EPISODE · Jul 12, 2022 · 18H 45M
The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris [Written by Colin Jones]
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris Author: Colin Jones Narrator: Sasha Higgins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris Author: Colin Jones Narrator: Sasha Higgins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: 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.
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