The Terror: The Reign of Robespierre (Part 2)
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The Terror: The Reign of Robespierre (Part 2)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 20261 hr 30 min
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Where did Maximilien Robespierre come from and what led him to rise from provincial obscurity to play a major role in the French Revolution? Why is he considered the central figure in the Reign of Terror? And how did a fastidious man opposed to violence become the chief proponent of bloodshed? Join Tom and Dominic as they describe how Maximilien Robespierre became one of the most powerful figures of the French Revolution, and his role in initiating the Terror, which saw thousands beheaded in Paris, and butchered throughout France. J...

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We are now, therefore, got to that black precipitous abyss, With all things have long been tending, Where, having now arrived on the giddy verge, They hurl down in confuted ruin, headlong pell-mell down, down, till Saint-Coulottism have consummated itself.

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And in this wondrous French Revolution, as in a doomsday, a world have been rapidly, if not born again, yet destroyed and engulfed. Terror has long been terrible, but to the actors themselves, it has now become manifest that their appointed course is one of terror.

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And they say, be it so. Qu'la terre soi l'autre du jour. Let terror be the order of the day. So what a dramatic moment,

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