Tom Holland
speaker
53,183 appearances
201 recordings
9 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 2d ago
Tom Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is then combined with
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an absolute commitment to his own ferociously high moral standards.
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He is unbribable.
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And again, this makes him pretty much unique among all the various French revolutionaries.
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Obvious contrast is with Danton, who is cheerfully corrupt.
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But basically everyone is pocketing bribes left, right, and center.
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Robespierre never does.
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So
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And again, this makes him seem so unusual to his admirers as to kind of make him seem a unique figure.
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And again, it's kind of redolent of Plutarch, this idea of the heroes of the early Roman Republic, people who are completely austere in their personal habits, completely committed to principles of moral virtue.
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And he serves, I think, the revolution as a model of what civic and revolutionary virtue could be and can be.
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And ever since May 1791, he's been given this magnificent nickname, the incorruptible.
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He is not a man who is going to give up the fashions that he likes just to demonstrate his virtue.
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He doesn't need to do that.
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His virtue should be self-evident.
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And because he is seen as such an admirable person, he is the incorruptible.
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This reputation is going to prove an incredible asset for the Committee of Public Safety.
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because it serves as an assurance to good citizens everywhere that the committee shares in Robespierre's own moral probity.
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Robespierre's complete commitment to the procedures of the committee, to its workings, is evident from the moment that he joins it.
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So he attends all its meetings assiduously.
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