That is a complex sentence and you need to read the sentence as a whole.  Qui is the subject of the verb voire ( qui ... voit), relative pronoun for “la revolution ...”.; qui is translated as ‘which’ in the transcript.

 “La révolution ...” is the subject of the verb “inspirer” (La révolution ... inspire) which continues the main clause.

Do you know you can click on the transcript for translation and the pertinent lessons - the lesson on qui as relative pronoun is linked to that phrase.

La Révolution, qui, en seulement trois jours, ....

en + timespan = within timespan

en seulement trois jours -- within only three days.

I think your listening exercises are very good and I love your website but this is not A2 level.

A2 is still a high beginner level and a listening exercise should be much shorter and simpler.

Merci beaucoup 

I thought this was a little hard  for A2, also.  But I found it to be very interesting and I am going to talk about the content at my next conversation group meeting.

< Lors de  >  - during, as translated in the exercise. Lors de (le Congrès) - during (the) Congress - (de le) contracts to “du”.

While in English “the” may be dropped in a similar sentence, the definite article is not dropped in French.

Hi Michael,

How about:      "The drama/tragedy whose subject happens to be an uprising (of the Napolitains against their oppressors)"

Hope this helps

Jim

Michael - from what you have written, I am not sure you know you can click on the text to view a translation ? (It is 'a translation' because translation is subjective, but it is always a good one).

Hi There , I think it's referring to the happenstance that that night's performance just " happened to be on the subject of Neopolitans uprising" that the Belgian uprising occurred....

Telling a story situated in the past by using the present tense is a stylistic instrument to increase the immediacy for the reader. The temporal separation is removed and the reader feels more deeply immersed. This is also an option in English, by the way:

"You won't believe what happened to me the other day. I'm walking down the street, minding my own business, when suddenly someone taps me on the shoulder."

The first sentence sets the temporal stage, indicating that what follows took place in the past. Then the narrator switches to the present tense to draw the listener into the story.