Tom Holland

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

The needs of the Republic demand it. matched

Let's provide the legal instruments that will enable us to enforce it rather than having mobs going around murdering people in prisons. matched

That's basically it. matched

That's their kind of rationale. matched

And I think one shouldn't be cynical about it. matched

They think that this is for the best, I think. matched

So what does this mean in practice? matched

So on the 5th of September, they split up the Revolutionary Tribunal, which had been established a few months previously to try political prisoners. matched

They split it into four concurrent chambers, which means that they can expedite the processing of cases. matched

They decree that the judges and jurors who are trying these cases should be appointed by the committee themselves. matched

So that means that they can vet matched

who's going to be on these juries. matched

And following this, unsurprisingly, the acquittal rate drops precipitously. matched

So it increasingly becomes very unusual to be acquitted. matched

And then on the 17th of September, the key development, the law of suspects, it's called, matched

very notorious process of legislation because it vastly broadens the category of person who is liable for arrest. matched

Just to go through people who can now be arraigned under this law of suspects, nobles who had displayed a lack of patriotism and revolutionary zeal, émigrés, so people who had fled abroad, and government employees who have been discharged from office. matched

There are quite a few of those. matched

Anyone who lacks a certificate of good citizenship, and this certificate was something that is issued by the revolutionary authorities to serve as an identity card, but inevitably it has come to serve as well as a kind of an official stamp of ideological purity. matched

If you don't have one, then you are by definition a counter-revolutionary, so you need one. matched

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