Dan Snow

Andrew Hussey

Damian Mitchell

Louise Hooper

Revolutionary Paris

It should have been much better

When I was teaching history, my students loved watching episodes of Tony Robinson&apos;s &quot;Worst Jobs&quot;. So, I was hoping that &quot;Filthy Cities&quot; would also be an entertaining bit of history...but was disappointed. I only watched this particular episode and it so turned me off, I don&apos;t think I&apos;ll be watching any more. What problems did I see? Well, EVERYONE interviewed in the show was British...which was odd since the episode is about Paris. So you see a variety of British professors walking the streets of Paris....why not French professors? The show also seemed to have an a priori assumption and tried to make the evidence support it--even when it didn&apos;t. It tried to say that filth caused the French Revolution--and proof of it was the problem disposing of bodies. This is true...it was a serious problem. BUT the King began having skeletons stacked under the streets of Paris four years BEFORE the revolution! While it&apos;s not true, logically you could argue that doing this and improving things brought on the revolution! Additionally, the show just reveled in being disgusting--with too many shots of feces, fake feces, rotting bodies and the like. It felt more like a gross-out show than a serious historical documentary.

When I was teaching history, my students loved watching episodes of Tony Robinson's "Worst Jobs". So, I was hoping that "Filthy Cities" would also be an entertaining bit of history...but was disappointed. I only watched this particular episode and it so turned me off, I don't think I'll be watching any more. What problems did I see? Well, EVERYONE interviewed in the show was British...which was odd since the episode is about Paris. So you see a variety of British professors walking the streets of Paris....why not French professors? The show also seemed to have an a priori assumption and tried to make the evidence support it--even when it didn't. It tried to say that filth caused the French Revolution--and proof of it was the problem disposing of bodies. This is true...it was a serious problem. BUT the King began having skeletons stacked under the streets of Paris four years BEFORE the revolution! While it's not true, logically you could argue that doing this and improving things brought on the revolution! Additionally, the show just reveled in being disgusting--with too many shots of feces, fake feces, rotting bodies and the like. It felt more like a gross-out show than a serious historical documentary.

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