Tom Holland

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

restored to the throne. matched

And I think that the m the monarchy, essentially, as it had been constituted for centuries and centuries and centuries, has perished more surely amid the darkness of that cell than it than it had done on the scaffold. matched

But Dominic, um we've been saying how Ebert is going to be getting into trouble. matched

So what about him? matched

And what about Robespierre? matched

What's what's been happening to them and to the course of the revolution while poor Louis Charles Capet's been fading away in the darkness of the temple? matched

And those questions we are going to be answering, aren't we, in our next episode? matched

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

Yes. matched

So Carlyle casts it as this kind of immense, unstoppable terror. matched

conflagration that consumes all in its path and even its own profits. matched

So Saturn devouring its own children, we talked about that in our first episode. matched

And also, Dominic, in our first episode, we talked about how for the British and perhaps for the Anglophone world more generally, the terror matched

is really what the revolution is all about. matched

And it's not a coincidence that Carlyle was a massive influence on Charles Dickens, who said that he'd read it 500 times, Carlyle's book on the French Revolution. matched

And so it's his principal source for Tale of Two Cities, which is amazing, the best-selling novel in English. matched

That is the novel that's imprinted this idea of the revolution as being equivalent to terror, I think, in the British imagination. matched

And this is where our sense of it as matched

streams of blood, tumbrils, all of that that we were talking about yesterday comes from. matched

And I would say that in Britain, far more than any other European country, the terror is actually seen almost as synonymous with the French Revolution itself. matched

So actually, in a lot of European countries, there is an emphasis on the more progressive elements of the revolution. matched

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