — 10:59
19. 19 - Chapter IV (concluded) - The Phases of the Revolution - VI — 8:29
20. 20 - Chapter V - The Military Aspect of the Revolution — 10:34
21. 21 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution — 13:01
22. 22 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution — 10:46
23. 23 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution — 11:52
24. 24 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution — 10:44

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