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The Fall of Robespierre

24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

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The Fall of Robespierre

By: Colin Jones
Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
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The day of 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12:00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced.

By 12:00 midnight at the close of the day, following a day of uncertainty, surprises, upsets and reverses, his world had been turned upside down. He was an outlaw, on the run, and himself wanted for conspiracy against the Republic. He felt that his whole life and his Revolutionary career were drawing to an end. As indeed they were. He shot himself shortly afterwards. Half-dead, the guillotine finished him off in grisly fashion the next day.

The Fall of Robespierre provides an hour-by-hour analysis of these twenty-four hours.

©2021 Colin Jones (P)2022 Tantor 18th Century Europe France Military Modern French Revolution
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The book is pretty much just reading out the diaries of ppl that lived during the time of the great terror. As in reading them out verbatim, which really shit me and if that shits u too then find another. There’s plenty on the subject, I recommend great course reliving Doris g the time of the French Revolution

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