Tom Holland

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The Rest Is History · 708. The Terror: The Reign of Robespierre (Part 2) · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

He goes in at seven o'clock in the morning to read and respond to dispatches. matched

He returns after a long day of business at eight o'clock in the evening. matched

He often stays late into the night. matched

And this is a huge commitment. matched

And it means that with Robespierre as the kind of example of what these committee members are expected to do, the committee very rapidly becomes the kind of beating heart of the revolution. matched

So its meetings are held in this green papered room in the Pavillon de Flore, which is a 17th century building that connected the Tuileries where the convention had its kind of headquarters in the Louvre. matched

And inevitably, the pavillon de flore has been renamed. matched

It's become the pavillon de l'égalité, the pavilion of equality. matched

And this room with its green wallpaper is basically now the nerve centre of the revolution. matched

And the mood in it is incredibly febrile. matched

It's fraught. matched

It's anxious. matched

The average age of the committee members is 30. matched

They're often... matched

absolutely tanked up on drink there's a general mood of panic yeah as well there might be because basically everything that could go wrong seems to be going wrong so we talked about it in the previous episode military crisis civil war inflation bread sort it is dominic it's like britain in 1974 uh matched

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So he has an explanation for what's been going wrong, but even more crucially, he has a solution. matched

So when you're in the midst of a crisis, you want someone who can give you what seems a plausible way out of it. matched

And this is what Robespierre does. matched

And it gradually enables him over the course of the weeks and the months that follow his ascension to the committee to take on an ever more preponderant role in it. matched

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