Ed Helms

We're going to restore the monarchy.

Right.

But he actually was just kind of humiliated.

And this turned out to be one of the primary pieces of evidence against him at trial.

This was a huge turning point in the revolution because to the extent that there was a belief that they could make this constitutional monarchy work and that they could sort of share power between a –

a figurehead monarch and representatives of the people.

This escape attempt just blew that out of the water.

And all of a sudden now the revolutionaries are furious at the monarchy.

They're furious at the king and they want him dead.

They want him gone.

And the monarchy was fully abolished by the revolutionary government in 1792.

All of this, the escape attempt and his the letter that he left behind were all used against him as evidence at trial.

And he was, of course, sentenced to death.

What do you think?

Was that fair?

You know the interesting thing about the guillotine is that it was invented by someone opposed to the death penalty because their main—

Beef with a death penalty is how inhumane it is, and the thought was that the guillotine was the most humane way to kill someone because it's so clean and fast.

Right.

I don't know.

Yeah, it's so gruesome, right?