La Revolution Francaise: Robespierre's Fall (Part 1)
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- A loosely translated version of the French film, "La Revolution Francaise". Again, I stress that the subtitles are loosely transcribed. While an English version of this film does exist, I found the French version of Thermidor (Robespierre's fall) to be infinitely more moving.
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Imagine being peasant far in deep of village and hear about the news. Constantly "WTF is happening in Paris."
Sounds a little like America right now.
I feel like that's pretty much always the sentiment of the rest of France lol
There were so many revolts caused by difference factions I think the respond is "WTF is happening with this country".
Like today's america
Hahahahaha
When they were all screaming "Tyrant!" as the subtitles said, they were actually screaming "Death to the Tyrant"
Mort tyrant? That's what they were crying?
hagamapama “Mort au tyrant” yep
Napoleon: “Hold my wine”
@@nkt0811
Robespierre's tyranny was much worse than Napoleon's
Napoleon strove for law and order and he kept his anti opposition tactics down to a minimal. However his stunning successes on the battlefield, his sheer popularity, charisma and lowly initial status in life really endeared him to many French as they put their lives down in battle for him and for the nation.
He was not only a brilliant commander, but also a brave soldier, literally leading from the front at Siege of Toulon against ferocious British grapeshot fire from cannons. He was utterly exposed at the bridge of Arcole in his Italian campaign. His ADC literally flung himself at Napoleon to save him from volleys of Austrian musket fire in the thick of the combat situation, just opposite of the bridge.
It is such inconspicuous gallantry in the face of his own troops, his fellow Frenchmen, that he gained impeccable status and inspirational leadership. Not since Alexander the Great do we see a national commander, leading with such gusto, with innovative and driven approach to defeat world class standing armies in lightning campaigns, using meager resources on his own end.
Napoleon wasn't any of those opportunist, lower talented individuals in the revolutionaries of the Cordeliers club, Jacobins or Girondinists. Those were men who desired power and seized the opportune and used their own voice to create an uproar. Napoleon was a well trained, hard working, genius military commander who studied and studied countless military tactics, like Frederick the Great, before he showed his masterclass in strategy and tactics at the Siege at Toulon.
So he was a real battlefield genius and everyone trusted him because he could convince and plan a masterstroke before his superiors and they always consider his plans capable of ensuring success in the battlefield. His actions, saved the revolution from foreign annexation and invasion. Amongst all the French, he rose to power on merit as well as luck.
If you watch the movie "The Death of Stalin", you'll see many parallels between Robespierre's downfall in this film and the downfall of Lavrenty Beria. Beria made the same mistake where he said he had dirt on everyone and threatened to take them all down, forcing his fellow officials to gang up on him.
Except IRL it's unlikely beria actually told presidium he had dirt on them. They just knew that, but also all basically hated Beria
@@britishnerd3919 He was an easy man to hate.
@@deanpd3402When you can't keep your hands to yourself eventually they'll get cut off
It was a mess, Staln Beria, you mean Trotski and Lenin is a different matter
Same with Joseph Goebbels. Same with Joseph McCarthy. It’s right out of the fascist playbook 😄
Robespierre: I have in my hand a list of people to be sent to the Guillotine and many of YOU are on this list, but I'm not telling who yet. What do you think of that
Guy in the assembly: I think we should send Robespierre to the Guillotine first. All in favor?
*Everyone's hand goes up*
Robespierre: OooooOooh NoooOooo!
Part of oversimplified
Oversimplified haha
A bit oversimplified, don't you think?
To the guillotine!
*_There's a tax for that!_*
He basically signed his death warrant with that speech. Not naming the names on his 'blacklist' was a final nail in the coffin since people in the Committe of Public Safety and the civilians (who loved Danton) was already turning against him and they were watching carefully Robespierre's every move. However, there's guys like Bertrand Barère who was also responsible for causing reign of terror yet, managed to survive through the french revolution and died old.
Clearly you know history. You can believe what you want, because there is no way to prove what is right or wrong but, I personally believe Robespierre was about to denounce people like Barère or Billaud-Varenne. Who were the original creators of the terror. Billaud-Varenne proposed the law of 14 of Frimaire, in which power was concentrated in the committee of public safety. And Barère was since the beginning on the committee of public safety. Like you said Robespierre mistake was not to mention their names, I'm sure if he had mention Barère or Billaud-Varenne, or people like Fuche, others would not have moved a rock to save them.
Committee of Public Safety = C.O.P.S.
Make of that what you will. 😁
@@fawziekefli2273 Except it would be CdSP in French
I made a very big mistake
Absolutely Danton while not perfect was a true French hero in many eyes possibly Max was jealous
I love the face he makes at 4:06. You can see it in his eyes he just realized hes completely lost control.
This Revolution was a series of people instigating its phases losing control. It started as a Bourgeois political spat, but the mob was rallied to aid the cause with violence, then the Bourgeois lost control of the mob, then Robspierre played a Cromwell character, took control after the Mars massacre and turned paranoid tyrant then the military took control...to be r ruled by Directorate which itself was overthrown in 1799 and by 1804 the general that overthew the directorate made himself Emperor.
@@STho205It really was the definition of a path to hell made with good intentions.
@@TheNapster153And it was all in 2 years
One of the interesting details in this is the bells that rang as Robespierre fled to the hotel de ville. During those years these bells were a call that the commune needed support and for the working class sections of Paris and the National Guard to mobilise and pressure the National Convention. In all cases prior to this the masses gathered was great enough that the Convention saw that the people were with the commune, not them, and they basically bow to the will of the commune.
However, during this the fall of Robespierre, famously the bells rang again but only 13 of the 48 sections of Paris mobilised. The numbers of communards and national guards units you saw there defending the Hotel de Ville was a fraction of what they were before. And that was how you could tell that the people had at this point largely deserted Robespierre. Or else the convention would have never been able to arrest them.
Revolutionary power is both a function of numbers and guns.
somethins similar happened in Hebert's case months before I believe? He couldn't get enough supporters to rebel. I personally think it's not only about if they got deserted by the people, but also that most of the people were growing tired of revolution and didnt want to actively take part in it anymore. It's understandible considering the situation after the fall of Girondins didn't get much better and the war
@@joshuafeng4630 absolutely, I think keyword is active, actively support or defend.
Like the Bolsheviks didnt have close to the majority of Russia behind them, but the Provisional govt was so unpopular and lacked literally an iota of support that nobody was willing to actively defend it, and the Bolsehviks had an active supporter base.
@@HansenDing That and when the civil war was in progress at that point the whites, were little more than war lords, aristocrats and old Tsarist generals, the bolsheviks however, bad where seen as a better alternative for most
Is that a young Napoleon sent by the Convention to arrest Robespierre?
Robespierre is seen going through severe stress and panic attack, you
See how his voice is cracking. He is literally going through an anxiety meltdown.
No doubt the stress was horrible and Robespierre had been ill. Had he not been killed, illnesses would have done the job.
No he had tuberculosis and it got worse at that time, he was too weak to defend himself, they show him coughing on his cloth
@@Androids23 pues la maldad se paga como dicen
@@Androids23 Back then, everybody was sick. Robespierre did have a good doctor (Souberbielle). That doctor's photograph can be Googled. He was real old (taken in the 1830s).
Robespierre has a Smallpox in his left cheek.
Well, THAT escalated quickly....
they have been waiting to catch him for a while at this point, he had been spreading terror around france
Welcome in France my guy!
Robbespiere government has fallen down just in one night
Not quickly enough.
True
I am actually impressed by the talent of this actor. very well played
fact that he is polish and franch is not his native language is preaty impresive
He was a great theater actor of the Comédie Française. His version of Molière Dom Juan was and I think is still a milestone
Andrzej Seweryn. Polish. Still performing in cinema, tv, and theatre (he is also director of a theatre in Warsaw).
D'accord.
@@JSheridanEntilZha he also played in the movie The Maharabatha,with Victor Mezzogiorno and other actors who played in La Révolution Française
The long haired associate is St Just, who, by all accounts, was so heartless, emotionless and enigmatic that some contemporaries compared him with a "well-chiselled face of cold, hard marble..." He died on the guillotine the same day as his master, Maximilien Robespierre.
That's a recitation of the most cartoonish and crudest parts of the old reactionary propaganda. Fictional, like most of the script of this movie. The Thermidorian version of this period and its gross lies and fake anecdotes (staged in this mediocre movie) have been largely debunked and refuted by the modern historiographical research. The struggle for an egalitarian society is still very much current. In France, the solidarity and equity system (the logical continuation of the successive revolutions and obtained by long popular struggles) is currently threatened like never before since the end of WW2 and the beginning of the fifth republic by the neoliberal and greedy oligarchy (or rather their servants) in charge. We would really need a Saint-Just right now. And above all we would really need a popular insurrection.
I believe St. Just had served some time in prison for stealing from his mother.
"L ' Archange de la Terreur"...He was 24...
St-Just said "No freedom to the ennemies of liberty."
@@steveshapiro326 Wtf? 😮
1st rule of being a successful tyrant, accuse some and let everyone turn against them to save themselves.
Do not accuse everyone or leave everyone open to accusation at once, they'll have no where to turn except against you.
Stalin would like a word with you
Robespierre did this sort of accusation because he thought that, by scaring everyone with those threats, maybe some of them would have joined him and maybe even sold some of the members of the Commission to avoid the purge. Bad choice indeed. You should announce a purge when you already have enough supporters. If you don't make clear who's going to die, people will not know how big are their chances of surviving the purge and, instead of risking, they will choose to save themselves.
Ramblin' Bob
Rob was a principled man
Anyone remembered Saddam Hussein's and his brilliant purge? By the end some were praising as akin to a god haha
@@alessiodelcastillo1613 OP was right. Stalin was poisoned by Beria. Even Stalin fucked ut up, but he did better than most in the tyrant game.
"When you sent thousands to the guillotine so hard that you sent yourself as well." ~ Maximilian Robespierre
Think about it murderer killing innocent people and their wives and saying he believes in equality, all his decisions were based solely on gaining and keeping power and nothing else, he even killed his friends..
He never said that
He did, it’s in the History Channel
@@darrowdapper9659 Where did he say it? What is History Channel?
@@yoyomx2932 he say it in the radio and better check out history channel they gots nice alien babezzz
2:57 That guy behind Saint-Just made me crack in laughter. Because his face, in a few seconds, says volumes. Like "You DO have names in this massive conspiracy theory of yours, right?"
Loool. And look what severe disappointment has lead to!
lmao he was rlly waiting for him to pull out the receipts
Robespierre is played here by a very prominent Polish actor, Andrzej Seweryn. He is also member of Comedie Francaise.
People claim that I ursurped the French crown, but it is not true! I found it in the gutter!
(Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French)
People who accuse Napoleon of "destroying the republic" apparently have some kind of selective amnesia. Max and his loons had done that years before!
@@Danko_Sekulic Well the other reason why Napoleon is seen a the butcher of the Republic is the constitution of secret police during his reign. Republican sympatizers and activistes were hunted, emprisonned or execute in france, Italia and other part of the empire.This political police prooved to be damn effective and french republican took a hard hit during his reign. Restauration monarch would inherit this political police but it lacked the popular support and the loyalty towards the regim to operate efficiently for them.
Cao Cao may have said a similar thing.
Waterloo?
The whole point of the Revolution is to deposed the monarch, yet several years later they have a new one under much better man, and they love him
"All those in favor raise their hand."
I love how you see some people raising their hand quickly, while other did it slowly or reluctantly. Although they called it a vote, nobody would vote against, since that would probably doom oneself.
This is the same as now political party, the follower will follow the leader and raise hand when ordered
@@kelvindoang1228 Yeah.
I was seeing the result of a vote the other day and was appalled.
You had some parties where everybody voted exactly the same.
The worst is that for the politicians, not doing so is an act of treason.
Actually it's the opposite, voting in favor would be a death sentence if Robespierre would have keep the power, this period isn't called the terror for nothing.
“Robspiere has arrived”
Them: *exits the room fast af* 🤣
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The guy grabbing him when Robespierre tries to sit down actually yells "Get back! These are the seats of honest men that you murdered!"
C'est magnifique , les décors et les costumes , vraiment d'époque ! Félicitation au costumier et à l' historien !
Je suis tout a fait d'accord.
Oui!
Magnifique ecriture!
Je n'aime que ses lunettes qui sont assez stylées
A l’historien ? Je ne crois pas…
French politics was real rough back then. The momentum was swinging the other way; and The Terror was now consuming its own perpetrators. Robespierre’s enemies could sense it and could smell blood.
Interesting fact: the best parts of Robespierre were played by great polish actors: here Andrzej Seweryn and in the movie "Danton" Wojciech Pszoniak. Masterpiece.
One of the greatest historical films ever... which makes it one of the greatest _films_ ever! Depardieu's most riveting performance too, in a career absolutely brimming with such performances.
@@zonesquestiloveunderworldWhere is Depardieu I can't see him
Are you Polish, yourself?
@@benisrood yes, i'm
I am so glad of the subtitles in English or Spanish so I can watch this and understand what they are saying. Also helps me to practice in my French language studies!
Look into the comments there are some lines that got mistranslated
Rosetta Stone French ! The best method to date
je réponds il faut apprendre le français c'est la plus BELLE langue du MONDE !
Subtitles! That's how I learned English.
Robespierre: I am not a tyrant!
Also Robespierre: Shut down all press and anyone against me!
That's right, but in the same time needless to say that all was mess and chaos everywhere in the coutry
The man wanted to guillotine everyone who oppose him. That's pretty much how dictators operate
@@subashgrg4666 frankly you haven't read anything on Robespierre, did you ? Oversimplified isn't a source. The "Tyrant Robespierre" archetype was created by his opposition to put dirt on his legacy. Just remember that the ones who arrested him were the likes of Fouché, who literally wanted to genocide a whole city with cannons.
@@jeandarwin9143 The good citizen Robespierre just killed 40,000 people in the guillhotine.
@@chevalierduchrist1754 you should actually read books instead of literally following the propaganda created by thermidorians -----> "Robespierre, la fabrication d'un monstre" by Jean-Clément Martin (a historian speicalised on the guy) is very enlightening, unfortunately it is in french.
Truly, cancel culture has gone too far
Just give thanks that the SJWs don't have guillotines yet
@@stvdagger8074 Man, that would be cool
@@stvdagger8074 They have digital guillotine aka Twitter.
@@AbstractSloth yeah that's cool indeed
Until you lose your head
Your having neck priviledge is canceled.
you could make a religion out of th-
no don't
I don’t get this
@@alessiodelcastillo1613 Cult of the Supreme Being
Too late
@@alessiodelcastillo1613 it's a reference to a youtube video titled "History of the world" by Bill Wurtz
SaltyBoi UWU ooooh link?
When Robespierre is asked to give them the names, he looks at Saint-Just for a moment: “Should mention him to save myself?”
And Saint-Just looks like he’s afraid Robespierre will do so.
C'est vrai.
that's such a messed up take! I thought in that moment he was like "crap, I wasn't expecting them to demand names, what should I do now?!" And Saint-Just have that expression, because he, just like Robespierre didn't thought about this part and was just expecting them to be afraid enough to shut up
For a brief moment it definitely crossed his mind
no cuz saint just was more radical than rbespierre. At least rbespierre had a more sensitive approach towards others than saint just. Tho rbespierre had the title of incorruptible
I love even the soldiers are abandoning Robespierre. "Fuck this! I ain't getting paid enough to guard this asshole."
During the debate on whether to grant King Louis a jury trial and the presumption of innocence, the greatest anti-monarchist and opponent of the hereditary right in the history of the English language, Thomas Paine, spoke in defence of the principal, regardless of the fact he despised the monarchical institution. He tried to ensure that France would be born in true liberty and equality.
Robspierre opposed him. And soon after, Robespierre met the end he crafted for himself.
By whatever judgement you judge, you shall be judged. -Jesus.
Excellent post. I never thought of that. In fact the decision on how to handle the trial of the king was probably the moral and ethical turning point of the revolution. Turning back could only happen with bloodshed.
Considering the English had a trial and execution of Charles 1 in 1649. The path had already been trod.
@@Trebor74 The English learnt from the mistakes of the civil war and commonwealth, which is why the Glorious Revolution succeeded in re-establishing historic English liberty's and the historic English principal of English Limited Monarchy, of which the modern form that they created is now know as Constitutional Monarchy, which still exists to this day, which then gave rise to Parliamentary Democracy, which also still exists.
And long may that continue.
Yes. Thomas Paine should be
remembered by Citizens of US
UK and France !! He stood for
liberty , justice and dignity for all
( incl slaves ) and made some of
greatest speeches in History !
7:16 He actually says :
: "A bit of courage" (show some guts)
"And to your health, bastards !" (Cheers, bastards)
"Align yourselves" (get in ranks)
"To the barricade"
"And (long) live the republic"
And at 8:43 he say « Come back here ! Bunch of chickens, bastards ! »
« Roughnecks ! Shitty soldiers » (I’m not sure about this one « soldats de merde »)
« Scum ! Come back cowards ! »
No one:
Robespierre: *Wears sunglasses before they were even invented*
"The reflected light of my own brilliance is overwhelming." - Robespierre, probably
That humorous inaccuracy aside, this scene alone shows why Robespierre was so dangerous. Very sly with his words, and yet extremely cunning in terms of seeking power. By refusing to say names, he was essentially asserting the right to condemn and execute any of them. No wonder people cheered when he was finally guillotined.
Sunglasses existed back than. It is accurate. Look at contemporary sources.
Et ta connerie...tu l'as inventé ou c'est de naissance?
@@kristofantal8801 Robespierre wore glasses all his life. Spectacles existed since the Middle Ages. I think John Wilkes Booth wore sunglasses.
Excellent job on the actor's part when he responds to the accusations of tyrant. That's the point when he realizes the danger he is now in.
Robespierre should have stayed home that day.
@@steveshapiro326😂😂😂yah
I love these old historical films-I remember the one's from the 80's shown here in the States and this one looks to be late 80's, anniversary of the French Revolution. They simply don't make them anymore.
And the ones they do make are over dramatised, these ones are perfect
@@BannedIP I was expecting another sjw ruinned everything comment. Thankfully, someone understood. Hollywood and most productions felt the need to dumb down because they had no belief in the audience capacity for intelligence. Appealing to sjws are just appealing to dumb down philosophies, nothing more.
@@Account.for.Comment so we have the books left 😉
This was a multi national multi part production commemorating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. The actors were chosen from around the world. There used to be a clean english language copy of all the parts on youtube, but I can't find it anymore. And at one point Amazon did have a listing for the whole shebang. Sadly, the French didn't really respond well (read, at all) so it just seemed to fizzle out and disappear. Pity. It was hours and hours of pure joyful entertainment, even if you did know what was going to happen.
@@710LENNY Back in the old days when we had 5 channels to choose from networks used to invest quite a bit into mini-series. Learn French I guess lol.
Romanian dictator Ceausescu also had his "Robespierre moment".
What exactly happened to him?
Aryan got shot.
@@remenir97 I know he got executed but how did he get ousted from power?
@@Gg-qx3vo he made a public speech that went wrong
He made a speech, not just that but trying to create a reform amidst a rebellion. People just can't stop booing him and he went to seek shelter. The rest you know.
"Bastards" translated as "Citizen"
"Long live the Republic" translated as "That's an order"
LOL
Certainly the bald man at 4:06 is one of the bravest. He said Robesipierre is a tyrant right next to him
Dfathurr if you watch the entire movie you realize this bald guy was one of Danton best buddy, at that point he probably hated Robespierre pretty badly ... still take corones to call him a tyrant right next to him ... I mean if he doesn’t die on this you probably will ...
That's Louis Legendre, Danton's best friend. He hate Robespierre for killing Danton
There's another bald man who died though. They looked similiar.
Why did he kill his friend Danton?
I think I also heard the word "lâche (coward)."
Le meilleur film historique auquel j’ai pu assister de toute ma vie de Français.Les acteurs formidables ,chacun jouant son rôle parfaitement ,remarquablement, m’ont permis d’assister en spectateur d un événement que je pouvais toucher de ma main, ils me frôlaient.Bravo j’ai vécu cette Révolution et cette 1 ère Constitution qui me permettra d’être un Français libre.merci
If I can help...
3:45 "Let my attackers prepare their poison" (ciguë = hemlock)
3:52 "Why go on living where truth and lies are undivided" ... not "invisible"
“Indivisible”
And inbetween "I shall drink it upon these sacred seats"
4:02 Death to the tyrant!
also 2.22 "greed and fear" not "grief and fear"
It's such an underrated movie. For me it's a strong 10/10.
one of the best acting performances ever, by all the cast
The whole movie is incredible 🙂
Absolutely incredible acting I felt I was there
Robesbierre: Doesn't give the names
France: That's where your'e wrong kiddo
For anyone who's a fan of Aaron Sorkin. This was a Ten Word Answer moment. Robespierre basically said "members of this government are traitors and I know who." A bold claim, but he didn't have the next Ten Words to back it up. He had no names, in his mind it was pretty much anyone who opposed him for any reason and everyone saw right through it. We see alot of this today too, members of congress standing and making a bold claim about their opposition but when pressed to prove it or provide a solution for it, they have nothing.
Yep. Same thing hitler, stalin & the U.S. democrat party. Typical leftist orthodoxy; Tyranny & corruption aka socialism.
Glad robespierre was brutally tortured & executed along with his comrades. Though even that was too good for him.
Same thing that did in Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare.
@@zenferg Senator McCarthy's anti-hitler efforts were noble. Only guys that are pro-hitler, aka socialists, would say otherwise.
@@Archedgar You need to go back and study your history. Socialists were not at all pro-Hitler. Hitler went out of his way to aid Franco in Spain in his attempt to overthrow the elected socialist government there.. And as far as McCarthy being anti-Hitler, after WWII... McCarthy attacked the war crimes trials the Allies held for German war criminals. He said it was pure vengeance. It should be noted there were a lot of fairly recent German immigrants in his state of Wisconsin who were not anxious to punish Germans for events in the war. As far as Hitler's attitude towards the socialists, he hated them. He considered them as next-door to Communists as objects of hatred. Only Jews and Communists were worse in Hitler's eyes. There were many German socialists in the death camps.
@@zenfergJoe McCarthy was right all along. The KGB Venona files proved him right.
In this French film (1989), Robespierre was played by a Pole, Andrzej Seweryn. In turn, six years earlier (1983), in the Polish-French film Danton (director Andrzej Wajda), Wojciech Pszoniak played Robespierre. There, Seweryn also played (Bourdon), and Danton was played by Depardieu. To make it interesting, both actors Seweryn and Pszoniak) knew each other well and often played together (e.g. in "The Promised Land" by Wajda). It follows that Poles are suitable for playing the role of Robespierre. 🤣
Andrzej Seweryn did a great job as Robespierre (fun fact: if he spoke a very good French, Seweryn was dubbed by the wonderful French theater actor Gérard Desarthe, who also dubbed Wojciech Pszoniak as Robespierre in Danton).
Seweryn is a great actor, one of the few non francophone actors being hired by the Comédie Française, the oldest and most prestigious French theater company.
You can find on TH-cam Seweryn remarkable performance in Molière's play Dom Juan.
From Hero to zero real quick.
Lol 😂
4:24 watching robespierre having a mental breakdown is somehow funny
Everything else aside, I kind of love Robespierre's blue jacket and sunglasses. Its a Look
Yes, quite cool. Ripe for resurrection!
I like watching movies in their original language and having it translated to English because I appreciate the differences.
Robespierre was going to send many MORE to the guillotine.
*This angered the French people, who punished him severely*
I got this reference😉
You might say that he let his power go to his head
I love this film, but I wish they had shown a more detailed version of this particular scene, in which the first speaker was supposed to be Saint Just who was shouted down before Robespierre had to take up his defense. IDK, i'm just being picky I guess.
I really wish they had added Robespierre's last words in the convention. "Danton that is what you regret? Cowards why did you not defend him."
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That would make a great bit of dialogue! Why didn’t they add that?
They actually squished 7 & 8 Thermidor together, Robespierre came back the next day to supposedly name names, but never got the chance. Some think Saint-Just was going to make some attempt at reconciliation (a bit out of character for him, IMO), but he also was shouted down. I'm curious who is supposeed to be who in these scenes, who is Fouche & who is Barras?
@- navis - I just pity Louis XVI.. he barely had any time to defend himself..and he was pretty chill compared to other kings of his times
@@rias.gremoryyy Agree. Louis actually seems to be a decent and well-meaning king plagued by the hard times and bad luck France had to endure. He certainly was much better than all those who gain power after his downfall.
it's so interesting to see the fall of a would-be dictator. you almost see the moment where it all goes wrong for him.
A dictator ?
@@BS-rm1hv yes, is there a problem with what he said?
@@mahfoudseraf5995 He was the member of a collective, not a dictator.
@@BS-rm1hvbut quickly becoming too powerful, and power corrupts.
He is just like superman in Injustice. He was such an idealist to the point that if his family caught stealing a bread because of starving, he wouldn't hesitate to cut of his brothers hand. He fight for justice and liberty but in the end he act like he is the only one who know best and everybody must listen to him. That my friend, is the first step of being tyrant.
I don't think Robespierre favoured Sharia law, in all fairness 😮
@@anneclaffey2843 He was against religion, Catholic Church back in the day, let alone sharia law. He was upholding the idea of logic and reasons above all.
@@andiearyabima6499 I know. That's one of the reasons why I admire him so much ❤. As an Irish person, I'm only too aware of the damage 💔 the Catholic Church has inflicted over the years.
@@anneclaffey2843So you want to murder the clergy?
@@chillmemes5865 Who said anything about murdering clergy? Do me the courtesy of READING what I wrote. And find out something about the rôle of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Splendid. I have long been fascinated by Robespierre. On balance I am of the opinion that he was a well-intentioned man who was overwhelmed by the times with the Revolution devouring her own children. Ironically of course he was opposed to the death penalty.
It is interesting to see (and read) how power so quickly easily falls away from people. I well recall the downfall of the Communist Eastern Bloc countries and in particular the fall of Nicolas Ceausescu.
I would recommend studying 'the man of history' phenomenon.
Personnage intriguant de l'histoire. Une période absolument extraordinaire.
période de conflit et magouille d'aristrocrate égoiste , vachement une bonne période c'est même la pire période qui a causé la perte de celle-ci , la france s'en sortait largement mieux à l'époque des rois
@@Ash-vm3ut La France, peut-être. Le peuple, pas du tout. C'est pour ça qu'ils se sont révoltés, le petit peuple vivait mal face aux nobles et au personnes d'états. Retourner a la monarchie serait juste trahir le peuple français et son histoire.
Une période propice aux aventuriers de toutes sortes. Je descends de 2 agents révolutionnaires...🤨
Well. Tough crowd.
That moment Robespierre remembered why the French revolution happened in the first place
If I could go back in time to witness any event, I would go back to see Robespierre & Saint Just on the guillotine
Angry vengeful crowd: "The blood of Danton chokes you Robespierre."
Robespierre: "Now it is time for my Jesse Owens' impression."
Couthon: "Me too."
Those words helped Robespierre recover his voice as he spat back, "so it's Danton that bothers you. Cowards! Why didn't you defend him?" Which was fair enough. Even Legrande, who spoke the words, had undergone his Simon Peter moment and backed off defending Danton to save his neck after Danton's his arrest. I don't know why they cut it. It was a very telling moment.
Yeah if you are going to pull the "I have in my hand here a list of names..." and then not tell who the names are, after previously executing most of your friends and allies, then you better have armed guards nearby or be ready to launch a coup, otherwise they will gang up.
It was clear that his intention was to turn them all against one another, so he could then be able to get rid of anyone he felt was not loyal to him (He would say "the Republic", but we know better), then take control of the others, and the government, more easily.
@@Tyrunner0097kinda like internal “divide and conquer” strategy…
@@emrecck AKA The Long Knives
As many times I have watched this, I still wonder if Robespierre left his glasses on that podium.
He did actually, yes.
I would like to think that the last thing that passed through Robespierre's head, other than that bullet and much later the guillatine, was maybe he went a little too far. Of course it wasn't a little but not the point. Ultimately he dug his own grave and got what he deserved.
Nothing would instill my confidence and moral more than seeing my commander shouting about orders in a drunken state.
No imaginó que después, mucho tiempo después, para él, todo seguiría tan
confuso como en ese preciso instante en que sus ojos abiertos a rabiar
trataban de capturar una brizna de luz en la que apoyar su mirada, su
voz desgarrada dejó de resonar en sus oídos, envuelto en aromas de
sándalo y jazmín ausentes, su paladar intentaba recordar las caricias
del vino joven afrutado inundando su lengua al ritmo de las yemas de sus
dedos sobre teclas de marfil, ingrávido, impotente, aterrado. Sólo el
desvanecer del tiempo le llevó a olvidar sus sentidos, inmerso en el
bellísimo resplandor azul de un fino cordón de plata.
While Robespierre might have had good intentions from the beginning (I dont think so, but I give him the benefit of the doubt) he quickly became what so many Kings, Emperors and other men of power in history have experienced.
Mad with power...
and delusional
read one of Josephine's letters which she sent during her imprisonment (for the crime of being wife of someone which these people didn't like and executed) read how she describes the prison, how people are treated there and what exactly happened to her body which made her unable to have more children (Dark) no need to mention the kind of life was outside of that prison in Paris with all of those executions and don't even get me started on Vendee genocide and the fact that they even wanted to go as far changing Lyon's name!
imagine one of the leaders of your country's government calls all of this chaos and messes, a glorious republic which is also lawful and virtue🤣like don't you want to punch the guy in the face when he says that?🤣🤣🤣
The sound Of the wheelchair at 1:00
C'est le sang de Danton qui t'étouffe il t'étouffe j'adore cette phrase lorsqu'il dit ça
It is very interesting that during this period of tyranny in 1794 it was Danton on April 4th and the Robespierre and Saint Just and Coulthon on July 28th 1794. Beheaded and then heads raised to the people by Sansons crew. There must of been plenty of Head raising back the. Eugene Wiedman in 1939 and Christopher Lee was there who witnessed when he was 17. The public beheading and head raising. I believe the guillotine was last used in 1977 and abolished in 1981. Only Saudi Arabia is known for Public beheadings till this day. They are still head raising there.
Robespierre ruled through fear and division, this was meant to sow distrust and disunity in the assembly. Instead it united everyone against him.
2:52 “I’m about to pull what’s called a pro gamer move”
This is very well done , it is almost like being there as it happens !
The theatrics in this scene are amazing
Even the army hates Robiesppiere, shots were fired for thinking their fighting but its a faint and when the cannons turned towards the hotel, the real fighting begins.
Hôtel de Ville is the city hall of Paris.
“The blood of Danton chokes you.”
Seeing the scene at 3:45 during 2021 quarantine is giving me serious anxiety.
Goscinny and Gotlib speculated that if Robespierre was alive in the 1960s, his favorite tv show would have been The Untouchables.
@04:00 the Deputies are not shouting "Tyrant." They are shouting "Death to Tyrants." Kind of a big difference.
This actor is incredible
3:10 When it’s dinner and the food at your table doesn’t arrive yet and you been waiting for 10 minutes
THE FOOD! * the peeps start saying the food *
This scene in the Convention very cleverly parallels the one earlier in the movie when the Girondins were all rounded up and arrested, especially with the whole "des noms" thing. A nice piece of directing for this movie, shame the rest of it isn't exactly up to this standard, but only decent
Exactement! Merci beaucoup.
I think Robespierre left his glasses behind. Not that he'll be needing them later.
When someone mentioned Robespierre, Napoleon said: He is just a scapegoat
Eternă amintire pentru poporul francez care a schimbat istoria lumii !!!
Fantastic acting!
I get the feeling that maybe, he did not foresee this happening. The expression he gives when told to name the names... that's definitely a "oh Hell" look.
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.
Robespierre didn’t want to end the Reign of Terror, he wanted it to keep going. Others called for moderation - that’s why they were calling him a Tyrant. It was time for it to end and he did not want to relent.
@@InFideScientiam You got the point wrong
he was not taken down on his right by moderates, he was taken down on his left by the most radical revolutionnaries : Collot d'Herbois, Billaud-Varennes and Vadier, but also the "Représentants en Mission", the political commissaries that had commited the massacres in the countryside, and that Robespierre had dismiss for what they did : they were afraid that he hold them accountable for their crimes, so they took him down, and then pretended that him and Saint-Just alone, were responsible for the Terror.
@@InFideScientiam Robespierre knew that he would die before the Thermidor coup. In his speech, he mentioned that he would give his life to the conspirators.
He was referring to people who were very extreme and who used the revolution to get a lot of money, like Fouché, who caused the Lyon massacre
Tell you one thing and I'm not ashamed to say it, my estimation of Maximilien Robespierre as a man just fuckin' plummeted.
At least he never compromised! 😆
Why would any sane person be ashamed of calling out that leftist hypocrite asshole who wanted genocide to be committed on 40k people?
Oh, in my school I’ve learnt about Robespierre and the gullotine one from my favourite teacher - Monsieur Outemond, a French teacher born in USA.
Beautiful
well, I hear Vive la nation, the translation is vive le Robespierre, excellent
(Vive Robespierre)
Pas "le"
*You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain*-Harvey Dent aka Two Face.
Robespierre's case: *You either die accused by a hypocritical tyrant or you turn against the tyrannical accuser to save your own skin*
Accused of BEING a hypocritical tyrant******
Robespierre: I have a list of traitors in our midst!
Everyone: Who are they?
Robespierre: …..that’s not important right now
Robespierre: To the guillotine!
Gov’t: no u
Robespierre: OoooOooooOooh NoooOoooooOooo!
The subtitles are completely drunk
Pas faux. À 2:34, le terme cupidité est traduit par "grief"(le chagrin, la douleur) alors qu'il aurait dû être traduit par "greed"(avidité, cupidité, avarice...). Sans parler des passages non traduits, mais on peut saluer l'effort😌
@@Skadi609 English?
@@CoffeeSuccubus He said that the word for greed was translated into grief, also plenty of content was left untranslated at all.
@@yarpen26 Thanks🙏.
PS: I am she😉
@@CoffeeSuccubus
Roughly translated:
"At 2:34[Actually 2:23], the term "cupidité" is translated as "grief" (sorrow, pain) when it should have been translated as greed(cupidity, avarice) . Not to mention untranslated passages, but we can applaud the effort. "
Hope that clarifies everything 🙂
Ah, Robespierre! France's greatest villian! But they named a metro station after him.
He forgot his sunglasses,
me myself usually forget gloves and umbrellas
At 3:48 "Why go on living where truth and lies are indivisible" (not "invisible")
Poor King Louis RIP
My favorite part that I always rewatch.
"I'm Camembert, the big cheese!"
“OooooOooooh! NooooOooo!” - Maximilian Robspierre