Tom Holland

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

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absolutely tanked up on drink there's a general mood of panic yeah as well there might be because basically everything that could go wrong seems to be going wrong so we talked about it in the previous episode military crisis civil war inflation bread sort it is dominic it's like britain in 1974 uh matched

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So he has an explanation for what's been going wrong, but even more crucially, he has a solution. matched

So when you're in the midst of a crisis, you want someone who can give you what seems a plausible way out of it. matched

And this is what Robespierre does. matched

And it gradually enables him over the course of the weeks and the months that follow his ascension to the committee to take on an ever more preponderant role in it. matched

And it will turn out that Robespierre isn't just a man of the utmost moral probity, matched

not just a man with an unrivaled insight into the pathologies of the revolution, but also crucially a man who is absolutely brilliant at politics, and in fact probably better at politics than any other revolutionary in France. matched

This episode is supported by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. matched

Now, history's biggest leaps, many of them started as hard questions that people matched

Anthropic asked 100,000 people. matched

And what came back wasn't just fear. matched

There was hope as well. matched

People wanted to know, will cancer ever be cured? matched

Can kids have a better future? matched

It turns out that there is hope in hard questions. matched

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He admires Maurice Dupleix as a kind of example of... matched

The working classes for whom Robespierre is fighting, but also there is a Madame Dupleix and she has three daughters and they just fuss and fuss over Robespierre and he absolutely adores this. matched

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