Tom Holland

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

So to quote Charlotte, his sister, who was actually very jealous of the women in the Dupleix family, they expressed towards him the most vivid interest and surrounded him with their thousand delicate concerns. matched

He was extremely susceptible to all these sorts of things. matched

So he doesn't just have one Marcy Williams, he's got matched

But... matched

His relationship with them is above suspicion. matched

So pure. matched

Purely platonic. matched

And his own room is very, very Spartan, which is exactly how he likes it. matched

So there's a bed, there's a writing table, there's some bookshelves, absolutely nothing else. matched

So it is a suitably ascetic retreat for the incorruptible. matched

Nobody ever hints at any impropriety in Robespierre's relationship with the women of the Dupley family. matched

Just going to emphasise that. matched

So he's in his room. matched

And that evening, he sits down at his desk and he ponders the terrible crisis that is facing France and the revolution. matched

So there are foreign armies on French soil, the Austrians, the Prussians. matched

There is a British naval blockade. matched

There is a mass insurrection in Vendée. matched

We heard about that in the last episode. matched

There are counter-revolutionary uprisings, federalist uprisings, historians call them, in cities that include Lyon, Marseille, and crucially, the great naval base of Toulon, where the British Navy is... matched

hovering on the margins. matched

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