Tom Holland
speaker
47,171 appearances
177 recordings
9 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard yesterday
Tom Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Chirac.
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XVI and Marie Antoinette have gone to Reims to be anointed with the holy oil and to be crowned.
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They're returning from their coronation and the boys of the Collège Louis-le-Grand have been preparing what sounds like an unbelievably dull reception with lots of verse declamation in Latin.
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Robespierre, as the prize student, has been entrusted with the task of giving them a ceremonial speech of welcome.
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And he has to wait outside for the royal coach to arrive.
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And it's bucketing down with rain.
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And he's kneeling, waiting for them to arrive.
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And the coach lumbers up.
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Because it's raining, the royal couple don't get out of the coach.
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They just sit in the coach and kind of smile politely.
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They listen to this bedraggled schoolboy give what I'm sure is very, very dull talk.
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And when it's delivered, they acknowledge the speech with kind of polite smiles.
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And then, you know, they give a signal and the carriage clatters off and that's the end of it.
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behave as politely as they can, but they don't want to get wet.
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That's reasonable.
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But you can see that those stories that, you know, he gets cut, splashed with mud and everything.
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This is being used to explain his hostility to the monarchy and his desire to bring down the regime and all.
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I don't think this is true at all.
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Okay.
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I mean, I think it probably didn't help make him into a monarchist or anything like that.
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