{"id":30918,"date":"2023-12-01T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T07:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=253278"},"modified":"2023-12-01T13:12:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:12:51","slug":"the-dangerous-road-to-the-bastille","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-dangerous-road-to-the-bastille\/","title":{"rendered":"The dangerous road to the Bastille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Robert Darnton guides us through the streets of Paris in the decades leading up to the French Revolution <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Attar\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 01 December 2023 at 07:31 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>The French Revolution of 1789 is one of the defining events of world history \u2013 but the decades preceding the revolution were also seismic, being marked by war, royal scandal, financial crisis and scientific wonder. In conversation with Rob Attar, Robert Darnton takes us on a journey through the streets of Paris in the 40 years that preceded the storming of the Bastille.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-253278-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/thedangerousroadtothebastille-b043246.mp3?_=1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/thedangerousroadtothebastille-b043246.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/thedangerousroadtothebastille-b043246.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Robert Darnton is the author of <em>The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748\u20131789<\/em> (Penguin, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-revolutionary-temper-paris-1748-1789-robert-darnton\/7414486\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Revolutionary-Temper-Paris-1748-1789-ebook\/dp\/B0BX2S5JB8?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-revolutionary-temper%2Frobert-darnton%2F9780713996562\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Robert Darnton guides us through the streets of Paris in the decades leading up to the French Revolution <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30919,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/12\/the-dangerous-road-to-the-bastille.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/12\/the-dangerous-road-to-the-bastille-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/12\/the-dangerous-road-to-the-bastille-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/12\/the-dangerous-road-to-the-bastille.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/12\/the-dangerous-road-to-the-bastille.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/12\/the-dangerous-road-to-the-bastille.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/12\/the-dangerous-road-to-the-bastille.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Robert Darnton guides us through the streets of Paris in the decades leading up to the French Revolution","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/30918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}