# Edmund Burke, Intellectuals, and the French Revolution, Part 3

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/edmund-burke-intellectuals-and-the-french-revolution-part-3>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** November 9, 2016

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George H. Smith explains why Burke predicted that the French Revolution would end in systematic violence.

[Originally published in essay form on March 28, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/edmund-burke-intellectuals-french-revolution-part-3)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._