Finally I watched it! I don't have much to add to what you've already said, I suppose he who made this was just looking at the romantacism angle and ignoring anything else. Like the encyclepdia (I know the French word is slightly different at the end but I can't remember how it goes!) was a huge part of the Enlightenment and the turning towards a more secular society where faith has no place and science and reason take over. But that was covered in a few sentences! I loved seeing Paris with a bloody red sky!

My thoughts on the narrator are the same as yours. If your job is speaking, surely to qualify for this job you should be able to speak correctly? If I was crap at my job I would be fired!