Tom Holland

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

That means that when in 1764, when Maximilien was only six, she dies, the impact is felt by all four children as a completely crushing blow. matched

Maximilien in particular was devastated and throughout his adult life, whenever his mother was mentioned, tears would come to his eyes. matched

He would completely tear up. matched

Their father basically by now has vanished. matched

He is not the kind of man who is prepared to shoulder the burden of looking after four motherless children. matched

He vanishes from the scene. matched

And so the children end up being divided up between various relatives. matched

So the two girls go to live with their paternal aunts. matched

and the two boys, Maximilien and Augustin, go to live with their paternal grandparents who were the brewers. matched

Peter McPhee in his biography of Robespierre, brilliant biography, writes that although born into a long line of lawyers and officials, Maximilien was now to be brought up in a milieu of manual work with the sounds of carts and workers shouting in the local Picard dialect in the Rue Ronville. matched

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On the one hand, perhaps this is giving him a sense of identification with the workers, people who are working with their hands. matched

On the other hand, you can understand why he would perhaps have wanted to hold on to the outward signs of respectability. matched

Hence the clothes. matched

So I think there is a kind of... matched

intriguing tension there and definitely generates a sense of insecurity in him, as also does the fact that the same year that his mother dies, when he's six, he gets smallpox and it leaves his face kind of pockmarked. matched

So he's a little matched

Well, I think unsurprisingly, when you think of all the kind of tragedies he's been through, he's not a funster. matched

He grows up a very earnest, anxious, reserved little boy. matched

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