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

You want a nice, clear answer that explains everything. matched

And so there are two men on the committee in particular who are massive Robespierre fans. matched

And let's just look at them because they're going to play an important role in the story that we're going to be telling. matched

over the course of the terror. matched

So the first of these, Dominic, you quoted him several times in episode one. matched

It's a guy called Georges Couton. matched

So he's 38, so three years older than Robespierre when Robespierre joins the committee. matched

And he's a lawyer from the Averne in the South of France. matched

And all his life, he had suffered from bad joints. matched

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bad sinews. matched

Unfortunately, by 1793, he's effectively paralysed below the waist and he's confined to a wheelchair. matched

His doctors had diagnosed meningitis, but Couton himself blamed this condition on having had too much sex as a young man. matched

Whether he says that because it sounds matched

slightly more glamorous explanation for his condition than meningitis. matched

I don't know whether he genuinely believed it. matched

Did that weaken his joints? matched

Did that also explain the bad joints? matched

I don't know. matched

I wasn't aware that was a consequence of it, but maybe it is. matched

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