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Robespierre’s brutal downfall

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Colin Jones tells the story of Maximilien Robespierre’s fall from power – a dramatic 24 hours that ended with the revolutionary titan facing the guillotine   Maximilien Robespierre awoke on the morning of 27 July 1794 as arguably the most powerful man in Paris – the intellectual driving force behind the French Revolution. Twenty-four hours later he was languishing in a cell, condemned to die by the guillotine. Author Colin Jones tells the story of these fateful 24 hours in Robespierre’s life – a day that would alter the trajectory of the French Revolution.   (Ad) Colin Jones is the author of The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris (Oxford University Press, 2021). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-hexpod&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-fall-of-robespierre%2Fcolin-jones%2F9780198715955 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:26.3

And remember, it's just between us.

0:47.0

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

1:02.1

I'm Ellie Cawthorne. In the summer of 1794, Maximilian Robspierre was one of the most respected,

1:08.7

influential and feared figures in revolutionary Paris. Yet over the preceding months, he had made some powerful enemies.

1:16.2

And as dawn broke on the 27th of July, these foes were plotting to make their move.

1:21.7

In his new book, The Fall of Robespierre, 24 hours in Revolutionary Paris, the author Colin Jones tells the story of the day in which Robespierre was toppled from power.

1:28.6

He told production editor Spentemism about 24 hours that changed the course of French history.

1:35.0

Colin, your new book, The Fall of Robespierre, 24 hours in Revolutionary Paris, tells the story

1:42.6

of the thankful of one of the towering figures of the

1:45.0

French Revolution. Now, for me, what really makes a book stand out is the fact that it provides

1:50.6

an hour-by-hour account of 27th of July 1794, the last full day of Rosebeer's life. Offering history

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