Tom Holland

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The Rest Is History · 707. The Terror: An Assassination in Paris (Part 1) · 20 Sep 2026 podcast

Because it's taken on Britain, it now risks the classic British technique in a war, which is to use the navy to impose an economic blockade. voice-verified

So that's not going to help with the French economy. voice-verified

And also the British fleet can move to areas on the coast in France that are counteracting. voice-verified

You the the vindictive peasants is interesting, though, isn't it? voice-verified

Because aristocrats, priests, um, gamekeepers, you can understand them being enemy of the people. voice-verified

But if if the peasantry aren't the people, then I don't really know what is. voice-verified

And there is, I guess, the kind of the emergence of metropolitan radicals feeling impatient with people in the country who are voice-verified

are too conservative for their tastes. voice-verified

And that's a theme that will run through revolutions beyond the French Revolution, right? voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

Yeah, voice-verified

And Danton plays a leading role in proposing and pushing that through, doesn't he? voice-verified

And a time will come when he may voice-verified

And when you say apocalyptic voice-verified

I mean, this is still an unbelievably Catholic Christian country, even if atheists are starting to seize the commanding heights of the revolution. voice-verified

And the sense of an apocalypse of um sheep and goats being divided up, uh good and evil, I think is hugely a part of the climate of the age. voice-verified

Um they they don't think of it in overtly theological. voice-verified

terms, but it is fundamentally theological, I think. voice-verified

the machine. voice-verified

I mean I think definitely unwittingly, because as we will see, so many of the people who are involved in setting up these institutions end up being devoured by it. voice-verified

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