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

And these words carry massive weight with the sans-culottes and the enragés because Chaumet is not some nobody from the slums. matched

He is effectively the chief legal and administrative officer in the Paris Commune, which is basically the municipal government of the capital. matched

And on the 5th of September, Chaumet leads a march on the convention. matched

So this is the day after he'd given that rabble-rousing speech. matched

And a great crowd of mustachioed orages follow him, cheering, singing patriotic songs, waving slogans and banners, war on tyrants, war on aristocrats, all of that. matched

And they arrive in the convention and Chaumet leads them on a kind of invasion of the convention. matched

And inside he delivers a petition on behalf of the demonstrators who are massed at his back. matched

And then he gives a lengthy speech. matched

And when he finishes this speech, matched

Upstands Barré and he gives that momentous slogan with which we began this episode, let terror be the order of the day. matched

And Barré goes on to say, let us be in revolution because everywhere counter-revolution is being woven by our enemies. matched

The blade of the law should hover over all the guilty. matched

Now, Robespierre, he is president of the convention at the time. matched

He actually finds the invasion of the patishas unsettling rather than inspiring. matched

He's a stickler for propriety. matched

He doesn't really approve of this action from the streets. matched

But with his customary acuity, he's very quick to take advantage of this proclamation that terror should be the order of the day. matched

As we said, it doesn't become an official motion matched

of the convention, but it's taken on matched

Yeah, they're saying, okay, you want terror and we agree. matched

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