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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Talleyrand plan to partition Belgium, 1830

The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#OTD 28 September 1934 Brigitte Bardot was born. She became an actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best known sex symbols of the late 1950s and 1960s.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#OTD 28 September 1066 Guillaume, Duke of Normandy, lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#OTD 27 September 2019 Over two million people across 2,400 locations worldwide participated in worldwide strikes to protest for governmental policy changes that address the threat of climate change.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#OTD 27 September 1066 William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#OTD 27 September 1791 The National Assembly of France votes to award full citizenship to Jews.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last year I had a conversation with a Zionist and I said that while Israel has a right to defend itself, killing children is wrong, to which he responded, "Aha. Mask off." I think about that a lot.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#OTD 26 September 1918 The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began which would last until the total surrender of German forces.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Senegalese troops of the Free French forces at the time of the inspection by General Leclerc in Tunisia, 19 May 1943

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Europe The patron saint of each European country. Saint Denis and Joan of Arc are the saints of France

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#OTD 23 September 1865 Marie-Clémentine "Suzanne" Valadon, was born to an impoverished mother & never knew her father. She dropped out of school at age 11 to work. She moved to Montmartre in 1880 & taught herself how to paint. With no formal education she became one of the great painters of her age.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#OTD 23 September 1913 Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This image has gone viral with the caption "Poignant street art in Lille." Spot what's wrong with it.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

United States 2018 Proportion of French Americans by County

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#OTD 22 September 1792 The first new day of the Republican calendar begins. The day was called Primidi Vendémiaire of Year One.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#OTD 21 September 1792 The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

German dictator Adolf Hitler & other top Nazis inspect a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939. Hitler modeled the arch on Napoleon's Arc de Triomphe but wanted it to be larger.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#OTD 20 September 1792 French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy. Victory gave the revolutionary government confidence and they quickly proceeded to put Louis XVI on trial for conspiring against the republic.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#OTD 19 September 1870 The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#OTD 18 September 1981 The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. The cartoon shows François Mitterrand guillotining the guillotine.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#OTD 18 September 1898 The most dramatic moment of the Fashoda Incident occurs. French soldiers established a fort at Fashoda as they sought to expand French territory at the expense of the British. That day a British force 10x larger arrived, leading to a war-scare. The French backed down.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Britain attacking the French navy to keep it out of the hands of the Germans.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Best-selling car in France vs. USA in 2023. The Renault Clio's MPG is 53 to 67 MPG (about 4.2 to 5.3 liters per 100 km). The Ford F-150's MPG is 10-26 (9 to 23 liters per 100km).

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Best-selling car in France vs. USA in 2023. The Renault Clio's MPG is 53 to 67 MPG (about 4.2 to 5.3 liters per 100 km). The Ford F-150's MPG is 10-26 (9 to 23 liters per 100km).

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#OTD 15 September 1873 The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

France population density. Credit to Geostatistics

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The funniest thing about Trump demanding Ukraine stop hitting Russian oil plants: he has no leverage since he cut off all military aid to Ukraine. Ukraine has every incentive to keep attacking Russia to force the US to come out harder on Putin. In other words: Trump doesn't have the cards.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#OTD 13 September 1914 The Battle of the Aisne begins between Germany and France. A quarter of a million French soldiers were killed or wounded as they kept Germany from penetrating deeper into France.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall. -Gustave Eiffel

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#OTD 12 September 1915 French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh. French ships vacuated 3,004 women and children and over 1,000 men from Musa Dagh to safety in Port Said in Egypt.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#OTD 12 September 1940 Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France. These are arguably the greatest cave paintings ever discovered, preserved due to a cave-in. Hear all about it in our episode: www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/2-in-the-beg...

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2 – In the Beginning There Was France

Long before there were people, France was a frozen tundra. This episode looks at France from 3 million years ago until the first humans arrived.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Four French citizens died in the 11 September 2001 attacks, out of a total of 2,977. The US invoked Article V of NATO & France responded by sending soldiers to fight in Afghanistan were 90 soldiers died protecting the US.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Student officers in Paris honor the victims of the terror attacks that occured earlier that morning, 11 September 2001

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mini-Statue of Liberty, Hanoi, French Indochina, later blown up after the Vietnamese famine of 1945

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Firearm homicide rates: Italy: 0.35 per 100,000, 1/12th of the U.S. France: 0.32 per 100,000, 1/13th of the U.S. Sweden: 0.25 per 100,000, 1/16th of the U.S, Spain: 0.13 per 100,000, 1/32nd of the U.S. Germany: 0.08 per 100,000, 1/51st of the U.S.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#OTD 9 September 1561 The Colloquy of Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants. It broke up inconclusively a month later, on 9 October, by which point the divide between the doctrines appeared irreconcilable.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nothing to celebrate and nothing to celebrate with! As the planet rapidly warms champagne production gets hit hard.

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