r/TheRestIsHistory

I’m aware of how it turned out, I’ve read Schama and listen to the podcast, but to me Robespierre is one of the most magnetic personalities in world history. Yeah he turned into a psycho, but he was so ahead of his time and so magnetic for years before his demise. Him and Jefferson to me our two of the greatest thinkers of their generation.

After downloading the last episode on the French Revolution today, I listened to it on the train on the way home.

I think it could be one of their best. While I haven’t listened to all of them, the drama around Robespierre’s death built up to such a crescendo!

I chuckled that whenever the guy in the wheelchair was mentioned, Tom would pipe up, “Too much sex!”

That building is the Conciergerie where Marie, her son , and many others were imprisoned awaiting execution.