Tom Holland

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The Rest Is History · 709. The Terror: The Execution of Marie Antoinette (Part 3) · 27 Sep 2026 podcast

deliberately not very filling. matched

They're basically a a couple of bowls of soup a day with a husk of bread, perhaps a lump of of kind of gristle and and meat. matched

No lantern is allowed after dusk, so he spends hours and hours in pitch darkness. matched

He's allowed no change of clothes, so he is wearing the same clothes day after day, month after month, that he was wearing when he was first immured in this cell. matched

And there are no toilet facilities, so people can. matched

Imagine how, as the months go by, how squalid his living uh conditions are. matched

And in fact, the room becomes so filled with vermin that there were occasions where the poor boy would not eat his meals because the food would attract the vermin. matched

The vermin would then leave him alone and allow him to snatch a few hours' sleep. matched

And a guard notices this and says, Well, why aren't you eating your food? matched

And the boy replied, Well, what would you do, my friend? matched

I want to die. matched

And so in due course he does, because he is kept in the cell for six months and then he's released. matched

But he never really recovers from the the kind of horrific experience of his solitary confinement. matched

For those six months, he had been covered in his his own excrement, his own waist, his clothes. matched

Yeah, he had matched

Kind of rotting away on his body. matched

And when he comes out, he is so covered in sores and pustules, and he's got tumours and parasites. matched

And his only joy, really, is his the tame birds that he keeps as pets. matched

And there's kind of bitter irony there because Robespierre, as a small boy, had kept birds as pets. matched

Bitter. matched

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