Dumb Trio History: Robespierre

The podcast episode is about the French Revolution, specifically focusing on Robespierre. The hosts introduce themselves and discuss their knowledge of the French Revolution. They provide background information on the poor living conditions and bad decision-making by King Louis XVI. They also mention Robespierre's early life and education, including his interest in Roman philosophers and his views on politics. They discuss his resignation from a job due to his opposition to the death penalty, and his involvement in the Literary Academy of Arras. He wrote essays on various topics, including the treatment of condemned criminals' families and the sidelining of women in academia. He later becomes a representative of the Third Estate. Overall, the hosts find Robespierre's views and actions to be progressive and liberal for his time. in for a treat today. We have EJ and we also have... My name's Bethany. Bethany, my girl. EJ, my girl. I have no one. Alright guys, welcome. Today, as you may know from the title of this podcast, we are going to be talking about Rogues Pierre of the French Revolution. Yeah. Like I just introduced, we have my friends, uh, Bethany is the fake name we're going with? Yeah. Anyway. Fake? She's not fake. She's a true friend. I am true. I am not a fake friend. Of course, of course, of course. My bad. I'm sorry. We have Bethany and EJ here today. So, before we get started, I kind of want to get a feel for what do you guys know about the French Revolution? I know plenty. Okay, so everybody was pissed off that they weren't getting food and they thought the people in power were getting food and they were like, why are we starving to death? Let's revolt. And then next thing you know, chop, chop, chop off of your head and, you know, just taking them down. You know, how it is. All right. EJ, do you have anything to kind of add to that? No. Fair. I thought it'd be fair. All right. Oh shoot, I forgot to introduce myself. Yeah, who are you? I don't even know you. Are you the fake friend? No, my bad. My bad. My name is Dub, not really. But that's what we're going with today. Sorry for the late introduction. Nice to meet you, Dub, not really. Dub, the fake friend. And then Bethany, the real friend. The true friend. Bethany. Dub, not really. And Bethany, the true friend. That bit's going to get old quick. And then we have our lovely Ife. And beautiful. Beautiful, lovely, vivacious, lights of the room. Of course, all of those things. So I'll give us some background info on, you know, the French Revolution and we can start getting into our true topic about Robespierre. Are you guys ready? Yes. Sure. Why not? Perfect. All right. It's time to go to the background corner. We don't got to do that. I'm not paying for sound effects. So you don't need sound effects. You just say background info and move on. We're going to the background corner. All right. Even worse than the first one. All right. So the year is 1789. Your dirt poor. Your crops destroyed by weather. Your uncle who owns a vineyard, his vines, his grapes for making all that wonderful champagne that keeps you going destroyed in a hailstorm. You got no food. You're starving to death. Your kids are just lying there in the house just being like, because they have no food. And you're getting text out your ass. Wait, wait, wait. Go back. Go back. They can't breathe because they have no food. It's more of like a groan of pain, but you know, sure. No breathing because no food. Disclaimer. That's not how starvation works. You're the one with the awful sound effects. Not the children. Not the children. Anyways, everyone is starving. Everyone has no money. And to make it all worse, King Louis the 16th is God awful at his job. He throws parties all the time and he just does not listen to his advisors at all. And he makes the worst financial decisions you will see in your lives. For instance, he fought a major war with the British, which considering that they were the strongest, you know, military force at the time, that was a bad move. And then right after they finished their war with the British, they funded another war against the British with a small, you know, never heard of before country, America. They funded the revolution against the British because they were like, hey, go Brits. Screw you. What they didn't realize, however, or at least what King Louis didn't realize, was that America had no way of paying them back. Since, you know, new country and all. So when King Louis came knocking around being like, hey, I see you guys won the war, you know, America's like, yeah, we won. It's pretty cool. We love our freedoms. Like, yeah. So remember that money I went you like, so when are you guys going to get around to paying that back? And America's like, never. And they leave. But, you know, so no money, no food, no, you know, nothing. And even in the King still keeps going and spending lavish amounts of money on just random junk. I know there's one point in time where his wife. Oh, shoot, what was her name? I have it in my notes here. Hold on. Let me find it. Marie Antoinette. You guys know there's a time where she made her hair. Hey. You forgot Marie Antoinette's name. I looked through my notes and I found her. That's all that matters. Anyways. You guys know there's a time where she had like a literal boat on her head made out of her hair. Yeah. Everyone remembers that it was crazy in the 80s. It was. It was. I'm upset because you're technically right. Because it was the 1780s, but told you crazy in the 80s. Oh, God. But, you know, bad spending. And France was in a rough spot. You guys could probably agree with that. The between a rock and a money pit. They spend too much like me. I buy food and comfort stuff, animals and waste my money. I mean, I'm right there with you. Not going to lie. Why can't everything just be cheap? He spends his money on politics. I spend my money on comfort. I mean, he spent his money on comfort to her side. Was a lavish, ridiculously ornate party part in parties. They really did enjoy their parties. I say party disco. But yeah, King Lewis, he was struggling with the pressure and, you know, ignoring the advice of his financial advisor. He decided to do what all great kings have done in the past. Make it someone else's problem. I'm talking about you, Britain. Britain. But before we get into that, we need to actually start at the beginning of Robespierre. So we're going to start in this wonderful place called Eres, France. And on May 6, 1753, Maximilien Robespierre was born and baptized. He was born to Jacqueline Marguerite Perrault, who was the daughter of a brewer. And he was born to her and the lawyer Francis Maximilien Bartholomew Robespierre. Sounds legit. I trust him with my finances. Of course, of course, you'd need to. He was the eldest of like four children. He had a younger brother and two younger sisters. So like, life is going good for Robespierre, you know. He's four years old. He's having a good life. You know, his family, they're close. But then this is when tragedy strikes. In July of 1764, his mother gave birth to a stillborn child, which, you know, that's already a terrible, terrible thing. But due to complications from the birth, she died about 12 days later. Very, very sad, very serious. You know, I'm not going to make jokes about this because, you know, this is a very sad thing that happened to him. And this affected his family very greatly. Of course, only a monster would make fun of that. Of course. And I'm not going to be a monster, Bethany. I was just making sure. Um, their father especially was devastated by this loss. And he decided to yield up parental control, otherwise known as the good old, I'm going to go get cigarettes, kids. And he never came back. But, you know, the good old, I'm gonna put you at the doorstep of the church. Close. In like 1767, he abandoned his kids to his relatives to just go away. I assume he continued to practice law and whatnot. However, we're not focusing on him. Um, the two daughters ended up living in the care of their paternal aunts, while Rose Pierre and his brother were actually put in the care of their maternal grandparents, you know. Because reasons. Probably due to the fact that, you know, Rose Pierre's grandfather was also a lawyer and whatnot. So, you know. Got to keep those lawyer genes intact. Of course. It's the only way to do it. By all accounts, Rose Pierre was like a wicked smart kid. And like he had learned how to read by age eight, which doesn't sound impressive now. But this is the 1760s. Being able to read was an accomplishment. So, like, the fact that this kid was reading by eight years old really was like, wow, this guy right here, he's going places. Which, you know, he was. Not good places. But he went places. Oh, fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're gonna, I assume you don't know a lot about Rose Pierre, Bethany. I do not. Oh, that's good. You're in for a really treat. Just to give you a hint of, like, what's gonna happen. Remember in the Batman movie? I think it was like Dark Knight Rises or something? Mm-hmm. Where it was like you either see yourself, you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain? Yeah, that's a very accurate quote. Fine. We're getting ahead of ourselves. Just a little spoiler alert for everyone else. Spoilers, love it. Listening to this podcast episode. Nobody likes spoilers. You ruin the whole broadcast. Anyways, by October of 1769, he was actually offered a scholarship to the college of Louis Le Grand, which sounds really impressive because he'd be like nine. But this was basically a middle school, which this was still impressive because it was a really good middle school, but it wasn't an actual college. It was a preppy, rich kid middle school. It's fine. I have it in my heart. Period. Yeah, basically. That is basically like the modern equivalent, I guess you could say. But he was offered this scholarship to attend based on a recommendation from the Bishop Louis-Hilier de... How do I pronounce that last name? Dang the French. You should have learned French in high school. That's what I hope. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I am holding on. All right. How do we pronounce it? I don't want the Wikipedia page. I just want to know how to pronounce his name. Did you say pronounce it when you searched it? Yes. How to pronounce at the end. Don't tell me how to pronounce his first name. It doesn't have it. I wrote it all down. These are personal notes. Oh, thank you, website, for telling me he's deceased. I never would have gathered since, you know, he lived in the 1700s. You never know what people know. Do they ask you with the lines? You never know. You never know. You never know. It's the end of Christ. Thank you, bishops.com. What the heck? It truly doesn't matter that much if we say his name wrong. So it would be Louis Hilier de... What's it look like? Hold on, hold on. Google text... Just say it with your heart. Just say it with your heart. You just have to pretend you do. Just pretend you do. Be confident about it. And then they'll genuinely think you think that's how you pronounce it. Oh, yeah. You know what? Louis Hilier de Conzay. Yep. There we go. That's what we're going with. Conzay. Conzay. Thank you. Thank you, Bethany. But he was offered a scholarship of the bishop Louis Hilier de Conzay. Here at, you know, Louis Le Grand, he would begin to read about and eventually admire the Roman Empire and a lot of its philosophers, especially like Cicero, Cato, and Lucius Junius Brutus. You know, we all know Brutus. Brutus. Et tu, Brute? Which he was so like invested in like his like love for like the Roman Empire. He was actually awarded a prize for rhetoric, which is, you know, the art of persuasion. While he was here, he also studied the works of Rousseau and grew very interested in his work, Contract Social, which was which in English, I assume you could probably gather that it's, you know, social contract, which kind of went over ideas of how like the government gets its power from the people and without the people's consent, the government has no power. It's very revolutionary for its time and it ended up influencing a lot of people like Thomas Jefferson, many people here in the French Revolution as well. Wasn't John Locke a big contributor to the revolutions with his ideas? He was. His ideas were also a big like, like contributing factor to like both to a couple of revolutions, if I remember correctly. I think it was one to like America and France and the French Revolution. Yes. And then the French Revolution was also like the basis itself for many other revolutions. Same thing with the American Revolution. So you can you can honestly say that Rousseau and Locke really influenced like multiple like cultures and countries into like accepting this kind of idea that the people are governed, that governments are like made by the people. And that's to all the teachers that said I never pay attention in school. Freaking John Locke right out my butt crack. I got it. I remembered some stuff. Thank you very much. Congrats. The rest is gone. But like I remember John Locke. It's only because I thought his name was stupid. Anyways, taking these ideas from Rousseau and like other similar ideas from other philosophers, it kind of informed his view about politics. And it kind of led him to thinking that the general will of the people was the basis of political legitimacy, which was what we were discussing earlier. So like skipping ahead to like way off, like a couple like like a decade or two into the future. Oh, it's just a decade. Yeah, it's just a decade. He began like his study, like his actual university studies at Sorbonne, which to give you an idea of how prestigious this like university was. It was like the leading university of Paris for like literal centuries from like I think it was 1160 to 1970. It was like the leading university of Paris. It's like an exception between like the years that the actual French Revolution was happening. Wow. Yeah, I really didn't have winded up in there. I mean, you know, you know, Not at that time period. No, probably not. But like, you know, we can get in. That's another like conversation for another day, which we could we could possibly go into. That's fine. Move on. That's what most men do with women history anyway. We're just focusing on Robespierre. But there's a lot of like going on a small tangent. There's like a lot of really like interesting like women during the French Revolution that lived and like Robespierre was like friends with a lot of these women, too. Not to mention that, like, he was really vocal about women's rights as we'll get into later. Oh, no, my dog's at my door. Oh, no. Oh, God. Kebby. All right. Hold on. Excuse me for one moment, everyone. Why I go get my dog situated. So it does not ruin my recording. You called her an it. You can come into my room. Thank you for not being rude. Why are you sneezing to my cup? Oh, right in my cup. That was gross. I can't take the water anymore. Oh, there's the other one. There you go. Hold on. I'll be back again. Yes, you can come in and be a part of the podcast as well. Don't sneeze. Why did you sneeze in my cup as well? It's the initiation to the room. What? It's extra flavor. That is gross. Come on, you can come up on the bed. Come on. Delicious. Thank you. Say hello, my dog. Oh, you need to get out of your comfort zone. So where were we? You need to grow your immune system and drink your water. God, no. Extra flavor. Go out and try new things. He went to this university, crazy university, and he ended up graduating from there on July 31st, 1780, after studying law. He eventually went to go to the bar and whatnot and passed that as well. But upon graduation, due to his success academically and his good behavior, he was actually awarded 600, I believe it's pronounced livers, moving into after he graduated territory. He passed the bar. Woo! That's a good achievement. Get it. But yeah, he passed the bar. And he actually ended up being appointed as one of the five criminal judges in the criminal court in March of 1782, literally three years after he graduated. A mad lad, as they say. As cool young hip children would say. What a mad lad. Ha ha ha. Ha ha. I am of young descent. Hello, fellow kids. Hello, fellow children. Funny enough, though, he resigned from the job due to his discomfort regarding the death penalty. He thought it was a violation of rights, and that's what he did. He thought it was a violation of rights and that it was like a terrible, awful thing. Bro, I gotta hate to inform you what's just gonna happen in this revolution. Oh, no. Trust me. It's gonna be very interesting to look back at this. So just keep that in your mind. Keep this in our mind. This guy resigned because he didn't like the death penalty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll remember. Keep that in your mind. All right. It's very important. Very important. This is what we like to call foreshadowing. This is what we like to call a circle back point. We circle back and point at it and laugh about how stupid he was. Yeah. So after this and spending a couple years, actually, you know, spending some time, well, I don't want to say a couple years, but spending time as a lawyer after this, he ended up being elected into a member of the Literary Academy of Auras, which was basically like, you know, a place where all those really smart people got together to write about politics and science and junk. So, like, in like 1784, he was awarded a medal and became a man of letters, quote, quotation marks, which was basically just an intellectual. He was just a smart guy who liked to write papers. Me, an intellectual. Me, an intellectual. He was a really smart person who wrote really good papers. And he ended up getting this medal for his essay on the question of whether I believe it was whether the relatives of condemned criminals should share his disgrace. What did he say? He was actually, you know, saying that it wasn't it shouldn't be on the families, you know. At least he was right in that. Oh, no, there's a lot of stuff, as we'll get to see later on, that honestly, if what happened later on didn't happen. No spoilers. He will be regarded as a champion for like so many things. But, you know, like the Batman quote. I know it's not for Batman. I know it is. It is from Batman. No, no, no. I know there's going to be like, you know, listeners who are going to be like, that quote isn't actually originally from Batman. I know it's not. It is from Batman. You can add me in the comments. It's in Batman, but it wasn't made by the writers of Batman. You can't convince me otherwise. Batman told me that in his when we were talking on the phone. Yeah. You know, I'm close to Batman. Batman told you this directly. Yeah. I got to get my connection. Where is Gotham at? That's none of your business and none of your concern. That is top secret information. And honestly, I feel violated at having you asked me that. Oh, my gosh. I thought our friendship was stronger than this hurdle, but I guess not. I guess it wasn't. Bethany, you make me want to punch a tree. Um, anyways. So he wrote about multiple controversial topics. Which this included, like, you know, the legitimacy of children who weren't born in wedlock and whatnot. And, you know, imprisonment without a trial, which was a huge problem back in this time. And he also wrote about sidelining women in academic circles. Obviously against, you know, the sidelining women, the imprisonment without a trial and whatnot, you know. Honestly, sounds pretty cool. Honestly, this guy is kind of a feminist king. Not gonna lie. Like, what does he do to be horrible? I need to know. We'll figure you will get into that later. But right now he's in his hero arc, right? He is like he's hard. Right now he's Harvey Dent. Lawyer Harvey Dent. Yeah, he is like Harvey Dent. He is calling out the corruption around him and how we as good people should not just let this slide. While in this, you know, academy, he actually met a lot of his fellow future revolutionaries here as well. Which is kind of interesting, you know, whenever you think about it. But later on he would end up being elected to be one of the representatives of the third estate, which we'll get into more info about very quickly. But a fun little story that kind of goes into this, which again leads into like how progressive and liberal his thinking was for the time was. He actually secured, like, his elected position to be a representative by verbally like attacking and writing about the authorities in the countryside. He's like he was calling them out basically, you know, being like, hey, this is a call out post to all y'all authorities. Y'all suck. You being sexist, you being sexist, false imprisonment without a trial, that might I add. And also y'all stank. But no, he really was like the original fuck the police. Can you say that to your teachers? On this podcast? Yeah, their phones are a little strong. I don't know if we can have that in a podcast. You know what? Screw it. We're keeping it in. We're keeping all of this in right here. But anyways. Not all of it. We're keeping some of it. Okay. I'm just making sure. Like this specific section right here is going to stay. But anyways. I'm going to need my name blurred, my identity secured, as you know, with all my warrants out. I don't need my name circling the internet. Don't worry, Bethany. We're going to make sure that your real name isn't released. Thank you. I would hate for to be released. This is a really stupid bit. It sounds worse. What? I'm so sorry that I don't want all over. Hold on, we need to stop. This may actually get the podcast taken down because this is going to be posted to the public. Okay, all of this needs to be cut. We need to cut a lot. Wait, is this a private YouTube video? Can you cut in this or do we need to start over? No, no, no, no. We can cut in this. Don't worry. I have like an audio software. This is video. Good, good, good. What was that, Edrian? This is video, not private. No, it has to be public. It has to be a public podcast. What? I was not told this. I was not informed either. I was not informed of this information. Therefore, I do not consent to have my voice on the internet. If you guys would rather not, we can end the recording here. No, it's okay. I'm good. I'm fine. I don't care that much. All right, then. So, uh... I just wanted the public to know I do not consent to this. That's getting cut. Stephanie's like, no. My voice being silent again. Genuinely? Me as a woman. Stop. That was going to be left to the public. That was going to be left in. But anyways, it's not going to make much sense with the previous cut that we had to do, because I accidentally name dropped you. But, you know, it's fine. Yeah. I can't have my name out on the internet with all my warrants. Anyways, so this kind of leads into what we were talking about before. As I mentioned before, France, no money, no food. No bitches. No maidens. But yeah, so they're in a really bad position. So the king calls forth this thing called the Estates General, which basically it's a collection of elected people to represent the three specific estates. Now, this is a big deal because before this, it hadn't been called forth by a king in like 150 years. So this is a big deal, right? Yeah. So like, you would call up a certain amount of people from each estate. The first estate was made up of like clergy members and, you know, bishops and whatnot of the Catholic religion, which was very prevalent in the area, right? So. It's like a dollar general, but. They were quite prevalent. Yes, they were about everywhere. Now, the second estate was the nobility, you know, the upper ruling classes, like the aristocrats, you know, your dukes, your barons, so on and so forth, with the exception of the king, because, you know, obviously he's not a part of any of the estates, right? And the third estate, the last estate was now keep in mind, this is a very specific niche. So please, you know, listeners and Bethany and EJ, pay attention to this because it is very specific, but it was literally everyone else. So, you know, anyone that wasn't a clergy member or nobility, yeah, that was the third estate. Wow. Really? Yeah. It was just the lump of everybody else? The third estate made up like 98%, 97 or 98% of the population. Oh, wait, I remember this. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was so, it was messed up. And then like the priests were on the higher end of it too. Like it also didn't make sense that the priests were also super high, but they also were like, it was in that time period where they were like, it's appointed by God. God is everything. God is also running our government and the priests are totally not swindling money underneath the table right now. Of course, never. They would never do anything. It's a lot less specific, I know. The third estate, huge. This has everybody from the poorest of the poor to like some really rich merchants. Well, what do keep in mind in the first estate, there was like, you know, some division of the clergy members, because there was the really rich clergy members who, you know, scam people out of their money. And then there was the not so rich ones who were actually in it for, you know, the God part of being a clergy member, shockingly enough. However, they are still considered the first estate for, but yeah, as you could probably guess, the third estate was huge and had amounts of people from everywhere. But it was also the poorest estate, right? Clearly. So you think it would make sense for them to have like the least amount of like, you know, financial burden placed upon them like taxes wise? No. That's not how the fridge works. That's not how anyone works. No, they were taken advantage of and- Really? Shocker. Yeah, I know. Who would have guessed? The poor being taken advantage of? Never in my life. Yeah, for real. But yeah, they made up most, if not all of the taxes, I believe, if my research was correct. Yeah, the first estate and the second estate did not have to pay taxes. And priests did not have to pay taxes too because, you know, picked by God and all. Why would they pay the money that they're getting paid for? The entirety of the first estate didn't have to pay taxes. Yeah. Which was a bit concerning, especially with the fact that, you know, that they were constantly getting tithes and they own large spots of land and they were very rich. Same thing with the nobility. They were very rich, but they didn't have to pay taxes because, you know, they're the upper class. Taxes are for poor people. Am I right? Taxes are for people that don't have money. We have money, therefore we don't need to pay taxes. Of course. Good thing that this never has happened ever again and that we fix this mistake before it could happen to us. Isn't that right, Bethany? Yeah. Gas is so high. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos chilling on his, you know, his yacht. He must be like, hmm, I think I'll ruin the lives of 20% of my workforce. I'm feeling bold today. Let's make it 50. But yeah, they called in the estates to basically come up with ideas to fix this problem that's going on. And a fun note was the fact that the third estate, since they had so many people, they petitioned the king and his advisors to give them, you know, at least twice as many representatives than the other estates. So this way their voice could be more properly heard. And the king granted their request, which was very surprising for the time. And it really had like the people of the third estate being like, wow, we're going to actually be able to make a difference. They just didn't listen to him even more. No, no, no. No, no, instead of it being like a vote by head, it became a vote by estate, meaning each estate only had one vote. So even though the third estate had literally twice the amount of people in it, they only counted for one vote. Truly, truly the worst. Yeah, it was, it was not good. So like what would normally happen is that the first two, there would be something put to like, you know, a vote, whether, you know, hey, should we lower the taxes for the third estate? And the third estate would be like, yeah, obviously. And they put their vote to that, right? And the other two would be like, no, I don't want to keep. I don't want to keep. Yeah, they would basically work together to, you know, outvote the third estate, which kind of led to like nothing really being done. And it was really frustrating. I can imagine. But during this, on like the 6th of June in 1789, Rose Pierre actually gave his first major speech attacking like the church's hierarchy. Right? Get him. He was basically just coming after. Get him. He was just attacking like how like the bishops and whatnot were just, would ignore like the lower levels of the clergy who were, you know, much, had much more in common with the third estate. And he was really just going after them and how they abused their power. In about a week after this, he actually would end up joining the newly created National Assembly, which was created by the members of like the third estate to, you know, they basically renamed and rebranded themselves to basically be like, hey, we're going to come up with a way to make the country better. Yeah. And he was also present at the tennis court oath in, you know, a couple days after the fact, which was when they were going to go, the people of the third estate were going to meet in an area to like discuss things, but the doors were locked. So they met in a local tennis court and made an oath saying that they're not going to separate and like, and they're going to try and create a constitution for the kingdom, which was a really impactful and powerful thing. Yeah. Which the way it's told is it's normally told that King Louis, the king of England, King Louis had the meeting, the original meeting place locked up so they couldn't get into it. But, you know, that doesn't quite make like a lot of sense because he wasn't exactly against the constitution at this point in time. So a lot of historians actually believe that the cleaning crew, the cleaning crew. Be careful. He either didn't want to clean up after them again, or it accidentally left or just had the doors locked before they got there and forgot to unlock it, forcing them to go over to the tennis court. Oh, I can't speak. Oh, Lord, help me. But yeah, that's a funny story. It doesn't really, it's not the most important thing. It's like a very important moment in history. But like, you know, I think that's a fun little story to basically be like, hey, um. Maybe this wasn't completely Louis's fault. Maybe this was just an unfortunate change of events. At least that led to the tennis court. But yeah, probably was Louis's fault. I mean, I'm perfectly fine with blaming Louis. But anyways, so the assembly ended up moving their base of operations to Paris on July 9th. And they renamed themselves the National Constituent Assembly, which basically their whole deal was trying to figure out and create a constitution for the country and kind of fix the taxation system. You feel? Yeah. Novel goals, you know. Novel goals. And then on like the 13th of July, they actually proposed to reestablish the Burgoyne's militia in Paris to control like a bunch of the riots that were happening at the time due to, you know, the lack of food and the taxation out the ass. Um, the very next day, they proposed to establish this militia. The people kind of like got arms, like they armed themselves. And they stormed the Bastille, which this was this like prison building that held like a bunch of like prisoners and whatnot. That was being run by like soldiers and whatnot. He's being run by him. And basically, a lot of the people in the Bastille were falsely imprisoned or or were imprisoned without a trial. You see where I'm getting at here? False imprisonment. It's crazy. So they stormed the Bastille. And, you know, you can imagine, but just give me an idea of what you guys think happened after they stormed the Bastille. Do you guys think like they were able to talk it out, able to release a couple of important prisoners or something? Or maybe they like stole the weapons inside? Like what do you guys think happened here? I want to get both of y'all's opinion on this. I don't think they won. I don't think anything good came from this. I mean, that's an opinion. I don't think anything good came from this. And they were actually taxed harder. We'll get into this. Well, we'll talk about that. E.J., what do you think was going on? What do you think happened after they stormed the Bastille? Eat a sandwich. The pauses kill me every single time. They ate a sandwich. She gave you an answer. Respect that answer. That's a good answer. They were hungry. They were starving, you know, being poor and all because of the taxes. It was a very good answer. Both of those are good answers. But what they actually did was they killed the prisoners. What they actually did was they killed all the guards and soldiers inside and put their head on spikes and carried them about town. I feel like E.J. was right. Still. They were hungry after carrying them around town. They had to eat. So they ate a sandwich. So therefore, I feel like E.J. was right. You know what? Who knows? Maybe a bunch of them did eat sandwiches afterwards. Clearly E.J. knows. Of course. E.J. was there. Who said she'd know? E.J. was there. Yeah. E.J. is a time traveler. What was that, E.J.? A chicken sandwich. Oh, it was the chicken sandwich. Chicken sandwich, even ahead of its time. E.J. brought it to them. Incredible. Chick-fil-A who? It was a fried chicken sandwich. It was a raw chicken sandwich. No! Pure chicken and bread. You know, you'd have the chicken, you know, on the stick and, you know, slowly rotating it around the fire. They got a rotisserie chicken going. It was on the same spike as, like, you know, the head. The other side is like the head of, like, a soldier. On the other side, it's just like a chicken. Just getting, like, nice and cooked. That's incredible. But yeah, so that happened. So the militia, like, changed into a National Guard. And it began keeping, like, the very poorest citizens at, like, arm's length, you know, keeping them very, keeping them separated and not really doing a good job of, you know, protecting them. And on the 20th of July, the National, the Assembly decided to establish, like, National Guards in every, like, commune of the country to kind of, like, stop the riots. So, like, you know, yeah. And whenever discussing the matter, whenever they were discussing the matter, Rose Pierre was, like, verbally attacking this person called Lally Tolendall, who they were calling for, like, law and order, you know, and to, like, hey, you need to, like, respect these National Guards, right? So Rose Pierre basically was, like, hey, remember who was, like, protecting your liberty, like, a few days before? Oh, yeah, not them. So, apparently, the people who defended their liberty, the citizens, aren't allowed to have it, was basically what he was saying to them. And about, in October, there's this thing called the Women's March on Versailles. And this was originally, like, a group of, like, all women protesters, which is very, like, you know, uncommon, because, you know, the 1700s. But, so, these women who were all, like, starving, decided to march towards Versailles and, like, protest. And as they went, they ended up getting more and more people, some people who weren't just females and whatnot, and, like, people who weren't just women. And they started, like, marching, and they started getting more militarized and getting a lot more male groups by the time they had reached Versailles. And during this whole thing, you know, there's, like, the, hold on, let me pull up Versailles. Don't worry, we're going to edit this. So, basically, this March on Versailles ended up turning into, like, a riot, where all these, like, revolutionaries, they ended up sacking the city, like, the city armory, right? They armed themselves, they marched to the Palace of Versailles, and they besieged the palace very violently and forced their demands upon King Louis XVI. And then, you know, the next day, they, the crowd forced the king and his family and most of the French assembly to return with them to, like, you know, Paris. And this is, like, the thing that ended, like, a lot of the king's freedom and whatnot. Like, he lost his independence here. But, you know, around this time, the constituent assembly was talking about male census suffrage, which was basically, like, talking about how they shouldn't have laws for people, like, men, they shouldn't have requirements, like, property requirements for voting and holding office, because that's not fair. It cuts out, like, some of the poorer people, you dig? Like, you get me? I get you. I can see. Yeah. So, like, in December and January, Rosepierre actually succeeded in, like, attracting the attention of most of the excluded classes. Like, this includes Jewish people, Black people, servants, actors, and whatnot. And he actually ended up getting a lot of their, like, approval for him. And he was also very vocal in his support for the then, like, constitution, or the then, like, basis for, like, the French Revolution, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, and the constitutional provisions for the constitution of 1791. But, you know, he rarely, at this point of his career, gained, like, the attention of, like, his other deputies. And he was a very, like, he was a very formal guy, you know? He always had his hair powdered. He was, he was always curled. He was always perfumed. And, yeah, of course, he was a gorgeous man. And he always seemed to be very nervous, timid, and suspicious. So, in 1789, he lived in a district with very few wealthy inhabitants. And he ended up becoming associated with the New Society of the Friends of the Constitution, commonly known as the Jacobin Club. And originally, this organization, which was called the Club Breton, was comprised only of deputies from Brittany, but after the National Assembly had kind of, like, moved to Paris. But after the National Assembly, they had moved to Paris in an empty monastery. And they also started to admit non-deputies. And they just began supporting, like, changes in France. They were a very liberal organization for the time. And among these 12, yeah, and among these 1,200 men, Rosier, like, really found, like, people who were genuinely interested in what he was saying and sympathetic to, like, what he had to say. And, like, a big thing for the Jacobin Club was, like, equality before the law. Like, that was the big, like, cornerstone of all their ideology. It's just that everybody was equal. Oh, nice. Yeah. Again, going back to what we've said before. Really? He really was not a bad guy. Would that make me equal to you? Yeah, in the French days? See, that was a – they were mainly focused on male suffrage. But Rosier himself actually was very, I guess you could say, like, supportive of female freedom during the time. Okay. I was about to say, I thought I was better than you. No. I thought I was equal to you. No. I'm just kidding. Dagnabbit. I just got annihilated. All right. So, you know, there's a lot of speeches that Rosier ended up giving. I believe it was by – I have it written in my notes here somewhere. Where did it go? By 17 – in 1791 alone, he had, like, 328 speeches. At least, you know, one – almost one a day, which is, you know, a lot. But in, like, the 19th of June in, like, 1790, he was elected as, like, the president of the Jacobin Club, right? Wait, was it the Jacobin Club? Yeah, it was the Jacobin Club. So he was really big about, like, the cooperation of the National Guards during this time. And he ended up even being elected as secretary of the National Assembly, which was a pretty big deal. And he was really big about everyone having equality in their salaries. And he came and talked about a lot of different reforms he wanted to make about – one was about the judicial system. Wow. Truly, this man was way ahead of his time, and we should have learned from him. And it seems like in America we haven't. Yeah, for real, though. I'm being, like, daggone – but, like, genuinely, like, this is why the French Revolution was considered, like, one of the most, like, truly free when it came to, like – or truly equal – at the time, it was, like, the most liberal slash equality-based revolution that's been seen in history. Like, it's genuinely so interesting to look back and see this and see that all of these people back then, they really were people who cared about everyone and really believed in equality. You know, we'll – you know, that – Bruce Beard kind of, like, shoots himself in the foot and makes him seem like not such a good guy later on, but, you know, we'll get to that later. We'll get to that later. I'll give you another spoiler for you. So – What? You keep spoiling! So, in, like, 1791, Rose Pierre, like I said, he had, like, 300 – he gave, like, nearly a speech every day. At least one speech every day. He had a lot of – he spoke about, like, defending the rights of man, equal citizenship for all men of – for all men of no matter their color and whatnot. So, he also was really big about abolishing the death penalty, and he even gave a speech about that on, like, the 30th of May. But, you know, that actually did not go over well, and he wasn't able to get it abolished. Even, like, other people were, like – yeah, his speech, it was incredible. Like, Hilary Mantel said that, it is perfectly constructed, a brilliant fusion of logic and emotion, as much a work of art as a building or a piece of music should be. It's beautiful. Yep. Genuinely. And it still didn't work, but, you know, whatever. Um. Oh, love it. Yeah. Love that. They were pretty liberal, but not everybody held the same views, of course. Bethany? Of course they didn't. Bethany. Yes? You're beautiful. You are a beautiful work of art. You are. You are too, EJ. You're pure poetry. That's so nice of you. You are pure, pure poetry. All right, well. You are clearly the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life. Anyways, we need to get back on topic. It's so sad we are apart. I must wait to see you. I am forced between these walls to not see your glorious face. You have five seconds before I mute you. And again. We need to get back on topic. We need to get this finished. You're right. Speak, man. Speak until you're spoken to, man. Oh. So, at the time of, like, the declaration of, like, Pilnitz, which was this very important thing that we really don't have much time to go into. And this declaration was from, the declaration of Pilnitz was from Austria and Prussia, warning the people of France not to harm Louis XVI, or the nations would basically invade France. So, threatened by this, Brissett rallied to support the legislative assembly and basically, like, declared war. Robespierre thought this was the dumbest idea possible. And honestly, when you kind of look at his logic, he's not exactly wrong. Because his logic was this, right? He, remember, he was a big fan of, like, the Roman Empire, right? Yes. So. He was Mr. Popular. I wouldn't say that. He didn't seem like the most popular of guys. But. He was Mr. Vahedos's diamond, he knew it. He was a black horse. Yeah, he was a black horse. Yeah, he really was. But he loved the Roman Empire. And one of the biggest things about the Roman Empire was, one of the things that led to the fall of their republic was, you know, Julius Caesar coming into power after a military venture. So, basically, he was like, if they ended up winning the war, it would be perfectly set up in place to create a dictatorship, right? Yes. Which, honestly, kind of was proven right whenever you look at the fact that Napoleon ended up. How did I know you were going to talk about Napoleon? Well, look at it this way. Napoleon, after, you know, after the original reign of terror, and during one of the other wars that happened after the reign of terror and whatnot, he was able to set himself up as a dictator after winning the war. So, you know, Rothier, not quite wrong there. But he also said that if they lost the war, the king would be reinstated. Because that's what, you know, the king of Austria said he was going to do. He's like, we're going to reinstate the king when we win this war. Yeah, not if he's dead. I mean. Reinstate what? His court? We'll get into that. Necromancy check. But yeah, so this was like a big, like, problem of contention among the grid irons or gridians, which were more conservative leaning, and the Jacobins, which was the party, which was the more liberal party that held on to, like, you know, they wanted a true, like, republic, while the grid irons or gridians, I can't remember how to pronounce them correctly, they really wanted more of a constitutional monarchy. Right? So this caused a big, this war itself caused a giant, like, division between these two parties. And on September of 1792, Rose Pierre was, like, elected a deputy of the National Assembly, right? But as we see over the course of the next nine months, he'll eventually eliminate and take control of the National Convention. So the convention's unanimous decision, or unanimous declaration of a French republic on, like, the 21st of September, really sealed the fate of the king, you know? It really, like, it set him up so that whatever the case, the king was going to go on trial. Like, that was, it really set the king up for failure here, because there was no way he was going to get out of this unscathed. If I remember correctly, did the king or did the king not have a trial? He had a what? Did he not have, didn't he not have a trial? He did have a trial. Oh, he did? Yeah, but Rose Pierre was kind of against this. And the reason he was against him having a trial was because he believed that arguing by giving the king a trial would basically be saying that, hey, there's a chance the king is innocent. But she believed that there wasn't a chance for the king to be innocent, because he was taking part of a monarchy that took advantage of the people. Eventually, he ended up deciding to come around. But the way he saw it was that they weren't putting King Louis on trial, but they were putting the entire concept of monarchy itself, like a monarchy that takes advantage of the people at trial. That was basically how he felt about it, whenever you look at different people's writings and his speeches during the time. So there's a lot of people who are really, really, really, really, really, really, really there's a lot of people who are really favoring the idea of a trial for Louis, right? And there are some who are like, yeah, let's go ahead and get this trial over with so we can execute him. And there's other people who are like, hey, let's do a lesser punishment, because, you know, the fact that killing the king is just going to cement us having to go to war, right? You know, tyranny and all. Yeah, but Robespierre was basically like, um, no. He was basically, like on the 3rd of December, kind of going back to what we were talking about before, he gives a speech that really would define, like, the course of Louis' trial. He argued that if the king was just dethroned and banished, it would only become, he would just become a bigger threat to the liberty and national peace to, like, the Republic of France. And in arguing for a judgment by the elected convention without a trial, he ended up, like, reporting, like, recommendations from Jean-Baptiste Mehif, who, you know, he kind of, like, headed, like, the reporting of, like, the legal aspects of Louis' trial and or judgment. And unlike, like I said before, he didn't want the king to be put on trial. He just wanted him to be, like, executed. For whatever reason, he did call for a trial for Marie Antoinette, which was interesting, to say the least. Hmm. Why would you say that? Probably because he didn't see her as much of a threat as Montague did. I mean, I don't think he saw her as much of a threat, but that's my personal opinion on the matter. Ooh, we're bringing opinions in. I mean, why would you think he would, like— I have a couple of those if you want to do that. Why else do you think that the queen would deserve a trial but not a king? Maybe it was, like, some level of sexism? I mean, I mean, honestly, the king really truly ruled. The queen didn't do much. She didn't, but it's like, the king was dead, which we didn't talk about this, but they didn't, like, execute his children. He just banished them, I believe. Okay. But, like, if the king had to die to save the peace without a trial, because, you know, he didn't deserve a trial, then I don't understand why Marie Antoinette, the queen, would not also get the same treatment. I mean, it doesn't change their fate in the end, you know. Oh, yeah, of course not. Now, spoiler alert, they both die. Ooh, what did I tell you about spoilers? Sorry, audience. Sorry, Bethany. But, yeah. Thank you for apologizing. It was, but, Rose Pierre was really vocal about, like, the fact that the king needs to be executed, even though he still at the time claimed that capital punishment was never the right decision. And I actually have an excerpt from his speech. I would do a French accent, but I don't want to, like, do it poorly. So I'm just going to kind of read it. Yeah. Are you ready for this? No. All right. Well, I'm going to read it anyways. So this is Rose Pierre talking. Yes, the death penalty is, in general, a crime, unjustifiable by the indestructible principles of nature, except in cases protecting the safety of individuals or the society altogether. Ordinary misdemeanors have never threatened public safety because society may always protect itself by other means, making those culpable powerless to harm it. But for a king dethroned in the bosom of a revolution, which is as yet cemented only by laws, a king whose name attracts the scourge of war upon a troubled nation, neither prison nor exile can render his existence inconsequential to public happiness. This cruel exception to the ordinary laws avowed by justice can be imputed only by the nature of his crimes. With regret, I pronounce this fatal truth. Louis must die so the nation may live. Powerful stuff, honestly. Truly. I understand what he's saying. But also, Louis must die sounds like, truly just sounds like one of those, it sounds like one of those, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the On the 20th of January, half of the deputies voted for King Louis' immediate death, which his name after this was changed to Louis Capet. And the very next day, he was guillotined. He was guillotined. And, you know, right before he was executed, you know, it was such a loud roar and uproar in like Paris that it could, it could be heard for miles. So basically, King Louis, as he was about to be executed, there was an uproar all throughout Paris, like just a loud noise that was happening. Throughout all of like France, all of Paris, I shouldn't say France, all of Paris. So King Louis, basically, at the time, right before his execution, all of Paris was like, you know, making noise. Because they were going to see the execution of a king. Like that's a crazy thing to think about. That this man who was in charge over everything had fallen so low that he was going to die. And there was nothing you could do to avoid that. It was really like crazy to them. And as right before, you know, the final call of the blade, I guess you could say, his exit stage left, Louis, you know, he gave his last words. And there was a loud uproar as like the blade descended. And after his head was cut off, there was silence throughout all of Paris. Like it was deadly quiet. Because like the people had realized that, oh shit, this is it. We killed the king. There is no going back. So, you know, crazy stuff. And by the 10th of March of 1793, the National Convention ended up setting up a revolutionary tribunal to basically like charge different people with crimes against the revolution. And about half of the people were like, you know, acquitted of like everything that happened. Which this number again dropped to about a quarter of them were acquitted after the enactment of like Law 22 on the 10th of June of 1794. But only half of the people who were like tried by the revolutionary tribunal ended up like, you know, being acquitted. So, you know, very bad. And in the same month, a rebellion ended up breaking out in Vendée in response to like this huge conscription that was going on for like the war that was happening. Because, you know, they killed the king. So, Austria and Prussia was like, I, we about to head in. And they started the war. Which because of this huge conscription, it actually ended up turning into like a civil war around the Vendée area. Yeah, it was like, it was very like crazy. And like this like discontent with like the rest of like the French government in Vendée, like this lasted until after the terror. Which was genuinely like a crazy thing, you know. They were able to get away with so much for so long. And then on the 6th of April in like 1793, the National Convention, they established the Committee of Public Safety. This ended up becoming like the government during wartime France here. And this committee was overseeing the reign of terror. And during the reign of terror, at least 300,000 suspects were arrested. 17,000 were officially executed. And then 10,000 died in prison without a trial. Like it's such a disheartening thing. It's such a disheartening thing. But, so, there was a bunch of political purges and whatnot. Asking for like a fixed price, a fixed low price for bread. Limited electoral franchise. You know, the whole nine yards. And the Garandist leaders, 29 of their leaders, were arrested by the National Guard. And like the Jacobins were going hard. So, in reaction to this, I think it was like 13 departments started like Federalist revolts against the National Convention in Paris. But they were ultimately crushed. So, yeah. So, this is like, you know, villain arc Rose Pierre right here. Because by, after the like assassination of Jean Paul Marat, who was another Jacobin leader, who didn't really get along well with Rose Pierre. After he died on like the 13th, like, I want to say like a week and a half, like the 27th. So, yeah, it was a week and a half of July. Rose Pierre ended up becoming a part of the Committee of Public Safety. Who were doing all these terrible things. Ah, yes. Me, after committing murder. I should work at a 911 operating system. Which the original leader, Georges Danton, who was like, he was the leader during like the original uprising of the king and during the time of the king's execution. He was kicked out in the 10th of July. He was removed from the committee. So, Rose Pierre, and he was a big like, you know, he was really up against Rose Pierre a lot. So, it kind of, that was like a major like person standing in Rose Pierre's way. And he was no longer in his way. And neither was Marat. By the 9th of September, the convention is basically like, hey, farmers, give us your grain. Right? And they were forced to give it up to the revolutionary armies. Another, you know, thing that was supported by Rose Pierre. So, by like, on the 17th of September, a law called the Law of Suspects was passed. Which basically meant like, let's say I was your neighbor. And I was irritated at you. I could basically say that you were an anti-revolutionary and you would be in prison and possibly executed for having. Wow, what is this, the Soviet Union? I mean, it was bad. It was really bad. And this like created a mass overflow in the prison systems. So, like, and, you know, the government basically decreed that they're going to stay in power until, you know, they were at peace. And by this time, like, Rose Pierre, he was in charge over the convention. He was in charge over everything. He was controlling everything by this point. Genuinely, like, he was controlling just about everything that was going on. And he, honestly, by the time that the terror really started, he was already, like, you know, by the time Danton was like removed, once Rose Pierre became a part of the Committee of Public Safety, he really had like a, so Rose Pierre, he was really in power by this point. And, you know, by the 5th of September, they had declared that terror is the order of the day. And this, this is when Rose Pierre really was in control over everything. They used this to control the price of food. They used this to, he used basically the thought that, hey, if you're for the revolutionary government, you will turn and oppress those who are not, who are against it. And it really created, like, a huge military power imbalance against, like, the French citizens. It was terrible. Genuinely terrible. It was that bad from too bad. It went from, like, oh, shoot, this is pretty rough, to Rose Pierre is in power now, it's going to get a lot worse. So much worse. Because, you know, the executions and stuff were still going on. The number I gave you before was the overall, like, amount of people who were killed just during this period of time when Rose Pierre was in charge. It was really bad. Which then there was, like, you know, the white terror that came after it. But, like, you know, he had forced farmers to give their grain to the army because they needed the food because they didn't have enough food. They passed the law of suspects, which authorized the imprisonment of anybody who was deemed anti-revolutionary, you know. Which this created, like, a big overflow in, like, the prison system. It was crazy. Yeah. And... You go to jail. You go to jail. I could imagine. Yeah. It was really bad. And the convention ended up, they did end up, you know, extending the price fixing from grain and bread to other essential goods. And they did also fix some of the wage gap inequalities. But, you know, that's kind of like sticking a band-aid on the Grand Canyon. There's always the good things that they do, but there's... You always have those good things sprinkled. You always have those bad things with a nice layer of sprinkled nice things on top. Be like, oh, we did all this horrible junk to you, but look at this. You can vote. So, yeah, really great stuff. Which a lot of the good things ended up, you know, being taken away. Like, there was originally, when the French Revolution was happening, like, the first bit of it was happening, there was a law that was basically allowing women to divorce their husbands for, like, any reason, you know, that they deemed necessary. Let me guess. Immediately taken away. It got taken away. Yeah, I figured as much. It was immediately taken away because his wife was like, ooh, now that this is an option. That wasn't wise, but anyways. No, I'm just guessing. So, on October 16th, Marie Antoinette, after, like, a pretty decently long trial, she was executed. And by the 24th of October, the French Republican calendar was enacted. So, basically, they just upended the calendar that they had for years and years for, you know, because it was, because they wanted to. Because it was due to, like, a dechristianization program they had going on, which, you know, they decided to change the calendar to be more, you know, reflective of the French government. So, but on the same day this happened, the trial of, like, the Burundians who were, like, arrested, that started. And by the 31st of October, they were all executed. Oh. Yeah, because they didn't agree with Robespierre. You don't agree with him, you die. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. Lovely. We love a man on a tyrannical power trip. That's exactly what happened. He became the villain. Harvey Dent who? Yes, I know, I've made that joke before. It's just becoming more irrelevant now. The chosen one? You were the chosen one, Sadie. You were supposed to create a better France, not destroy it. Why are you? You know how it is. You see the glimpse of power and you're just like, ooh, shiny. So, by the 10th of November, which it wasn't called November anymore, but to keep from a confusion arising, I'm not going to call it its French calendar name. As we all know was Croissant. No, but they ended up organizing this thing called the Festival of Reason, which this was basically like the culmination of like their anti-Christian sentiments. Which there's a bunch of really messed up stuff that happened like against like Christians, like the Catholics here. For one instance, like nuns and priests were forced to have sex. The frick? Yeah, to basically break their sacramental vows. They were forced to have sex with each other to break their sacramental vows. Okay, truly that's messed the frick up. Yeah, and then they would be forced to renounce their faith. That's horrible. Yes, though what a lot of them would do is... Stay outside their doors? Um, they would kind of... What was it? They all had to... What? Was that just... No, they would put them in like a room or something or in a tent together and they would not... They would be forced to stay in there until proof that sex had happened. Which, what a lot of them did... That's disgusting. They would make like a cut on their hand and like stain the clothes like with blood and whatnot to make it seem like, oh, the virgin woman here, she is... She got... They did the dirty. They did the down and dirty. They had sex. But yeah. Honestly, that's disgusting. This whole thing is the most disgusting I've been the whole time. Yeah, yeah, I truly I get the, you know, like the whole, ah, off with their head, kill, oh no, the queen's dead, the king's dead, blah, blah, blah. I get that. But like murder happens all the time. Like, basically, they were, they were like, for sex. That's kind of like, that has to be like a form of rape. Like on both sides. Yeah. It is a form of rape. Okay. Because both parties do not consent. It's really screwed up because yes, like, you know, the nun and the priest had to like, you know, consent to doing it, but like, their other option was to die. So, you know, it was basically... I still don't think that's a form of consent. Die or do this? No. That wouldn't hold up in a court of law. It'd be like they were forced under heavily horrible circumstances to do this or die. Wouldn't you have picked the same fate? Yeah, it was really screwed up. So, you know, on the 10th of November, due to their campaign against like Christianity, they ended up organizing a festival of reason where they were basically being like, we don't, you know, they were announcing their former Catholic religion. And they were basically being like, hey, all we care about is like our mind and using reason and whatnot. Then speeding along by the 5th of December, the convention passed a law which basically gave them more power and control. Wow. Yeah. Awkward. Yeah, who would have guessed? Who would have guessed? They were like, oh, shiny, I want it. I will say by the 4th of February of 1794, the National Convention did decree that they like abolish slavery in all of France and their colonies. That's really great. Let's be honest. That's a really great thing that they did. But they're still absolutely horrible at this point. Yeah, they are. They really are. And then on the 26th of February and the 3rd of March of 1794. That's straight up, that's like you saying, oh, I hate women and I've hit women and stuff like that. So I'm going to give a billion dollars to a woman's charity, but I'm going to still hit women. By the end of 1793, two major factions had emerged, right? And both of them were really threatening the revolutionary government. There was the Herbertist who called for like an intensification of, you know, the reign of terror. And they threatened, you know, insurrection if they didn't get it. And then there was the Dantonist led by the former leader of the National Convention, George's Danton. So it would be the Dantonist, I believe. But anyways, who they demanded more like moderation and clemency. The Committee of Public Safety, yeah, they took action against both. The major Herbertists, they were arrested and tried and then executed on the 24th of March. And the Dantonists were arrested on the 30th of March, tried from the 3rd to the 5th of April, and executed on the 5th of April. Did anybody survive the trials? Very, very few. On the 8th of June, remember the Festival of Reason that was set up in 1793? Yes. Well, Robespierre, in like probably some of his biggest bout of megalomania, started a cult called the Cult of the Supreme Being. My man started a whole cult? Yes, and basically their whole deal was to celebrate the Supreme Being, right? Let me guess who the Supreme Being was. I'll give you two choices. It's either Robespierre or anyone else. Robespierre, final answer. Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner. Yes! So, yeah, really, it was his biggest bout of megalomania, I would have to say. This guy is the most humble guy I've ever heard of. Just so incredibly humble. This is the most narcissistic bull crap I've ever heard of. It's really strange, I'm not going to lie. By the 10th of June, the National Convention proposed a law by George Coulson, known as the Law of the 22 Parioles, which basically just simplified the judicial process and really accelerated the work of the Revolutionary Tribunal, which, if you remember correctly, they were the ones who were executing everyone. Wow. So the speed of the executions shot up ridiculously. They're like, guys, guys, let's all be honest here. What's the best option? We are overcrowding our prisons. Uh, shouldn't we... Add more! No, Jeffrey. Shouldn't we let more people go? Everybody, get a load of this guy! On that note, you're going to be the first one to go on our new execution. We call it speed running. Speed running life, any percent. Any percent. Honestly, doesn't matter if you did it or not at this point. We just need to make space. So, good luck. Hope you don't die. Yeah. Honestly, we're joking. We do hope you die. So, yeah. This happened, which after there was some could say like one good thing that kind of came about by this law, which this ended up, this law itself led to, you know, the second part of the reign of terror, which was called the Thermidorian Reaction, which was really also really, really bad with a lot of unnecessary deaths and a lot of like not good executions, right? But, so, this law basically made it, was set in, was actually, you know, put in power by like the same people who like, remember the people that he like executed a bunch of the major players of like a few minutes ago? Yeah. This was a law that was kind of enacted by those people, by both the moderates who were like opposed to the revolutionary government and the more radical party who wanted like, you know, more terror. And basically, this law had like a charge against Robespierre himself. What? Yeah. So, you know, Robespierre, during like a meeting or whatever, he was going to like, he was talking to people and basically being like, I have a list of all the people who are going to be on the chopping block. There's some people in this room who's going to be on it. Ouch. Yeah. So, they basically were like, all in favor of executing Robespierre. And they were like, yeah, sure. Oh. Yeah. So, you know, they tried to shoot and attack Robespierre and arrest him. There's two stories to how this goes. One was that as he was escaping the meeting hall, he ends up getting shot in the jaw but surviving. And he escapes to his house where he's later, you know, captured by the people who wanted him dead, which is a lot of people. Of course. The other story goes- Which is basically the whole of France. The other story goes that he tried to kill himself but ended up shooting off his jaw instead and then was arrested and put on trial. Wow. Either way, makes the guy look like a total wimp. Yeah. It shattered his jaw completely. So, then, like, this had all happened during, like, a storming of, like, the municipal hall of Paris. So, it's like nobody's 100% sure about where the heck this bullet wound came from, but there's a couple of artist renditions of what happened to him after he got his head chopped off. Because, you know, he was arrested, he was tried, and then, you know, the very next day, like, after he was arrested, he was executed. He was guillotined. And his jaw was being held to his head by, like, you know, nothing. Right? It came off after he was beheaded. I'm not gonna, like, put an image in the chat, like, the viewers, the listeners here won't actually be, like, able to see this. For graphical reasons, we do not want to be demonetized. But for those of you who want to, like, you know, see, look up what his head looked like after he was executed, it's some, it's a bit of some gnarly stuff, not gonna lie. Because his jaw came off. Like, his jaw, here, here's a, here's, like, I believe a recreated image of what his head looked like. I'll paste it in the chat. Here's what people believed he looked like. Are you ready for this, Bethany? Yes. His jaw was being held onto his face, it was, like, half hanging off. It was being held on by that, like, piece of cloth. Wow. Yeah, very brutal stuff. And, you know, when he was executed, they also executed, like, some people, you know, people who, like, supported him and whatnot, and his brother, Augustine. And truly, there was no side where you weren't just getting executed just for living at this point. Yeah, and, like, as the revolution goes on, there's more killings and stuff that goes on until, like, the eventual, like, takeover of Napoleon. But this is the end of our podcast today. We're ending it with the execution of Robespierre. It was genuinely, it was an interesting tale, in my opinion. You see this bright-eyed, bushy-tailed person who genuinely cares about the rights of others and, like, doing the right thing and truly protecting everyone's liberty. And then. Turn into this tyrannical, like, I honestly want to say evil megalomaniac. And straight up went from, I want to save the world, I want everyone to have rights to power, this is fun, I like to kill people, this is great, and you know what? I'm just going to say it. I'm a god. I'm just a god. It's genuinely, like, a crazy thing that happened. But. Absolutely. That's the end of our podcast today, listeners. Please come back again if you enjoyed. If you didn't enjoy, you know, you can leave a comment or something or whatever, wherever this is. Blah, blah, blah. But if you hate me, please don't tell me. I am very emotional. Yeah, yeah, same. But thank you for joining me, Bethany and EJ. I really appreciated you guys being here and hopefully I can get a good grade on this project. Am I right? Thank you for having us. Ha ha ha ha. Not if I can help it. All right. Well, this is Dub, EJ, and Bethany of the. Bethany! It's Bethany. And Bethany of the Dumb Trio signing off. Be good people. Bye! I'm the best. EJ's better. I love you, Bethany. Love you, EJ. Da da da da da da. Don't execute innocent people. All right. Bye. Yeah.