The Dangers of the Internet

I've discovered an obsession with the French Revolution.

I started with finding an interest in American History. There's a YouTube channel called Crash Course that has recently started a series about American History, and since I've never really studied it
beyond how it's impacted Canadian history, I thought it might be worth checking out.

Early American history was fairly bloody and religious. I did learn a lot about the Quakers, and I found a few documentaries on Netflix about them to flesh out that knowledge. Using Wikipedia and Google (because they have to be at least as reliable as learning from YouTube, right?) I filled in a few questions  that other episodes brought up.

The American Revolution made me start poking around into what else had been happening around that time. George III was someone I knew about from British history, so I didn't really need to go there.

The French Revolution, however, I wasn't as familiar with. I'd seen The Scarlett Pimpernel and Les Miserables, but I'd never really looked at the history behind either. It had seemed straightforward enough from those sources: The French monarchy were horrible and clueless.  The nobility schemed. The common people were starving.  There was a revolution that didn't go so well until the second try. There was also some question surrounding the death of the Dauphin.

I checked out another YouTube video. I did some more Googling.  Then my obsession hit the big time: I got a book from the library entirely on the French Revolution.

Education. It's a slippery slope. Once you start, you just can't stop.