The Pacifist who Killed 20,000 | The Life & Times of Robespierre
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Kevin Macleod - Winner Winner
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Vivaldi - Winter I. Allegro Non Molto
Souichi Sakagami - Rainy Day
Karl Jenkins - Palladio
Kevin Macleod - Feral Chase
Kevin Macleod - Western Streets
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Gustav Holst - Mars, Bringer of War
Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
Kevin Macleod - To the Ends
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This video turned out to be quite a lot. Turns out there's like 100 years of history between 1793 and 1794! We shall see how I handle the next 20 years... stay tuned for part 3!
"Head to."
Hair loss joke, or guillotine joke?
@Ricky Poon You tell me! Come to think of it, disappointed I didn't manage to sneak more beheading jokes into my ad spot this time
Please do a Lafayette viedo
This video was highly amusing. Great job.
Napoleon?
“You’ll guillotine every last man in Paris, until there’s no one left but you and a very nervous executioner”
Probably the best line in the video
I laughed very loudly at that 😂
Comedy gold
Bars
Executioner looks nervous: "Should I be concerned?"
Mas: "Only if your GUILTY, EXECUTE HIM:
Executioner begins to cry : "I CANT"
I think he based that line from a paper of the time depicting Robespierre guillotining the executioner in front of a triangle tombstone with "Tout de la France (All of France)" written in it.
The guy who wanted to abolish the death penalty abolished every penalty except for the death penalty. Good job max. Good job.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Well he took France to literal hell, so his intentions must be Jesus tier.
@@Willys-Wagon i mean it was.
How would you deal with the Negative Nancys, bucko?
@@Willys-Wagon They were. He was called "Incorruptible" and shit. He's known to cry over pigeons and championed the rights of the common man.
All that earlier goodness probably just got him high off the smell of his own farts. He was so good? _No one could meet his standards._ Not even other Revolutionaries.
"Sure, he may be a little extreme, but it's not like Robespierre thinks he's God."
(Robespierre appears on top of a mountain with a toga)
"My children! Bow down in the virtue of my republic!"
"Yeah, he's lost it."
We can make a religion out of this!
@@adrianoarne-ritz249No, don’t.
@@jcplays3842 doubting the Glorious republic?
TO THE GUILLOTINE!
@@thesymbiotenation.4552 * “Republic”
@@adrianoarne-ritz249 He did.
The story goes that, during his trial, Robespierre was -- reasonably enough -- accused of the murder of Danton, among other things. He had fallen sick, and the constituents shouted: "Danton's blood is choking you!" To that, Robespierre shouted back: "You liked Danton better than me? You cowards! Then why did none of you speak out for him?"
Reminds me of Khrushchev making a speech upon his ascension to power. Somebody supposedly shouted "Where were you when all of this was happening?!" referring to Stalin's terror.
Khrushchev asked "Who said that?!"
Nobody answered.
Khrushchev continued "That's where I was.
robespierre didn't kill danton lmao
@@ashalaska3685 I mean, he didn't directly cut his head off but damned if he wasn't at least somewhat responsible
@@ashalaska3685 he didn't directly, but he did order his execution
@@Axolotl_Boba_123 no he didn't he didn't have the power to order anyone's execution. the committee he was on dealt with arrests, not sentencing.
Tldr Robespierre just went absolutely batshit supervillain level insane
We should make a religion out of this!
No dont
@@AbrahamLincoln4 We can call it the Cult of THE Supreme Being or something like that!
Also had an incredible character arc that ended in a extremely karmic death.
He lived long enough to see himself become the villain
“The People are the enemy of the people” That sounds like an Ingsoc slogan.
Well, he was a proto-communist.
@@zawarudo596 lol wtf, no. the french revolution spread CAPITALISM across europe, not communism. he was a fascist dictator.
@@cageybee7221 What is fascism?
@@cageybee7221 My man, this person was in no way fascist, you just think he is cause he did bad things. He was just a speech writer who forgot to take his normal pills.
@@cageybee7221 By definition Robespierre was a Communist, he wanted to make the will of the people the law, at the same time as he erased any and all things that stood between the state and the people, Robespierre basically created a Communist State with himself representing the people. There is the argument that Napoleon spread the seeds of capitalism and liberalism in Europe by the puppet nationalistic states, but that's another topic.
“Le Bas kills himself with a pistol and hands it to Robespierre”
You have no idea how much I have been contemplating this sentence.
Why?
@@nathanseper8738 Because a dead man can't pass a pistol to anyone xD
Probalbly shot him self in the chest
@@Capsuleer7He shoots himself and with the little time he has left he gives it to him then dies. Maybe
@@Capsuleer7thats just muscle memory kicking in. he must have handed over 100 pistols after using them.
The writers are going to have be careful killing off all the characters. Wouldn't want to have introduce a whole new protagonist in the final season! Like imagine if they added a Corsican General turn Consul turned Dictator turned Emperor who ends the French revolutionary project and brings massive war and devastation to the all of Europe while finding time to reform the legal colds and sow the seeds of the national movements that created the modern Europeans states we know today.
That'd just be too contrived!
And they'll add this weird joke about him being short even though he was above average height for his time or something.
And don't forget he did it the second time as well
Ugh another person who didn't bother to actually pay attention while reading the war chapters. They obviously foreshadowed him and the coming to power
@@TheSirCrown And he'll do it again sacre bleu
Actually, Napoleon was five feet two, considerably shorter than average even for that time.
“you can’t just kill anyone you disagree with” Robespierre “how about I do anyway”
"You could make a religion out of this-"
"No, don't."
Yep i know many nowadays who are like that.
@@Julianna.Domina we are allready there its called Far left & identity polatics. That is the new religion of this day and age. which is pretty scairy.
@@e.jenima7263 are you really going to get political over a Bill Wurtz reference
@@e.jenima7263 lol what?
the classic case of living long enough to become the villain
Alternatively, it’s a classic case of a future tyrant riding a wave of hatred towards tradition and uses the populace’s malice as a means of achieving absolute power.
Robespierre was never a villain
@@thoththeegyptian4445 sure bc the nonsense he pulled by beaheading tens of thousands was 100% not a villain move
No, Robespierre was a naive idealist and radical. VIVE LE ROI!
He was evil from the start
Not gonna lie, a bloody, hanging mouth deranged madman screaming bloody murder as his jaw hangs and swings loosely like it's been stapled on as a guillotine silences him sounds fucking terrifying and like an origin story for like some ghost from an urban legend. Seeing how Robespierre was, though, I'm surprised he hasn't become a ghostly urban legend yet by himself.
Imaging walking the streets of old Paris and you hear a pained scream behind you and there floating is the jawless head of an 18th century revolutionary
@@chadbusch8541 I'd be relieved
This is by far the most poetic episode - the descriptions of Robespierre’s trial and final moments, his journey from a progressive revolutionary to the enemy he hated the most, and his ironic fate.
"his journey from a progressive revolutionary to the enemy he hated the most"
A rather common tale that one lol
@@liquidsnake6879 indeed
That's the real biopic we need.
Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts.. Thars why we need constitutions and term limits...
He was always a progressive revolusionary
Robespierre: sends Paris to the Guillotine
Paris:sends Robespierre to the Guillotine
Robespierre: "Wait a minute-"
Robespierre: "You're not suppose to do that!"
Paris “I’m going to do a pro gamer move”
Guillotine: Send Paris to the Robespierre
*There's A Tax For That!*
"Chop, chop, chop, chop, chop chop, chop."
-Robespierre, maybe.
"To the guillotine!"-Also Robespierre, maybe.
Both also definitely from oversimplified
@@zalaweyker8007 There is a tax for that
Ohhh nooo Robespierre
"chop, chop, chop"
Robespierre🤝The Boondocks intro
"I hear chopping but I don't hear digging" - Robespierre, probably.
Way back in high school in Western Civ, we got to the French Revolution. Our teacher assigned us roles as the important people during that time and I got Robespierre himself and here's exactly how it went.
Teach: "And you'll be Robespierre, the main head of the Revolution."
Me: "Awesome."
Teach: "He will go mad with power I should mention."
Me: *heavy sad sigh* "Yeah, I would do that."
Teach: "Well good thing for you is you realized your mistake. Robespierre? Not so much."
your teacher lied to you
@@ashalaska3685
What teacher has not lied to their students?
Although the thing you claim he lied is wrong
How? He went absolutely insane!
@@desmondcoppin591 he did not in fact go absolutely insane. please read an actual accredited book on the matter.
@@ashalaska3685 he did. He pretty much proclaimed himself a god. That sounds very insane imo.
The funny thing here is that the Sanson family of executioners lasted for 50+ more years after executing Robespierre (the Sansons were also the ones who executed the royal family). That family is so resilient, going with the flow of changing governments, executing the previous ones, and so on.
If any one family ever had a reason to become cynicals...
Is the line still alive?
The safest position on the field of politics is the referee it seems.
"Lebas kills himself with a pistol *and* hands it to Robespierre." I guess Lebas didn't want to let Max "down".
People die when they are killed.
Not the only incorrect fact in this cartoon. its all slanderous untrue satire or propaganda by Robespierres enemies that survived him.
Depending on how he shot himself he could've handed it over afterwards. Even a headshot can take minutes or hours to become fatal
@@Powersnufkin Good god, the French Revolution has Tankies?! (Guilloties?)
@@StormShadowHarris there's a reply two comments above this claiming the whole revolution was a grand conspiracy by freemasons to stop the glory of monarchies or something you'll find authoritarian apologists on any topic it's mindblowing
“Why be based on the will of the people?”
_Robespierre glances at the guillotine_
“When I can be based?”
Based on what?
Based
@@White_Recluse Based is memespeak for fascist now.
Based
@Miki Cerise Based
Robespierre: The most frustrating character from the annals of history for me. He should have been the Father of his nation... BUT NO! He gets France's Bloody Mary slot. Well done Monsieur. Well done.
to me he kind of shows how badly the American revolution could have gone if Washington was a different man.
truly a wasted opportunity for something more.
@@Jerkfaceman Very true. Many popular revolutions go dreadfully wrong!
I spent a great deal of time trying to get inside Robespierre's head, but nothing feels right.
Two ideas do work though. Mercury poisoning, or syphilis. And given that the former was a treatment for the later both could be true as well. His physical health at death had some maladies that sounded like syphilis as well.
@@Jerkfaceman and remember there were men keen to make Washington a King.
Thank goodness that man's ego wasn't so big that he considered that a good idea and stayed true to his ideals, for his time.
@@Jerkfaceman the american revolution was the exception to the rule. Usually revolution only kills a ton of people and makes things only worse than what came before
@@matthiasbindl7085 I agree, but we need to remember that it was technically a war of independence not really a revolution.
The US Constitution was very progressive for it's time that true, but the idea behind were not especially unprecedented, just the first one to be left alone ... Kind of.
14:55 “kills himself with a pistol then hands it to Robespierre” lmao I’m dead
RELEASE THE EXTENDED CUT! We, the people, demand a 30min Robespierre video, or we’ll introduce you to our good friend Joseph-Ignace Guillotine!
Me thinks the monseur is WORRIED about the Final Cut! WORRIED I TELL YOU! TO THE GUILLOTINE!
AYE!
The extended cut is practically NECESSARY to understanding Robespierre. The guy is like a Batman villain - he was a good guy right up until the point where he wasn't any more.
I don't know. Are you trying to rile the people up into a riot, potentially in an attempt to overthrow the government in the process? TOO THE GUILLOTINE!!!
@@Madrigal025
Monsieur?! That’s the old greeting! TO THE GUILLOTINE!
"The problem with guillotineing all enemys of the people, is that you eventually run out of people."
-Robbespierre
Hah!
😆
Enemies
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
-Nietzsche
This is why conquering, or at least familiarizing yourself with your shadow is so important. Simply ignoring the darkness inside yourself will only allow it to fester in your subconscious, and then eventually in life when you least expect it you will be confronted by a truly vexing moral puzzle, and you may just surprise yourself how you solve it... You may not even recognize yourself by the end...
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-Lincoln
Can't wait for the final part, great work as always.
True that.
Good man
"A man's true character is revealed when he knows that he will never be caught"
Nietzsche's words needs to be a reminder for anyone who wants to serve in the armed forces for war brings out the best and the worse of us.
I don't think I give that much care to Nietzsche's opinions on the process of becoming a monster.
I love the bookending of this video with Louis XVI and Robespierre's executions. I find it so poetic that the fat, treacherous dullard of a king, a man who called for his enemies to invade his own country and couldn't be bothered to stop playing with his toy locks long enough to make sure the peasants had food, delivers a profound warning with his final few breaths, whereas the scholarly, eloquent lawyer who committed his life so wholly to empowering the people that he couldn't see how he was becoming more dangerous to them than the king ever was, can do little more than scream incoherently when his own time comes. Louis, for all his flaws, went out with as much dignity befitting a king as he could get under the circumstances, whereas Robespierre went out like the mad, frothing lunatic he had reduced himself to after having, quite literally, shot his own mouth off one too many times in the name of the people and his precious revolution.
Rimshot
Robespierre was also a raving madman, he just hid it better in the beginning.
No💀
@@Sky97260 pardon moi ?
Don't forget, Louis' vote was almost a tie, Max's was almost unanimous
It seems as if everyone lost their heads over the French Revolution.
I’ll see myself out.
do you do comedy?
@@kenrudd6362 YES
*TO THE GUILLOTINE* !!!!
Lol🤣 no stay.........!
Dude, what a bad joke. Go ask "madame deficit" for some advise about comedy........... I'll see myself out.
How much of what Demoulon said at the trial was true?
Because “burning my criticisms dosent answer them.”
And “all that will be left is you and a nervous executioner are some pretty badass lines to go out on.
"Burning my criticisms isn't answering them" is allegedly something he actually said! He was quoting Rousseau if I recall correctly, who was someone he and Robespierre both looekd up to. As for "no one but you and an executioner" that one was my own invention but based off of a political cartoon featuring Robespierre beheading the executioner after everyone else in France was dead
@@JackRackam everything the assembly did was establish a republic. And tens of thousands died for this cause. Then Napoleon came and made all that chaos and sacrifice pointless. All he had to do was hold a vote by the people and would of won. But once he crowned himself emperor. Democracy was thrown out completely.
@@GodsThirdEye the people of France had, by that point, proved themselves very incapable of running a functional democracy. Napoleon didn’t kill the Republic, the Republic killed itself.
@@mattmacaulay2900 your both right I think, the republic had failed long before Napoleon showed up but it wouldn’t have been beyond salvation if he hadn’t decided he was the only person capable to lead France, which may have been true, but he took that power of decision away from the people and put it in his own hands.
@@seanmcloughlin5983 Napoleon was the Caesar figure at that point anyway. It was inevitable that someone like him would come along.
Honestly Robespierre has an incredible Corruption Arc. He started off so good!
wait til you learn about something called Thermidorian propaganda and how history really is written by the winners.
I'm going to have a corruption arc if people keep spreading thermidorian propaganda online
@@ashalaska3685 History is written by historians.
Many times those historians are on the side of the winners, but it is not seldom too that the historians are on the losing side.
When the historians on the side of the losers, the history is even more ... full of sh*t. As an example, just try to read the history of the great Pacific War in Japanese school textbook.
@@ashalaska3685"Yknow what this sounds like?! LONDON PROPAGANDA!"
@@ashalaska3685Oh no a Robespierre simp. Go away will you.
Robespierre failing to kill himself is rather poetic. The deaths of so many he caused, only to fail to kill himself and share the same fate as those he killed.
As a Frenchman, it fills me with pleasure to see others like you are also interested in this era of history! I make first-hand account videos about historical moments, many of which are from the French Revolution, Robespierre, Louis XVI ect... (and all of its gruesome executions). If you have the time and are passionate about the subject, I’d love to know if you enjoy the videos I’ve made! Merci, all the best!! I recommend specifically my videos on Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and Napoleon:)
@@RelivingHistory1
Cool, yeah I'll check your videos out, I appreciate it 🙏
Cheers! So much can be learnt through history, I wish more people studied it nowadays.@@thalmoragent9344
@@RelivingHistory1I'm American but always found the French monarchy era very interesting
Gives new meaning to the phrase 'You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain'.
Yeah, it seems he started with the best intentions. But it seems he went mad with power
@@MilloSpiegel
of course he did. ever try going mad without power? it's terrible no one listens to ya.
@@Jerkfaceman That doesnt work that way. Most people who get power are already mad, either because something made them seek out such power, or because something happened on the way to obtain that power. Also
a)it is said the road to hell is built on good intentions(i dont really believe in hell, but there isnt an absolute universal good that would benefit all, or please everyone at that)
b)“The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form- kafka.
c) if you know the enemy and know yourself , you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.. These 2. A point likely was reached where he had to make some very hard choices to keep the royals out of power. If you think about it, it DID work in the long run.. but back to 1/2
It was a simpsons movie reference.
No it doesn't, good historians hate these retarded literary quips
Chilling Stuff, Robespierre’s finals days, after he shot himself his jaw apparently hung to his mouth barely and he would have been in so much pain for about a day or two.
Sorting fitting in a twisted way.
@Xavier Lecaros Yeah, pretty much. Luckily he didn't succeed. He needed to suffer deeply for the nonsense he pulled.
From what I've seen, if he hadn't gotten crazy with power, France probably could've been a beacon for Democracy in Europe.
Jack, didn’t talk about Hanriot(I mean I don’t blame him) but his death is so interesting I thought I’d share
Hanriot trying to escape like his fate jumped out a third story window and either fell in or crawled into a sewer grate. He was there for 12 hours before anyone found him there. Brutal stuff
Karma
Damn, this is more depressing than the last video.
Almost poetic
The very worm tongue that incited so much death and suffering upon others, being forever shut, after a blood curdling scream, incapable of speaking.
Talk about divine justice
"The people are the enemy of the people" - this is my favorite line from now on.
So... the mindset of Xi and Putin and... Castro lol
@@erikt3162 Castro did nothing wrong
AM I OUT OF TOUCH?
NO IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT ARE!
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
I know it’s been over a year, But this is by far my absolute favorite video you have made.
It’s historicity, The humor, The editing, The dramatic weight. The way you portrayed the total Chaos of the French Revolution here is phenomenal, and I just wanted to give credit where it’s due
Agreed!
I’ll be disappointed if there isn’t a literal mountain of heads
Possibly in their very own underground Catacombs, or so it is assumed.
Marat was also crazier than him (perhaps they were envious of Tamerlane)
Isn't there a place in Paris full of skulls?
@@San-li9ml you mean... Paris?
@@aleisterlavey9716 r/technicallythetruth
Robespierre: Uses guillotine to buttress both his regime’s power and his own
National Assembly: Sends Robespierre to guillotine
Robespierre: *jaw drops in shock*
well his jaw did drop quite literally lmao.
@@xFirtewx
Yes
That is the joke
Robespierre: OOOoOoh NOoOoOo!!!
The convention
Robespierre never sentenced a SINGLE person to death. The committee he was on was for ARREST WARRANTS, not death sentences. I'm getting sick as hell hearing this over and over again.
“ I think we should send Robespierre to the guillotine”
“All in favor?”
*everyone raises their hand*
Robespierre: “oh no!”😖😖😖
oversimplified is one of the best history recap channel imo
Poor thing did nothing wrong and everyone sends maxie to the guillotine. 😢
I just want to say that Jack's voice acting and script writing is on point this episode! These Robespierre monologues make me want a whole 6 season long prestige TV show about the revolution.
And this shit is why no one in France complained when Napoleon crowned himself emperor.
At a certain point people just want their lives to go back to normal and if a tyrant can do that for them they will sing his praises all the way into office.
lots of people did, but nobody who mattered cared
Damn, that's kinda sad.
That's not how it actually happened. It was the people who were carrying out the terror. Bonaparte stepped in to put an end to it, to consolidate the power of the new rich class of businessmen, merchants and the early industrialists, who were as much the targets of the terror as the nobility. The people enforced fixed prices and would search out to see if they were hoarding and such.
Napoleon is not a tyran im french and we all love him
@@leroiarouf1142 not exactly sure how that's relevant. Are you a time traveller?
“I have in my hand a brand new list of enemies to be sent to the guillotine. And many of you are on this list! But I’m not gonna tell you who yet. What do you think of that!”
“Iiii think that we should send Robespierre to the guillotine first. All in favor?”
* unanimous agreement*
“OooOOoh NoOOoOo!!!”
-Robespierre’s trial, Paris July 26, 1794.
A man of culture I see
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"All in favor?" YES, said Senator McCarthy! I am unanimous in my vote.
surprising reality!!! oversimplified youtube is not a good nor nuanced source!!!
@@ashalaska3685it's a joke. Again. You humorless German.
14:53
“Kills himself with a pistol and hands it to Robespierre”
Even in death, he knows what must be done
Good catch. It's my 4th time watching it and never caught it until I saw your comment.
"Remember who you are."
Robespierre is such a cautionary tale, of how ideals quickly go from “no death penalty,” to “ok, a few aristocrats and the King - who are a true threat” to “anyone, even everyday people, who are an enemy,” to “anyone who criticizes me, even fellow revolutionaries, get the death penalty.”
Talk about a slippery slope.
When you let wild idealism take over your mind, reality becomes the enemy.
Compromise your morals once you can compromise again. And again. And again.
What Robespierre meant is "other people can't execute people ... but I can."
Peasant: "Ehm but I think the Revolutionary Government isn't good enough no-"
Robespierre: *"GUILLOTINE TIME!"*
*CHOP CHOP CHOP*
This isn't history, this is horror.
That ending was legit bone chilling
This is fiction
@@TheHowlingEye what?
@@benjaminwinnie4626 Robespierre was made a scapegoat of the Committee by the people who overthrew him. 20, 000 deaths is a totally fictional number
human history and horror are the same
"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty." By Maximilien Robespierre
Fun thing to mention: Robespierre had an extended sick leave between his period of opposing the death penalty, and switching to all-out "kill all the political enemies!". Some speculate the sick leave was somehow involved.
Maybe he became delirious and went insane from a fever. A lot of people back then would go crazy after surviving a disease or injury. Like, a complete personality change.
He did not "kill all the political enemies", as all his biggest political enemies outlived him.
@@ashalaska3685 I didn't claim he was very good at it. His enemies did get him in the end.
@@InTaco7 He also didn't WANT to kill all his political enemies. We have no records claiming he ever said such.
@@ashalaska3685 he sure did try though
I was expecting an Oversimplified reference, but instead I noticed buried deep within the review you used the musical accompaniment that History Buffs uses for his videos.
"A surprize to be sure, but a welcomed one."
Yes!!! I have been trying to find that track
It's Escala's version of 'Palladio', by Karl Jenkins
For a song inspired by an architect, it's pretty metal
Now here is a man, who knew how to keep his head in the game. I'll leave.
That would be Talleyrand. The guy started his political carreer under Louis XVI and cruises through the different French regimes until he died of old age in 1838.
@@teecee1827 I love tally rand that lucky bastard
Keeps*
to a STANDING OVATION
“you can’t just kill anyone you disagree with”
Robespierre: *And I took that personally*
"Dear. When the enemy is at the gates. Even when their voices roar like thunder, even when they number more than the hairs on your head, you must remember. There is always something you can do.
BOOK IT, GO GO GO!" - King Louis
So this is the origin of the Joestar technique.
Me: I will wake up and complete all my tasks for today.
Life: sounds like moderate talk. Get him!
"You could make a religion out of..."
"No...don't".
I have to do an essay on Robespierre. everyone in the class got a different French Revolution character to research. Robespierre makes everything so complicated. even his name is hard to spell, not to mention the 15 minute video on him!
Kinda poetic that the man responsible for making France utter blood-curdling screams during his Reign of Terror would go out in that precise manner.
robespierre never sent anyone to the guillotine (I am 100% dead serious, the committee of public safety did not issue death warrants). youtube is not a good source to learn about these things.
The ending of the video was so insane, you couldn’t make it up.
Imagine you’re about to die and you have something to say but your jaw falls off so you scream for ten seconds before you die
imagine you miss work for six weeks and your coworkers come up with a murder conspiracyt about you
Jack you nailed the slow decline into insanity the Robespierre went through it felt like a movie by far your best video to date
He didn't even have an accident like Henry 8th. It seems his madness came from power alone.
"The Revolution Devours her own Children"
I got the impression that those moderates might have been up to something...
louis sound so smart and nice on your videos. i love how each person shows a historic character in a different way
Louis should really be celebrated as a hero especially in the US, as it was his french naval fleet's intervention which significantly altered the battle for American independence in favour of the Continental Army
Not only that but Lafayette was THE guy who commanded the French fleet and likewise should be celebrated, cause without French assistance the American Revolution would never have succeeded
*On a small side note*
The failure of the CSA to gain any foreign allies like big sister USA did was a significant reason why their own bid for independence through force likewise failed
And No. The French did not plan to send help to the CSA through Mexico. Napoleon III simply just wanted to claim parts of the new world before the Americans would cease to be distracted and enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
The French defeat by the Mexicans at the 1st battle of Puebla, was not a French relief force to the CSA, because the 2nd time the French sent a force of 20,000 to Puebla and were victorious and conquered the rest of Mexico. In the time they held Mexico they never bothered to send any assistance to the CSA
@@rejvaik00 louis capet was a tyrant.
"If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at the same time [both] virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent. *Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice* ; it is therefore an emanation of virtue."
-Maximilian Robespierre
that's the stuff
This man had a severe blindness to the differences between peace and war. The two became inseparable in his head. What a sad man.
I might be dumb, but what the fuck dose that even mean?
@@LoganSearles it means that a lunatic with delusions of "Revolution" had a lot of mostly innocent people killed in his quest for power and control.
@@overboss9599 okay so I’m not dumb he is just crazy.
Dictators often end badly, but this is one of the few cases of a dictator facing some poetic justice/karma.
He never became a dictator though, he never ruled unchallenged
@@brunaciompi1717 He was more of a scummy agitator and ideologue.
I've watched and re-watched this episode like 20 times already and I still love it
Going from the peoples hero to terrifying villain any % speedrun
scapegoating this guy so we don't get in trouble for misusing our government positions any% speedrun
The issue with Robespierre is he was tragically obsessed with the ideology of Rousseau and universal virtue, which was nice in theory but when the universal virtue didn't come out in practice he tried to root out the supposedly corrupt individuals that were ruining the inherent virtue of the people.
In many ways he was right - a lot of the terror, for example, was an attempt to centralise the utterly insane local Jacobin terrors in the departments and he opposed the insanely deranged Herbertist movement (also, a lot of the corruption arguments against the Girondins and Dantonists weren't ... completely unfounded, which goes to show that sometimes being "anti-corruption" isn't enough for politicians). I think at one stage his mind genuinely broke in 1793, to the extent you can see a marked change from the cautious lawyer to the demented purity seeker with his cult of the supreme being.
Robespierre still is a controversial individual to this day here in France. You have those that see him as this "Incorruptible Revolutionary", against those to whom he was just a bloodthirsty tyrant. On top of that, there is much debate nowadays as to how much of the bad (and good) we link to his name was his doing. France really was a mess back then so it would have been easy to those with the will and influence to just do terrible shit, and pin it on him after his death
People and big events in History are so much more complex than what we're told, it's crazy. I feel like I'm learning about History layer after layer. You learn barely anything, or insulting simplicities in school, and work your way from here
Love the videos as always !
“And I’ll tell you how,” I love how he tells and edits this more than most things on UA-cam
"You claim to save of your people, yet here you stand, a butcher!"
Timur the Lame called himself the "Sword of Islam" yet most of his victims were Muslim giving him the title "Prince of Destruction".
Even as someone who really likes Robespierre, I love your video and hilarious story telling style. 10/10
Edit: I find it so funny how there’s no mention of Robespierre’s “emo fanboy” Louis Antoine de Saint-Just. RIP Antoine.
No one likes bootlicker
Actually Robespierre was a Rousseau fanboy
“Le Bas kills himself with a pistol and hands it to Robespierre.” That’s quite a trick.
"We can make a religion out of thi-"
No, don't
Robespierre: “To the guillotine!”
Everybody else: uno reverse card
“TO THE GUILLOTINE!”
*CHOP* *CHOP* *CHOP* *CHOP*
@@willywonka8004 it was insane
**CHOP - CHOP - CHOP**
The Revolutions starvin'
I literally did a Ctrl+F search for "To the guillotine!". Glad to see my search did not go fruitless.
14: 55 Hang on he killed himself then HANDED his gun to Robespierre?
That dude’s gotta be legend
No, Lebas didn’t have a zombie arc. This video is just full of bullshit
This was probably your best video yet. Very well written and supprisingly well acted
This new art style came out of nowhere but I'm totally attached to it now.
Isn't this an old art syle
@@lukeh2556 it's a history channel everything is old
So next will be about everyone’s favorite dictator who was totally average height for the time
Well it will be about the directory that overtook the convention after Robespierre’s death, then it will be about chad Napoleon.
I mean he was just another king. To be fair he did a lot of good stuff for the French. He is a dictator by our point of view but for his times it was not that strange that a strong, intelligent, charismatics and competent general took control of a country. The strange thing is that he was great at it. With less wars he could have probably created his own dinasty and rule until his death, leaving the throne to a member of his family.
@@dariobarboni9276 Napoleon's one true weakness was his pride. Ironically tho he may have never reached the throne had he not been so prideful.
@@kinggundragon3728 yeah. His pride was his best ally but also his worst enemy. I agree with you.
The hellarious thing is we get the little man syndrome from a piece of British propaganda used to shame a man of average height.
The revolutionaries had a lot of ideas, good, bad, and indifferent. But the worst idea they had was that running a government was easy. Then they became a good topic for the late Laurance J. Peter..
I am amazed in this respect by the wisdom of Eamon de Valera. When his party was talking about taking power in Ireland he said that taking power was his project, he wanted them to study how a government works, so when the time came they would be prepared. Thus he was spared the Peter Principle and his party, the Fianna Fail still rules in Ireland (with some interludes for the opposition)
14:53
I'm sorry that's a bit of comedy that went over my head
"He KILLS himself with a pitol, then hands it to Robespierre"
Proceeds to keel over and die
😂😂😂
2:30 he also once passed out when he was forced to give someone the death sentence, how people change.
the committee of public safety didn't sentence people to death!
I hope that you do an episode about the draft of the French people during all of this. It's fascinating.
What really boggles my mind is that after Robespierre was arrested thousands in Paris marched in protest in support of him. Even after EVERYTHING that had happened he still commanded widespread public support. That’s just crazy to me.
Not really I mean people cried when they heard Stalin died not that much different
Because.... he didn't actually DO this stuff, it was literally retconned in later by some guys called the Thermidorians. Believe me, I can't make this stuff up.
because he was never actually a dictator and not in charge of the government. he advocated for things like abolishing slavery and universal male suffrage. this entire comment section is the victim of propaganda.
Your videos keep getting better. You're really mastering the art of storytelling. Thanks for doing what you do.
You know, I've been watching your stuff for a while now, and honestly I don't think anything you've done tops how you told the story of the chaos unfolding right before and during Robespierre's execution, that was amazingly horrific narration.
Phenomenally done. You can really feel the insanity of the radicals.
Robespierre is France Kira/Light Yagami, with all his claims of being *JUSTICE*
That's nonsense
Robespierre had very little control over the Terror. Outside Paris he had no direct control. Members of the Convention operated on their own authority and without reference to any central body. It was an anarchic process. Once it had begun it became very difficult to halt. To suggest that the Terror should end was to risk becoming its victim. Ironically it was as Robespierre attempted to curtail the Terror outside Paris that he fell from power. The reason Robespierre’s opponents gave for executing him in July 1794 was not his extremism but his moderation. Those who led the Thermidor plot against him were members of the Convention recalled from the areas in revolt who knew that they would have to account for their actions. Among them was Joseph Fouché who had been prominent in the de-christianization campaign and had carried out Massacres in Lyon. He would go on to become chief of police under Napoleon and the restored Bourbons.
@@user-yn7ux4fz6u finally someone here has read a book
As noted by Podcaster Mike Duncan, Robespierre seemed to suffer a nervous breakdown and when he came out he went batshit crazy.
Or he was replaced by the Lizard-people. Whichever
I'm glad at least one video on this topic gave a shout-out to the ludicrous amount of committee's and government adjustments and general name changes in the span of like 4 years, it's insane by the time you have stuff like the National Convention collaspse into the Committee of Public Safety; now we just need to get to the Directory and the Consulships!
*Consulates, I believe
Jack seems to enjoy making videos about these "idealists". Wang Mang was similar in a number of ways. Even down to the creation of a bunch of offices, renaming everything and having his high morals broken time and time... well basically it kind of feels like Robespierre was the reincarnated Wang Mang
Been following you since you had a few thousand subs, amazing to see how the quality of editing and writing has improved so much. Please keep up the great work!
"WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT BEING WORRIED?!"
always gets me
One thing that’s wild is Thomas Paine was almost killed in the French Revolution. Paine had been granted honorary French citizenship for his writings in defense of the French Revolution and he had gone to France and gotten elected a member of the legislature (despite not speaking French, which demonstrates how respected he was lol). He was fervently opposed to the death penalty (and Louis had also helped the American Republic out) and argued against it when they were trying to figure out what to do with the king (he was also straight up interrupted by Marat who tried to make him ineligible to vote because of his religion), and because of that he was imprisoned as a monarchist (despite, y’know, writing stuff like Common Sense) and was slated to be executed but they marked his cell wrong. And them forgetting to mark his cell for execution allowed him to survive long enough for Robespierre to be overthrown. After that, Paine straight up went back to the legislature and lived in France until 1802, when he returned to the US.
I think this was the most interesting perspective of the French Revolution I've ever watched
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
And the road to heaven is paved with bad ones. (Read: the Thermidorians who took power after Robespierre's faction was executed, the ones that used Robespierre as a scapegoat for their own crimes and made life worse for so many people, yet still somehow remain supported by the larger lens of history.)
got to be your best video, i don’t agree with Max but I appreciate his passion! side note your voice for him is just perfect.
"... kills himself with a pistol and hands it to Robespierre."
Wait, hold on...
actually probably the least inaccurate thing in the entire video
Loved this. I highly recommend Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast. He covered the entire french revolution in great detail if you are interested in who everybody is and what they did.
Thanks dude!
I'm making a d&d character and using the French revolution as inspiration for their backstory, (the character's father being one of the people executed in the fantasy equivalent to the reign of terror), so any more sources of info I can find helps a bunch.
@@charlieterry8506 On a personal note I took a genealogy test that said I was a descendent of King Louis XVI. My grandma said that she traced that lineage to Texas before the United states was founded. The most likely explanation is that Louis had an extramarital affaire and the woman and or offspring went to French Louisiana.
@@12vscience wow that's fascinating!
thank you for sharing.
@@charlieterry8506 That's not the half of it. I have a mixed family background that survived three different socialist revolutions. One is the French royal line that survived the Jacobins. Another is the German line that was invited by Catherine the Great to set up a colony in Russia to farm along the Volga. The Bolsheviks forced most to relocate to Siberia with little to no property. The Holodomor starvation period ensued. My ancestor escaped to eastern Europe close to the Baltic. Then fled to America. And another were Jews in Austria that survived the National Socialist Workers Party. After being in a concentration camp they moved to Soviet Ukraine. Then fled to America.
Robespierre was kind of the scapegoat for the terror
This would make a great film, his slow descent into madness. Especially everything on from 14:50. Pretty grim
Loving the animation on this one! I added so much to the emotions of the story!
Another great video Jack. I have learned so much about history from this guy:)
I'm French and the picture was clearer in 15 min and in english than after hours with my professors. Nice job 🐸👌
You know what they say, negative Nancys become headless Henrys