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Hello and welcome to revolutions.

Episode 3.39, the death of the Jacketons.

Last week, the fever finally broke. Robespierre's uncompromising and

murderous pursuit of virtue finally lined up too many of the un-virtuous

against him. The incorruptible had succeeded in never being corrupted, but it

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