Tom Holland

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53,183 appearances 201 recordings 9 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 3d ago

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

And it will turn out that Robespierre isn't just a man of the utmost moral probity, matched

not just a man with an unrivaled insight into the pathologies of the revolution, but also crucially a man who is absolutely brilliant at politics, and in fact probably better at politics than any other revolutionary in France. matched

This episode is supported by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. matched

Now, history's biggest leaps, many of them started as hard questions that people matched

Anthropic asked 100,000 people. matched

And what came back wasn't just fear. matched

There was hope as well. matched

People wanted to know, will cancer ever be cured? matched

Can kids have a better future? matched

It turns out that there is hope in hard questions. matched

He does. matched

He admires Maurice Dupleix as a kind of example of... matched

The working classes for whom Robespierre is fighting, but also there is a Madame Dupleix and she has three daughters and they just fuss and fuss over Robespierre and he absolutely adores this. matched

So to quote Charlotte, his sister, who was actually very jealous of the women in the Dupleix family, they expressed towards him the most vivid interest and surrounded him with their thousand delicate concerns. matched

He was extremely susceptible to all these sorts of things. matched

So he doesn't just have one Marcy Williams, he's got matched

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His relationship with them is above suspicion. matched

So pure. matched

Purely platonic. matched

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