Tom Holland
speaker
53,948 appearances
205 recordings
9 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 2d ago
Tom Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He doesn't need to do that.
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His virtue should be self-evident.
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And because he is seen as such an admirable person, he is the incorruptible.
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This reputation is going to prove an incredible asset for the Committee of Public Safety.
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because it serves as an assurance to good citizens everywhere that the committee shares in Robespierre's own moral probity.
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Robespierre's complete commitment to the procedures of the committee, to its workings, is evident from the moment that he joins it.
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So he attends all its meetings assiduously.
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He goes in at seven o'clock in the morning to read and respond to dispatches.
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He returns after a long day of business at eight o'clock in the evening.
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He often stays late into the night.
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And this is a huge commitment.
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And it means that with Robespierre as the kind of example of what these committee members are expected to do, the committee very rapidly becomes the kind of beating heart of the revolution.
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So its meetings are held in this green papered room in the Pavillon de Flore, which is a 17th century building that connected the Tuileries where the convention had its kind of headquarters in the Louvre.
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And inevitably, the pavillon de flore has been renamed.
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It's become the pavillon de l'égalité, the pavilion of equality.
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And this room with its green wallpaper is basically now the nerve centre of the revolution.
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And the mood in it is incredibly febrile.
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It's fraught.
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It's anxious.
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The average age of the committee members is 30.
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