The biggest is actually from a small brigadier-general... recommended by Antonin, Robespierre's brother. Maximilien warned against the rise of a future emperor.
Coming from the same people who applied this medicine with him to the French. What makes Robespierre still respected in France is that he was never an opportunist like Danton, the King's own cousin and all members of the National Convention. The Terror lasted another two years, but was now the "White Terror": anti-Jacobin politicians pursuing the policy against their new opponents.
Robespierre: I have in my hand a brand new list of enemies to be sent to the guillotine and many of you are on this list ! But I'm not going to tell you yet what do you think of that ? Government: Maybe we should send Robespierre to the guillotine first. All in favor? Robespierre: Oh Noooooooooooo!
In reality he said " All this ( French Revolution) is foreign and atheist plot, this is not time to revile the named but in due course I will" that's in reality what it said. It is recorded by Beilieu , Lefebvre though both were Royalists historians but if Louis Blanc, Sand, Sorell call them the most respected sources so should other people
His mistake was to come to the session alone with few supporters. If I was him I would storm the session together with my fanatic sans cullote mob revolutionary army and immediately order massacre of my enemy right there without even a court.
Reminds me of Berria. Same thing. Has hundreds of people killed(many of which were innocent), and raped countless women. In the end, he begged for his life before being executed.
It should also be noted that both the physical and mental health of Robespierre had rapidly deteriorated by the events of Thermidor. There is serious debate as to his sanity at the time of his final speech.
"Let me speak! Let me speak! O President of Assassins, would you give me leave to speak!" -Robespierre, shortly before the motion for his arrest was put forth by the Convention
He pretty much signed his own death warrant by declaring his intent to purge the committee without mentioning names, because at that point he could've meant literally any one of them present. What was he expecting? By that point he had alienated all of his allies and firmly established himself as an intoletant, uncompromising zealot who handed out death sentences the way Louis XIV handed out party invitations. Robespierre was the embodiment of the phrase "Fanaticism is the act of doubling your efforts after losing sight of your goal"
This reminds me of the scene in The Death of Stalin where Beria does exactly the same thing - says he has the dirt on his fellow ministers and threatens to use it against them without being specific. It's at that point that they know they have to take him out or he'll take them out.
Bruh why the hell would Robespierre guillotine 40000 people (most of which did literally nothing) but when he gets guillotined he has a meltdown and acts like a baby Karma
robespierre was screaming, because henri sanson ordered his assistants to remove the bandages which kept robespierre's injured jaw in place, even being careful. but he was screaming in pain. And a side note, after he was executed, the crowd celebrated for around 15 minutes.
Republican France was surrounded by enemies, both within and from abroad. Those executed were enemies of the Republic. A good 40,000 or so dead is a small price to pay for the survival f the Republic against the monarchists and foreigners looking to subvert the government of the people. Large numbers of fifth columnists must be liquidated as part of any revolution. The only unfortunate part was Robespierre falling before he could completely liquidate the enemies of the revolution. As a result, France eventually slipped back to the monarchist camp.
Robespierre: “I have me in my hand a brand new list of enemies to be sent to the guillotine. And many of you are on this list. But I’m not gonna tell you who yet. What do you think of that?” Member: “I… think we should send Robespierre to the guillotine first. All in favour?” Everyone: 3:19 Robespierre: “OoOoh NoOooOoo!!
The biggest irony is he was right about the danger of contrarevolution. Napoleon destroyed French democracy just few years later. He was arrested but eventually freed.
He's a leftist trash who wanted to sacrifice 10k to 20k people for the sake of changing france from a monarch to a republic, you can see him crying like the bleeding heart he is after realising he crossed the line!!!!!
A justly deserved punishment. How many innocents were killed because of him during the Reign of Terror? And what did he expect, marching into the legislature and announcing he was going to be arresting and executing a bunch of them, and oh, by the way, I won't name them?
I mean at first, his actions are to overthrow the monarchy which are justifiable at first but afterwards he became a crazy slasher and a dictator by just murdering random people who thought are planning to overthrow the revolution which yeah he did deserve it for murdering random people just because he thought are oppressors especially his Allies who are on his side are executed because he(Robespierre) didint like their ideas
Like how his head hit the right side of the basket there. Never realized it would happen that way, but actually, it had to with the angle of the guillotine blade.
@@singhatar0912 I've heard that he indeed design the guillotine blade to be at a 45 degree angle to guarantee that the head would always be cut off on the first drop.
The sad thing is that there were some really good people in there trying to improve what was a broken country full of suffering. It's just that in a fight like that where the rules are thrown out, good people stand no chance.
Honestly the biggest tragedy today is that so many great ideas that we live by today were set into motion in this revolution, but all most of us remember is this tiny man chopping off people's heads. He killed the men who began the revolution, and killed the men who sought to continue it, and arguably did nothing of note, yet we somehow remember him and not the people who made the revolution matter, like the Marquis De Lafatyette.
True, but it must be noted that alot of the revolution became tainted by his actions. Its hard to make a case for "Fighting for liberty and rights of men" when you basically were a absolute dictator killing people for virtually every juxtaposed reason on the spot.
Many great ideas ? Terrorism as a form to purge society Persecution of Christians Totalitarian state Mass murder of reactionaries The heirs of French revolution are the nazis and the communists
Well to be fair to Robespierre he was one of those early revolutionaries, and he was one of the more active members of the assembly and he actively opposed things like the death penalty (ironic) and pushed for the rights of orphans and children born out of wedlock, which had become a problem in French cities like Paris.
Marquis de Lafayette got totally sidelined early on in the Revolution. His only worthwhile contribution to it is giving France the famous national colors. He made a bigger impression upon world history by being in the frontlines in the US during the American Revolution and him being the guiding hand to the establishment of the July monarchy after the 1830 revolution as a compromise...
@user-pq4fc1mc7qIt really depends as to which POV you look it through. The woman was only 14/15 years old when she became Queen of France and a good chunk of the French population - both peasantry, the middle class, and the nobility - hated her on the get go for being (flip notes)... A "dirty foreigner", much worse an Austrian (being the daughter of Maria Theresa I of the Austrian Habsburgs, France's geopolitical nemesis for over 200 years). Her being shy and crowd-averse in the publicity-centric French Court made her unpopular with a lot of aristocrats and the 1788 Diamond Affair - where a female con artist used her name to hoodwink a horny Bishop and successfully sway public opinion on her side despite the Queen being entirely innocent and an actual victim of the swindle by using her poverty as a PR tool - made public perception of her worse. By 1793 when she stood on trial for treason and espionage, one of the evidence used against her was her being Austrian and nothing else. In hindsight, Marie Antoinette's crime was being an Austrian in a France that hates Austria, being an introvert in an extrovert-centric court, and being ill-prepared to deal with being a queen. She was in a bad place in a bad time and she suffered because of it...
y’all forgot how robespierre tried to shoot himself and shot his jaw off instead, then tried to jump to another building like spiderman and instead fell in an open sewer so they found him with his jaw hanging on the side of his mouth covered in shit, and when he was executed they tied his jaw back on
@@KalashVodka175fun fact : robespierre wasn't ready to sign dantons arrest warrant, he did it when there was proof of the French East India liquidation scandal.
Funny how in the comments the Americans shout the loudest about Robbespiere and "how evil" he was, forgetting that he actually is a divisive character in France. He was for democracy for all citizens, to abolish the death penalty, and abolish the atlantic slave trade. Ah, and there we have the real reason they hate him, or where the seeds of it lay in their education about the man. Napoleon (who also is divisive as a character) gets a similar treatment. Even though he reinstated slavery, he also did good and bad. Neither of these men were "pure evil". French revolutionary politics is incredibly interesting :) After all the period that followed after his death was also a terror period that killed thousands. This time from the conservative point anti left wing point. It would serve those that call Robespierre a monster, to read up on the whole of history. As really it is bloody all around, but interesting to an extreme.
Half assed attempt at ending slavery, and pretending to be protecting democracy (when robby was actually destroying it by acting as a tyrant) does not erase the horrific murders he committed. At least Napoleon made France great and he was respected almost universally in France. Robespierre only had supporters in Paris, everyone else (yes even the poorest sans culottes) hated and feared his guts because he was murdering his fellow revolutionaries and acting like a power grabbing tyrant in essence a bloodthirsty king
I think we Americans tend to see him wanting to abolish the death penalty but still using it as immensely hypocritical because we have a different outlook on law as something individuals with power or juries can nulify if we personally disagree with it. And then we tend to like Napolean because he killed more of his foes on the field rather than through the courts. We have more of a "frontier" mentality to put it politely.
@@goatcheezius2399 Or maybe your political mentality is extremely cartoonish, you see the world as a simple division, ''the good'' and the ''bad'' like children. You can't grasp how complex human nature is.
2 things wrong about his death. 1. He was placed face up so he could see it coming. 2. They botched the execution because of his injury. They actually had to force the blade down to complete the execution. All in all the jerk had it coming. He probably did lose his mind, in all honesty I think that's undisputable he founded a freaking Church to himself for god's sake if that ain't insane I don't know what is, but I think that undercuts how much of a cold blooded monster he was. Insane yes but make no mistake he was a monster that got what he deserved.
I read about Maximilien Robespierre in the library 📚 on the French Revolution book 📚 years ago and Maximilien Robespierre was played by a actor but the real Maximilien Robespierre whose nickname is the “incorruptible” in the Jacobin Club a courtroom people asked him to reveal their names but he refused to reveal their names and people who helped Maximilien Robespierre including his brother Augustin, Saint Just barricaded the courtroom to keep soldiers from coming in but it didn’t work out and didn’t hold them and the soldiers stormed in the Jacobin Club to defeat Maximilien Robespierre, his brother Augustin, Saint Just and his Robespierrists and whether Robespierre shot himself in the jaw or tried to commit suicide after he, his brother Augustin and Saint Just and his Robespierrists were arrested and Saint Just said “ at least we achieved something” and he, his brother Augustin, Saint Just and 21 of his Robespierrists were carted off to the guillotine and Saint Just went first before Maximilien Robespierre and when Maximilien Robespierre’s turn came his head was toppled into basket 🧺 for those lives he condemned he, his brother Augustin and Saint Just and his Robespierrists were guillotined on July 28, 1794 and the “Reign of Terror” had ended but the statue of Robespierre was never raised in Paris, France 🇫🇷 Robespierre represents respect ✊ pride and the next following days either 82 or 90 Robespierrists who supported Robespierre were guillotined and the Jacobin Club closed and never opened again and that really overthrew Robespierre and others and the “Reign Of Terror” died with Robespierre but the revolution doesn’t and France’s Flag really stand for Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.🇫🇷👍💯
The History TV, I also read the book about the tale of 2 cities London, Uk 🇬🇧 and Paris, France 🇫🇷 and I remember what the real Maximilien Robespierre looked like before he, his brother Saint Just and Couthon and other Robespierrists were guillotined and I also remember the guillotine a device that really cut people’s head off like Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Corday, Jacques Hebert, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Georges Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and the last person who was really guillotined in 1977 in Marseille, France 🇫🇷 is Hamida Djandoubi for kidnapping, murder and torture of his girlfriend and got what he deserved for what he did to her and I don’t think 🤔 the guillotine no longer used and I think 🤔 France 🇫🇷 has retired it’s guillotine years ago and thank you 🙏 selecting my comment that I sent you and that’s what friends are for.👍🇫🇷
Maximilien Robespierre was portrayed by Andrzej Seweryn a Polish actor years ago but the real Maximilien Robespierre and his Robespierrists were defeated and sent to the guillotine years ago.👍🇫🇷
@@Valentina-qx1ul the real Louis Antoine de Saint Just died with the real Maximilien Robespierre and others years ago by the guillotine and I think 🤔 think it’s Augustin Robespierre who is his real brother and I looked up and I studied about French Revolution years ago when I was in a library and I also realized that his sister Charlotte whose real name is Marie is a writer I looked up was the last surviving member of the family who outlived her brothers Maximilien and Augustin escaped and changed her name but she was arrested years ago and was sent to prison before she died in August 1. 1834 and that’s how I studied and remembered about French Revolution years ago and that’s the truth I’m telling you nicely about and thank you 🙏 for replying to me and letting me know I heard you the first time nicely I haven’t forgot yet and my apologies I thought Saint Just was his brother now I remember and I have good 😊 memories Lolatitine.👍🇺🇸💯
@@pierreclinton I thought that Augustin, Maximilien and Charlotte were siblings and that Auguatin died the same way Maximilien did and that Charlotte was caught but was released upon further questioning and died when she was in her sixties. And Saint-Just was not part of the Robespierre faily since he was born like 2 years after the death of Maximiliens mother.
"If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at the same time both virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue. It is less a special principle than a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most pressing needs. It has been said that terror was the mainspring of despotic government. Does your government, then, resemble a despotism? Yes, as the sword which glitters in the hands of liberty's heroes resembles the one with which tyranny's lackeys are armed. Let the despot govern his brutalized subjects by terror; he is right to do this, as a despot. Subdue liberty's enemies by terror, and you will be right, as founders of the Republic. The government of the revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. Is force made only to protect crime? And is it not to strike the heads of the proud that lightning is destined? To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to pardon them is barbarity. The rigor of tyrants has only rigor for a principle; the rigor of the republican government comes from charity." - Maximilien Robespierre
If you're talking about the beginning bit, he was very sick due to being under huge amounts of stress and this was the first time in a month that he had done a speech in the convention
@@ayanjit9196 he had not totally lost control at this point but knew members of the Convention and his CPS were going to turn on him eventually so he thought he could get away with denouncing them in the Convention like he always had done to his enemies
@@EPICDZN was there anyway he would have avoided what happened to him? It seems like the committee would turn on him sooner or later no matter what he did
Louis was drowned out by drumming when he tried to say his last words on the scaffold and was quickly beheaded never knowing what he wanted to say.....
One of the most misunderstood, most villainised people in history. Robespierre could not balance the forces of the poor French and the bourgeoisie who were exploiting them. His downfall was that there was no way to achieve the ideals of the revolution (economic equality, liberty, democracy for all etc.) while also defending a system of private property. By the time of the Thermidorian reaction the poor population of France were exhausted and did not come to his aid as they did a year previously (in May 1793). The poor had lost faith in Robespierre especially after he made concessions to the bourgeoisie. That was the moment the Thermidorians had been waiting for. No longer would they countenance being taxed or have to limit their profits so that the poor might have a more decent life. They turned on Robespierre and thus, he became in THEIR history books, the villain of history.
Another rant from those who know they're doomed to be unsuccessful. A revolution that outlaws private property to defend "economic equality, liberty, democracy for all etc." brings none of those things to the people. It only creates another elite and spreads economic misery evenly to the rest. There is no freedom without free enterprise.
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This must be the biggest uno reverse card in history
Guess Robespierre didn’t know when you make such accusations, you _better_ have the proof to back it up.
@@dude2499 Sounds a lot like an early version of Senator Joe McCarthy.
Arno and Elisé made him drink elixir that made him mad.
This is what happens when atheism runs rampant in society.
It's replaced by total authoritarianism and mass murder.
The biggest is actually from a small brigadier-general... recommended by Antonin, Robespierre's brother. Maximilien warned against the rise of a future emperor.
"Danton's blood is choking You"
Best burn in history.
Seen this film several times in several years. It is amazing.
@@Kelly14UK What's this movie called? I want to check it out
I think someone historically, actually said that
@@RockSmithStudio The french revolution
@@OuwenH101 that is the historical record. Very apt as things go.
Probably the best example of having a taste of your own medicine in a movie...
Not just in a movie tho...
Coming from the same people who applied this medicine with him to the French. What makes Robespierre still respected in France is that he was never an opportunist like Danton, the King's own cousin and all members of the National Convention. The Terror lasted another two years, but was now the "White Terror": anti-Jacobin politicians pursuing the policy against their new opponents.
You reap what you sow.
It’s not just a movie, this happened in real life.
In History, the bastard could not speak in the end, just like the people on his "trials". One of the most poetic justice moments ever.
Robespierre: I have in my hand a brand new list of enemies to be sent to the guillotine and many of you are on this list ! But I'm not going to tell you yet what do you think of that ?
Government: Maybe we should send Robespierre to the guillotine first. All in favor?
Robespierre: Oh Noooooooooooo!
oversimplified reference
In reality he said " All this ( French Revolution) is foreign and atheist plot, this is not time to revile the named but in due course I will" that's in reality what it said. It is recorded by Beilieu , Lefebvre though both were Royalists historians but if Louis Blanc, Sand, Sorell call them the most respected sources so should other people
sacrebleu
His mistake was to come to the session alone with few supporters. If I was him I would storm the session together with my fanatic sans cullote mob revolutionary army and immediately order massacre of my enemy right there without even a court.
@@alijack3523 no you can't, your men would be meat for artillery of the army
Robespierre: *kills a shit ton of innocent folk*
Also Robespierre: noooo don't kill me pwease!! ;-;
Reminds me of Berria.
Same thing. Has hundreds of people killed(many of which were innocent), and raped countless women.
In the end, he begged for his life before being executed.
@@very7962 and to think The Death Of Stalin managed to make his execution humorous.
history always repeats but different time and place
He died screaming 😱
That was because when they removed the cloth from Robespierre's injured jaw. He let out a blood cuddling scream from the pain. @@michelslaura
I love that you can tell he realized he lost complete control over the assembly and made enemies of just about everyone.
This was actually a case of the best defense is a good offence. The men attacking him knew that they were the ones he was going to accuse and execute.
@@LJB103 Pretty much. Sometimes in a siege the best thing to do is ride out and fight rather than hold out.
He would have killed every last one of them, had he carried on. He had lost the plot by this time.
@@lordElpus10lost it? Robespierre never had the plot.
It should also be noted that both the physical and mental health of Robespierre had rapidly deteriorated by the events of Thermidor.
There is serious debate as to his sanity at the time of his final speech.
Yep, the man literally invented his own religion lol
Space Dino The religion of republic and reason.
The guy was a true fanatic. He had little personal ambition expect to serve “the republic”.
@@insouciantFox he served himself while claiming to serve the people, like any tyrant.
@@ignacio4159 He was more altruistic than most tyrants though. He truly believed in the republic and what it stood for.
@@insouciantFox Vive le Roi
There is an error in the execution scene, he was placed facing up, to see the guillotine go down. That's how much they hated him.
I think to see the head of his comrade and the error of his ways is a much harsher punishment.
Wow, that's pretty brutal
There is no evidence of that.
Wow brutal
@@emmanueldidier321there is, go check it on Wikipedia "execution of Maximilian robespierre"
"Let me speak! Let me speak! O President of Assassins, would you give me leave to speak!" -Robespierre, shortly before the motion for his arrest was put forth by the Convention
The dog died as it lived.
By the sword
What a nice translation! It’s really hard to change the words without making it sound strange.
One of Robespierre's nicknames was "The Incorruptible Sea Green" because of the color of suit he wore. He's wearing Blue here.
Odd his wearing orange in most of The paintings i chould find on The internet
Actually it refers to his complexion, he was pale from chronic constipation.
"They must be executed without trial"
"Crowd cheers"
Robespierre: To the guillotine!
Government: no u
Robespierre: OoooooOooooH NoooOooOo!
Oversimplified
It’s surreal, men that changed the course of history
Just one drop and it’s nothing but a body
He pretty much signed his own death warrant by declaring his intent to purge the committee without mentioning names, because at that point he could've meant literally any one of them present.
What was he expecting? By that point he had alienated all of his allies and firmly established himself as an intoletant, uncompromising zealot who handed out death sentences the way Louis XIV handed out party invitations.
Robespierre was the embodiment of the phrase "Fanaticism is the act of doubling your efforts after losing sight of your goal"
Loved the commentary
This reminds me of the scene in The Death of Stalin where Beria does exactly the same thing - says he has the dirt on his fellow ministers and threatens to use it against them without being specific. It's at that point that they know they have to take him out or he'll take them out.
"Passerby, don't grieve at my fate. If I was alive, you'd be dead" (Robespierre Epitaph - Anonymous)
A correct summary of his mentality
Bruh why the hell would Robespierre guillotine 40000 people (most of which did literally nothing) but when he gets guillotined he has a meltdown and acts like a baby
Karma
robespierre was screaming, because henri sanson ordered his assistants to remove the bandages which kept robespierre's injured jaw in place, even being careful. but he was screaming in pain. And a side note, after he was executed, the crowd celebrated for around 15 minutes.
@@Nordicus0114 😂 lolol
He wasn’t the only one who voted to do it
He's paranoid of the enemy of the revolution. So he guillotine all of the suspected of "enemy against the Republic"
Republican France was surrounded by enemies, both within and from abroad. Those executed were enemies of the Republic. A good 40,000 or so dead is a small price to pay for the survival f the Republic against the monarchists and foreigners looking to subvert the government of the people. Large numbers of fifth columnists must be liquidated as part of any revolution. The only unfortunate part was Robespierre falling before he could completely liquidate the enemies of the revolution. As a result, France eventually slipped back to the monarchist camp.
As a Filipino I don't know why I'm always interested in the French Revolution.
Wow i didnt know Darth vader was filipino.
because you also wanted Filiphine Revolution
Then why do you have a dictatorship symbol of darth Vader in your profile? You tyrant!
Dictator … tyrant! The empire is evil you tyrant! Long live the Republic!
@@democracyisnon-negociable3819 From my point of view, the Republic is EVIL!!!
“Hey Robespierre, wanna check out this life insurance policy?”
“I’ll read it later. Just stick it in the basket.”
"Carry On - Don't Lose Your Head" - Charles Hawtrey
I was today years old when I realise that Christopher Lee was playing Samson (executioner) in that movie..!
He actually witnessed the last public guillotining in 1939 (he was 17).
P.S. the bourreau (executioner) was named Sanson.
@@LJB103 Last Public Execution in France was in 1977 !!! Sir Christopher Lee witnessed it !!
@@aleksandarvil5718The last execution by guillotine was in 1977. Eugen Weidmannn's execution in 1939 was the last one done in public.
2:17 *has emotional breakdown*
"demand for names intensifies"
Fun fact- in real life, Robespierre’s body was turned upright on the guillotine so he could see the blade as it was about to cut his neck
Robespierre: “I have me in my hand a brand new list of enemies to be sent to the guillotine. And many of you are on this list. But I’m not gonna tell you who yet. What do you think of that?”
Member: “I… think we should send Robespierre to the guillotine first. All in favour?”
Everyone: 3:19
Robespierre: “OoOoh NoOooOoo!!
There's gonna be a tax for that...🤣🤣🤣
@@taufikjamari7485 😟
The biggest irony is he was right about the danger of contrarevolution. Napoleon destroyed French democracy just few years later. He was arrested but eventually freed.
Napoleon, like Robespierre, was also a Rothschild agent. Both flashed the hidden hand.
He's a leftist trash who wanted to sacrifice 10k to 20k people for the sake of changing france from a monarch to a republic, you can see him crying like the bleeding heart he is after realising he crossed the line!!!!!
Is that democracy, give me monarchy
Al menos hubo democracia ?
The contrarevolution was nothing compared to hell that that accursed swine brought upon france
A justly deserved punishment. How many innocents were killed because of him during the Reign of Terror? And what did he expect, marching into the legislature and announcing he was going to be arresting and executing a bunch of them, and oh, by the way, I won't name them?
I think he thought his status as the "Liberator" of the nation made him untouchable.
I mean at first, his actions are to overthrow the monarchy which are justifiable at first but afterwards he became a crazy slasher and a dictator by just murdering random people who thought are planning to overthrow the revolution which yeah he did deserve it for murdering random people just because he thought are oppressors especially his Allies who are on his side are executed because he(Robespierre) didint like their ideas
@Emmanuel-ms8pr I wouldn't say overthrowing the Monarchy was justifiable either.
He thought he was going to get them to all turn on each other.
When the teacher said back your text with supportive articles, the teacher really meant it.
That was the cleanest swipe I’d ever seen (11:36)
Like how his head hit the right side of the basket there. Never realized it would happen that way, but actually, it had to with the angle of the guillotine blade.
@@billolsen4360 didn’t louis engineer it or come up with the design for the saw blade ?
@@singhatar0912 I've heard that he indeed design the guillotine blade to be at a 45 degree angle to guarantee that the head would always be cut off on the first drop.
@@billolsen4360 In the full miniseries you can see Louis going to his execution, looking at the blade, and raising his eyebrows in acknowledgement
He was bloodless
People where in a celebratory mood as heads were raised to the people. Robespierre, Coulthon and Saint Just.
French Revolution = Open fight of the biggest psychopaths.
The sad thing is that there were some really good people in there trying to improve what was a broken country full of suffering. It's just that in a fight like that where the rules are thrown out, good people stand no chance.
@@vincentbaelde-millar670
Danton moment
Did anyone notice when they removed the corpse of St Just there was no blood spurting from the neck?
*Clean Kill*
You can say that execution by guillotine was....REVOLUTIONARY
Everyone knows Frenchmen don't have blood.
And neither did his feet spasm
What is the title of the movie? I'd like to watch it.
La Revolution Francaise
@@largechips I'd love to watch it!
@@wallflower1852 It's on RUclips with English subtitles!
One of the most satisfying moments of history tbh
"Republics" and "democracy" shown for what it truly is
@@scottanos9981 I hope you know robespierre killed many innocent people. He very well deserved what he got
@@scottanos9981 id rather have that than be ruled by monarchs and nobles tbh
@@DanganYankee Read Hoppe "Democracy, the God that failed"
@@DanganYankeeare you willing to sacrifice innocent lives for it aswell?
Thermidorian Reaction: when something goes so extreme that causes a Conservative Reaction, usually from those who hate extremists from both sides.
Holy shit centrists are scary when they become extremists
The right has historically always acts as a counter reaction to leftist violence.
Does anyone know if they really were throwing Flowers at him like in the movie and if they did? What was the reason/symbolic behind it?
Human politics have always been insanely stupid and insane.
12:54 that was my face when I got the results of my college entrance exams.
Robespierre's actor is one of the most famous Polish actors Andrzej Seweryn! I thought the face was familiar.
Shows up, says he will purge "people" from the convention and then expects everyone to just go along with it without naming who it is
2:23 who is the man being carried
Georges Couthon.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Couthon
Honestly the biggest tragedy today is that so many great ideas that we live by today were set into motion in this revolution, but all most of us remember is this tiny man chopping off people's heads. He killed the men who began the revolution, and killed the men who sought to continue it, and arguably did nothing of note, yet we somehow remember him and not the people who made the revolution matter, like the Marquis De Lafatyette.
True, but it must be noted that alot of the revolution became tainted by his actions. Its hard to make a case for "Fighting for liberty and rights of men" when you basically were a absolute dictator killing people for virtually every juxtaposed reason on the spot.
Many great ideas ?
Terrorism as a form to purge society
Persecution of Christians
Totalitarian state
Mass murder of reactionaries
The heirs of French revolution are the nazis and the communists
Well to be fair to Robespierre he was one of those early revolutionaries, and he was one of the more active members of the assembly and he actively opposed things like the death penalty (ironic) and pushed for the rights of orphans and children born out of wedlock, which had become a problem in French cities like Paris.
Marquis de Lafayette got totally sidelined early on in the Revolution. His only worthwhile contribution to it is giving France the famous national colors. He made a bigger impression upon world history by being in the frontlines in the US during the American Revolution and him being the guiding hand to the establishment of the July monarchy after the 1830 revolution as a compromise...
@user-pq4fc1mc7qIt really depends as to which POV you look it through. The woman was only 14/15 years old when she became Queen of France and a good chunk of the French population - both peasantry, the middle class, and the nobility - hated her on the get go for being (flip notes)... A "dirty foreigner", much worse an Austrian (being the daughter of Maria Theresa I of the Austrian Habsburgs, France's geopolitical nemesis for over 200 years). Her being shy and crowd-averse in the publicity-centric French Court made her unpopular with a lot of aristocrats and the 1788 Diamond Affair - where a female con artist used her name to hoodwink a horny Bishop and successfully sway public opinion on her side despite the Queen being entirely innocent and an actual victim of the swindle by using her poverty as a PR tool - made public perception of her worse. By 1793 when she stood on trial for treason and espionage, one of the evidence used against her was her being Austrian and nothing else.
In hindsight, Marie Antoinette's crime was being an Austrian in a France that hates Austria, being an introvert in an extrovert-centric court, and being ill-prepared to deal with being a queen. She was in a bad place in a bad time and she suffered because of it...
Who were the guys who ran away with one on piggyback? I mean, despite how serious the scene is that one got me.
Robespierre: Antagonizing a Committee of many, many people
The Committee: Pull out pitchforks
Also Robespierre: **surprise pikachu face**
2:12 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 This really got me!
Who was that army officer with Robespierre and company who was drinking?
François Hanriot, commander of the garde nationale.
Guys get the uno reverse card
1:50 Shocked pikachu face
Wonder why the crowd was so silent. You think they'd be cheering each head coming off.
4:29 that voice
y’all forgot how robespierre tried to shoot himself and shot his jaw off instead, then tried to jump to another building like spiderman and instead fell in an open sewer
so they found him with his jaw hanging on the side of his mouth covered in shit, and when he was executed they tied his jaw back on
Does anyone know where I can watch this movie online?
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Its free here
Karma's a bitch. The Royal family should have been spared. They already had the country, the government. At least spare the family.
The Royal Family are the enemy of the people and the state.
history says always kill the wives and children to. if you dont someone always comes back for vengeance.
Cry harder
Robespierre killed his own people he killed Danton and for what
@@KalashVodka175fun fact : robespierre wasn't ready to sign dantons arrest warrant, he did it when there was proof of the French East India liquidation scandal.
Starting at 10:55: Actual footage of Vijaya Gadde being escorted out of Twitter Headquarters
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"The blood of Danton chokes him!"
What timestamp was Robespierre guillotined
11:36
@@ashithrao6767 That was Saint-Just.It never really showed Robespierre being executed.
@@velocity6867 oh
So the world still goes on...
How accurate is this scene?
This guy had it coming, for the amount of bloodshed he had his hands in (whether intentionally or unintentionally).
11:51
He's thinking "Not my finest hour"
So crazy how this resonates with the evens going on today
Some accounts say he was guillotined facing upwards
How tf you just rip your wig off like a hat lmao
What movie is this
Looks like a good film. Might watch later
Funny how in the comments the Americans shout the loudest about Robbespiere and "how evil" he was, forgetting that he actually is a divisive character in France. He was for democracy for all citizens, to abolish the death penalty, and abolish the atlantic slave trade. Ah, and there we have the real reason they hate him, or where the seeds of it lay in their education about the man.
Napoleon (who also is divisive as a character) gets a similar treatment. Even though he reinstated slavery, he also did good and bad. Neither of these men were "pure evil". French revolutionary politics is incredibly interesting :)
After all the period that followed after his death was also a terror period that killed thousands. This time from the conservative point anti left wing point. It would serve those that call Robespierre a monster, to read up on the whole of history. As really it is bloody all around, but interesting to an extreme.
Half assed attempt at ending slavery, and pretending to be protecting democracy (when robby was actually destroying it by acting as a tyrant) does not erase the horrific murders he committed.
At least Napoleon made France great and he was respected almost universally in France. Robespierre only had supporters in Paris, everyone else (yes even the poorest sans culottes) hated and feared his guts because he was murdering his fellow revolutionaries and acting like a power grabbing tyrant in essence a bloodthirsty king
I think we Americans tend to see him wanting to abolish the death penalty but still using it as immensely hypocritical because we have a different outlook on law as something individuals with power or juries can nulify if we personally disagree with it. And then we tend to like Napolean because he killed more of his foes on the field rather than through the courts.
We have more of a "frontier" mentality to put it politely.
The guy who wanted to abolish the death penalty, abolished every penalty except the death penalty.
Americans are incapable of seeing the world outside the ''good-evil'' childish worldview.
@@goatcheezius2399 Or maybe your political mentality is extremely cartoonish, you see the world as a simple division, ''the good'' and the ''bad'' like children. You can't grasp how complex human nature is.
What is the movie ?
I could have sworn that Joseph Mcarthy did the same exact thing in the 1950s.
2 things wrong about his death. 1. He was placed face up so he could see it coming. 2. They botched the execution because of his injury. They actually had to force the blade down to complete the execution. All in all the jerk had it coming. He probably did lose his mind, in all honesty I think that's undisputable he founded a freaking Church to himself for god's sake if that ain't insane I don't know what is, but I think that undercuts how much of a cold blooded monster he was. Insane yes but make no mistake he was a monster that got what he deserved.
He was basically the opposite of George Washington
The anti-George Washington
I just found out Maximilien Robespierre is my 6th cousin 9x removed.
Hey, don't say that. There are also 6th cousins 9× removed of those assembly members too somewhere in the internet
@@ellisreddingsparolehearing5863 LOL
Georges couthon: Oh no I gotta get out of here Soldire carry me
I read about Maximilien Robespierre in the library 📚 on the French Revolution book 📚 years ago and Maximilien Robespierre was played by a actor but the real Maximilien Robespierre whose nickname is the “incorruptible” in the Jacobin Club a courtroom people asked him to reveal their names but he refused to reveal their names and people who helped Maximilien Robespierre including his brother Augustin, Saint Just barricaded the courtroom to keep soldiers from coming in but it didn’t work out and didn’t hold them and the soldiers stormed in the Jacobin Club to defeat Maximilien Robespierre, his brother Augustin, Saint Just and his Robespierrists and whether Robespierre shot himself in the jaw or tried to commit suicide after he, his brother Augustin and Saint Just and his Robespierrists were arrested and Saint Just said “ at least we achieved something” and he, his brother Augustin, Saint Just and 21 of his Robespierrists were carted off to the guillotine and Saint Just went first before Maximilien Robespierre and when Maximilien Robespierre’s turn came his head was toppled into basket 🧺 for those lives he condemned he, his brother Augustin and Saint Just and his Robespierrists were guillotined on July 28, 1794 and the “Reign of Terror” had ended but the statue of Robespierre was never raised in Paris, France 🇫🇷 Robespierre represents respect ✊ pride and the next following days either 82 or 90 Robespierrists who supported Robespierre were guillotined and the Jacobin Club closed and never opened again and that really overthrew Robespierre and others and the “Reign Of Terror” died with Robespierre but the revolution doesn’t and France’s Flag really stand for Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.🇫🇷👍💯
The History TV, I also read the book about the tale of 2 cities London, Uk 🇬🇧 and Paris, France 🇫🇷 and I remember what the real Maximilien Robespierre looked like before he, his brother Saint Just and Couthon and other Robespierrists were guillotined and I also remember the guillotine a device that really cut people’s head off like Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Corday, Jacques Hebert, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Georges Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and the last person who was really guillotined in 1977 in Marseille, France 🇫🇷 is Hamida Djandoubi for kidnapping, murder and torture of his girlfriend and got what he deserved for what he did to her and I don’t think 🤔 the guillotine no longer used and I think 🤔 France 🇫🇷 has retired it’s guillotine years ago and thank you 🙏 selecting my comment that I sent you and that’s what friends are for.👍🇫🇷
Maximilien Robespierre was portrayed by Andrzej Seweryn a Polish actor years ago but the real Maximilien Robespierre and his Robespierrists were defeated and sent to the guillotine years ago.👍🇫🇷
saint just is not his brother
@@Valentina-qx1ul the real Louis Antoine de Saint Just died with the real Maximilien Robespierre and others years ago by the guillotine and I think 🤔 think it’s Augustin Robespierre who is his real brother and I looked up and I studied about French Revolution years ago when I was in a library and I also realized that his sister Charlotte whose real name is Marie is a writer I looked up was the last surviving member of the family who outlived her brothers Maximilien and Augustin escaped and changed her name but she was arrested years ago and was sent to prison before she died in August 1. 1834 and that’s how I studied and remembered about French Revolution years ago and that’s the truth I’m telling you nicely about and thank you 🙏 for replying to me and letting me know I heard you the first time nicely I haven’t forgot yet and my apologies I thought Saint Just was his brother now I remember and I have good 😊 memories Lolatitine.👍🇺🇸💯
@@pierreclinton I thought that Augustin, Maximilien and Charlotte were siblings and that Auguatin died the same way Maximilien did and that Charlotte was caught but was released upon further questioning and died when she was in her sixties. And Saint-Just was not part of the Robespierre faily since he was born like 2 years after the death of Maximiliens mother.
This dude riding piggyback out is my favorite part
That is Georges Couthon, a paralytic member of the Jacobins.
That man was Georges Couthon, a paraplegic.
The lunacy and degeneracy of the French Revolution 12:45
Ser quiser por à prova o caráter de um homem dê lhe Poder.
The acting is pretty bad because I imagine the real version involving both sides being far more unhinged.
IIII think we should send Robespierre to the guillotine first. Allll in favor? ..... OoOoHHh NoOOoOo !
"If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at the same time both virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue. It is less a special principle than a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most pressing needs. It has been said that terror was the mainspring of despotic government. Does your government, then, resemble a despotism? Yes, as the sword which glitters in the hands of liberty's heroes resembles the one with which tyranny's lackeys are armed. Let the despot govern his brutalized subjects by terror; he is right to do this, as a despot. Subdue liberty's enemies by terror, and you will be right, as founders of the Republic. The government of the revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. Is force made only to protect crime? And is it not to strike the heads of the proud that lightning is destined? To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to pardon them is barbarity. The rigor of tyrants has only rigor for a principle; the rigor of the republican government comes from charity."
- Maximilien Robespierre
Why was he crying with the handkerchief?
If you're talking about the beginning bit, he was very sick due to being under huge amounts of stress and this was the first time in a month that he had done a speech in the convention
@@EPICDZN i see.
@@EPICDZN btw why did he do this extremely stupid thing that united everyone against him?
@@ayanjit9196 he had not totally lost control at this point but knew members of the Convention and his CPS were going to turn on him eventually so he thought he could get away with denouncing them in the Convention like he always had done to his enemies
@@EPICDZN was there anyway he would have avoided what happened to him? It seems like the committee would turn on him sooner or later no matter what he did
Pauvre saint juste et Robespierre 😭😭😭😭😭
Louis was executed like a King.
Robespierre was executed like a dog.
Louis was drowned out by drumming when he tried to say his last words on the scaffold and was quickly beheaded never knowing what he wanted to say.....
@@ElectroKinetic1977the song "viva la vide" could be an interpretation of what Louis was about to say
There’s always a counter
aftet all this, Napoleon shows up 5 years later…
I hate robespierre but I got tears at the last guillotine 😢
What s up with the piggy back rides#!! Lol 😆🤣☝️
This is how woke culture will end
Whith the anti-woke as Robespierre
He got his karma
One of the most misunderstood, most villainised people in history. Robespierre could not balance the forces of the poor French and the bourgeoisie who were exploiting them. His downfall was that there was no way to achieve the ideals of the revolution (economic equality, liberty, democracy for all etc.) while also defending a system of private property. By the time of the Thermidorian reaction the poor population of France were exhausted and did not come to his aid as they did a year previously (in May 1793). The poor had lost faith in Robespierre especially after he made concessions to the bourgeoisie. That was the moment the Thermidorians had been waiting for. No longer would they countenance being taxed or have to limit their profits so that the poor might have a more decent life. They turned on Robespierre and thus, he became in THEIR history books, the villain of history.
He was a tyrant who murdered innocent people in the name of helping the poor. Reminds me of another political ideology.
Another rant from those who know they're doomed to be unsuccessful. A revolution that outlaws private property to defend "economic equality, liberty, democracy for all etc." brings none of those things to the people. It only creates another elite and spreads economic misery evenly to the rest. There is no freedom without free enterprise.
ok but how is the fire burning while its raining? 😂
That's sad 😢😢😢
Wasn't he executed facing upwards so he could see the guillotine coming down?
Heads will roll😎😉
Who watching this after the chapter of French society
he was executed FACING the guillotine, meaning upside down how his friend was
Without him they wouldnt have had any tomatos to throw.
What movie is this?
La révolution française les terribles années
Wasn’t he killed face up?
The names! We demand the names!
5:33 Napoleon
Just goes to show how f,,,,led up the whole thing was !!!