La Revolution Francaise: Robespierre's Fall (Part 2)
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- 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.
The French Revolution: Started with a King, Ended with an Emperor.
Meet new boss, same as old boss.
Then back to King again...
@@Sshooter444 Then back to Republic..
Keith Dean yes....
Great point
Fun Fact: by law, to address someone as 'monsieur' or 'mademoiselle' had been made illegal by the time of Robespierre's arrest: you could only say 'citoyen' or 'citoyenne' but when the doctor put the paper bandage around Robespierre's jaw, he was heard to murmur ' Merci, monsieur'. So Robespierre's last words broke one of his laws!!
What did he have to lose at that point? Besides his head, of course.
You think that's funny? Poor man was probably distraught from pain. Ever had a toothache? A mere fraction of what Robespierre went through in his last hours.
his jaw had exploded in half, I don't think he was very concerned about maintaining proper legal vocabulary at the time
@@anneclaffey2843poor man? Nah.
@@슬라바우크라이나헤로 I'm very glad to have compassion and not be reduced to making sarky remarks at strangers' posts. You're a piece of work.
“You will follow us soon, Robespierre. Your house will be beaten down and salt sowed in the place where it stood.” -Georges Danton
Prophet!!!
Danton the saint
TIL the head executioner was played by Christopher Lee, who in his youth witnessed the execution of Eugen Weidmann by guillotine, the last public execution in France. It's very ironic
I'm convinced that Mr. Lee was truly immortal and saw everything in history. I'm always hearing that he witnessed this and that.
was he ever not old?
@@fourthaeon9418 I just watched Horror Express, 1973, and he was...aging...
So he played Charles Henri Sanson? Dang thats cool.
I'd take anything Christopher Lee said with a generous dose of salt. If he lied so outrageously about his "heroic war record", he'd lie about anything.
Robespierre is the perfect example of the phrase "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
Ya, that's perfectly right.
Martire per la libertà.
He ALWAYS WAS a villain, this guy was a monster!
That piece of shit was ALWAYS the villain.
Whatever, this is what they want you to see and believe
It's the complete lack of ceremony with that first decapitation that gets me. No dramatic buildup, no reading you your last something-or-other, no time to dwell on it, just matter-of-factly strapped in, swiveled down into place, and the lever pulled. Done, onto the next. Like they were packaging groceries or something.
Same for me too. I think that’s probably another reason for so many people to just be murdered this way. It was so quick and cold. It’s easy to forget that these were actual human beings.
Packaging groceries 🤣🤣- but i see what you’re saying
It's more merciful that way. No one wants to be forced to stand and look at the instrument of their impending death while some official ceremony drones on and a hostile crowd hurls abuse or celebrates. Just off the cart, up the steps, and get it over with as quickly as possible.
To be fair these guys had been practicing that particular contraption a lot back in those days. No wonder the whole act looks gruesome but also regimented.
This filming of the execution of Saint-Just , one of the main protagonists of the Revolution, is quick and without drama. It enables the film maker to portray a realistic Revolution execution, while in the same time put in value (by dramatizing it) the next execution, of Robespierre. The next and final scene, where the children of Danton and Desmoulins light candles in the Church with the voice-over speech of Danton made during his trial, is the best testimony we could imagine to what all these men and women, poor or rich, moderate or radicals, with their failures and excesses, achieved for mankind. The Revolution indeed ended with the death of Robespierre, but its legacy is timeless.
Robespierre died from the terror he had started. The blood he shed ended up splashing him.
He protested against the terror before later embracing it, if you wanna blame someone blame Billaud-Varenne, the man who stated the famous sentence ''The Terror is at the order of the day!''.
I imagine seeing the masses celebrate his execution would have totally broken Robespierre had he not likely been delusional with pain. He's a classic example of a man becoming so caught up in serving the common good that he forgets what that good is and becomes a monster that ultimately serves only himself.
+Dave Bronstein ... /... , l told you : 'karma' is a bitch. In the end it will bite you back. 20.000 to 40.000 people dead by him and 'his boys' might have a toll.
Saint- Just était un écrivain du tribunal de la sainte-inquisition : il devrait écrire les actes pour l'interrogatoire des accusés . Et sa vraie identité n'a jamais était connu. Peut-être était- il le frére du régent , peut-être le roi ou quelqu'un d'autre ordonné par Louis XlV ou XVl ? On le saura jamais.
Just like politicians now a days. They care only about their pockets.
Sorry but he deserved this all! The king Louis XVI didn't get a fair trial neither as also all his other victims like Danton, Desmoulins
Not true. He ordered the death of Danton, Desmoulins, Heébert, and if the fake trial of Louis XVI he said "for the sake of France Louis must die". But he was that coward to face the king when he went to the guillotine, he said to his maid to close the windows. It is also Robespierre who invented the time of Terror to kill all the opponents of "the revolution"
Robespierre disolved the right of a citizen to go to trial if accused and have a chance to defend himself. So what he did make easier his own execution!
The Law of suspects was passed in the National Convention, where 600 or so people voted on. And the Law of 22 Prairial was passed in the Committee of public safety, where 13 people voted on.
He expedited justice, kudos for him!
@@elangelyt7738 so?
yeah, it all started with renouncing "don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you"
This film (both parts 1 and 2) are very historically accurate. Only a few liberties were taken with a small part of the timeline, obviously for the sake of simplicity and dramatic purposes. For example, in part 1) Robespierre was not denounced by the Convention as a traitor UNTIL the day after he promised to reveal the names of those whom he would order executed. His mistake, as our professors explained, was to make a general threat of releasing names he refused to give and then he retired for the afternoon and went home leaving the deputies both shocked and terrified. Had he only given specific names, he would have brought calm, instead of consternation, fear, and growing anger to the deputies. Instead, he left with St Just to return home allowing the frightened deputies to create a United front of opposition. It was the following morning that Robespierre was overthrown and he and his followers fled to the Hotel de Ville where they attempted unsuccessfully to rally support. Up until the end, they had the allegiance of the Communards under the command of Henriot, who is accurately portrayed as a hard-bitten military officer who was an alcoholic. St Just is well portrayed as the enigmatic, emotionless 26 year old protege of Robespierre who was described by one contemporary writer as a "well chiseled face of cold, hard marble." Also, the end of Robespierre is accurately depicted excepting the director does not show the extreme agony experienced by the fallen leader when the executioner literally ripped the bandage from Robespierre's jaw. One contemporary described the resultant howling as resembling that of a dying, screaming animal that was not silenced until the BLADE fell.
There is also a story--which may well be apocryphal--that Robespierre was positioned face up, so he could watch the blade fall.
@@Vomaxx1 that indeed is a most horrid way to die - to lay strapped down and utterly helpless as you watch the means of your death plunge downward, knowing that you have no power to resist or chance of escape. I had a nightmare like that once upon a time where I couldn't move and was drawn slowly and surely to what I honestly believed was my death... I wouldn't wish the terror I felt during that dream on my worst enemy!
Interesting story. Are you french? I am curious about the way french people remember Robespierre considering his contribution during the period of the revolution and the abolition of the monarchy. I Think the film don't want us to fear or hate Robespierre, but admire him as a human being who played an important role during a crucial period in history. Sain't Just looking at Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen when he talk to him for the last time, tells us that Robespierre wasn't just the horrible dictator of the "Terror regime" but one individual who fought, in first place, against the tirany of the french king. That was his legacy.
@@harrisonmcarthur7816 It was a fate he was happy enough to visit on others. I can’t muster a lot of sympathy for him.
Of all the deaths I've read about in history is sounds like one of the most agonizing way to die anyone has ever experienced. I shudder every time I read the account of it.
Imagine people laughing, singing, dancing, and throwing flowers at you right before you get executed. I can't imagine a greater insult.
Well, that's exactly what you'll get when you pressure the throat of people little too hard, take their hopes away from them and make them be afraid of tomorrow! taking away people's hope is always dangerous, especially when there's also self-unaware manipulation and literally Stockholm syndroming them to yourself. cause once their eyes opened, all your power over them will be gone and they'll surely will do anything to get away from such a terrifying environment and from you
First time smiles came back on faces, after a long tragic period of terror!
That's not insult. That's carnavalist way of life european culture.
@@ozanareyiz7773 When I want a Turk's opinion on what European culture is, you'll be the first I ask.
Ah, ça ira...
in the times of trouble, the only safe position is a professional executioner
But I think the inventor WAS executed...
I once read that almost no one was allowed to marry the daughter of an executioner in those days. Something about the idea of a girl who grew up being fed and clothed by blood money bearing your children or grandchildren must have been creepy. Or maybe they were afraid that a woman whose father killed people might be okay with killing people herself since papan did it all the time?
@@xhagast he was
@@lancegideondiokno1774 So NO safety.
@@xhagast in a sense
Fun fact : Barras, the general who led the assault on Robespierre's headquarter, was also the one who gave Napoleon his first command in Italy. So he doubly ended the revolution.
That first execution is so raw and ruthlessly efficient. From 3:40 when the cart stops and they step off to 4:03 when his head flies is crazy. 23 seconds with no music...just another man to the chop with death as a matter of efficiency.
Really shows how ruthless and efficient it was.
It's more merciful that way, though. The condemned don't have to stand around through drum rolls, reading of charges, speeches, and so on, given all that time to look at the instrument of their death and to think with horror about what's about to happen to them. Just get them up the stairs and get it over with in a few seconds. And the actual death as quick and painless as it was possible to be with the technology of that day. If I had to go, that's how I'd prefer it.
That's not excusing the condemnation of so many people to death for being on the wrong side of politics, of course. But with Robespierre and Saint-Just, what else could be done with them? It was either guillotine them or wait to be guillotined by them, no compromise was possible with such murderous fanatics.
Professional executioners always aim for speed and minimum fuss no matter who they are working for and these ones were very experienced. They knew better than to give time for heroic last words or for desperate struggles.
Such good analysis of a scene that really, really works in a terrible (excellent) way
3:53 How swift, efficient, and emotionless the executors are. Like a machine. Crazy just how callous and ruthless they had become by that point. Mostly on the orders of these four men they are carting up.
You gotta remember, they had been doing this to thousands upon thousands of people by this point... They had become totally desensitized. There were victims who had merely said a politically incorrect joke and lost their heads over it... They had literal death conveyer belts, cart loads of people. They depict that very poignantly earlier in the film, it is quite disturbing at how quickly and easily life was snuffed out for so many innocent people.
Hard to feel bad for the man. Nothing creeps me out more than mob rule through hysteria, and he harnessed it from the start.
A lesson for today
Kind of like twitter mobs.
@@matrimcauthon7937 And Antifa,
@@edmonddantes3640 u mispeled trumptards
@Jack Bran no comlunist in 2020 shithole usa, dumbfuck
Damn that first Execution was so fast and "dry" 😂
yeah felt bad for the guy. didnt even give him a moment for last words or anything.
Larry O then again Just hardly gave 40k people last word on their way to the guillotine too
HighburyAFCSoul true
It was a "clean" execution
@@michelfrank8157 LMAAAAOOO
Robespierre was only 36 years old at the time of his death. But in films he is almost always over 50 years old.
Here, Robespierre is played by the great Franco Polish actor Andrzej Seweryn who was 43 years old at the time, so not so older than his model...
He is so young
Robespierre was said to have looked much older than his 36 years owing to ill health and stress.
People in the past era looked way much older than their actual age. Lack of proper healthcare, lack of proper sanitation, lack of nutritional food, lack of cosmetique/facial treatment. Actually you dont need to go back 300 years ago just watch the videos of high school kids from 90s, they all looked like they were in mid 20s.
Good ole Louis Antoine de Saint-Just. At the moment before his execution, he looked over at the declaration of the rights of Man and said, "At least we did that."
Does he says 'un mois nous avon complait quelque chose' ..... "for me, we did something at least" kind of?
@@AC.198 He says 'au moins, nous avons accomplit quelque chose'
@@geraudpinchart9923 what does thatmeans Gerard? Thanky you by the way
@@AC.198 that mean "at least we did something"
Rights of man was written before the nationalists started killing kings and wageing wars
I have read the story of those times more than once, as detailed by more than one author, and a realistic dramatization like this still has the power to move, and even shock. Homo homini lupus.
Robespierre and Saint Just were.tyrants who murdered innocent people.They deserved to die.
No.! Robespierre was right.
In a revolution : Pity is treason.
All those complaining about The Terror - the real Terror was imposed on the poor people of France for hundreds of years by
Church and Aristocracy.
Robespierre was responsible for
ending that ! He could not afford
to feel " pity " !!
@@2msvalkyrie529 are you stating your support for State-sanctioned terror as official policy to achieve liberty, equality, and fraternity for the people? Because that is one very slippery slope to allow a few individuals create such an authoritative weapon of social control capable of eliminating anybody you want dead with such minimal almost nonexistent checks of power. You've one Tremendously bold position!
1:01 that smooth fall, down the stairs. Hilarious!!
Slide*
Hard to walk down stairs when your legs dont work
Couthon
Yes. He should have realised there was no escape. When Robespierre fell, he would be easily found, and he had a date with Madame Guillotine.
I believe in real life when the soldiers entered the building he was found as a bloody mess in debilitating pain at the base of the stairs, tipped out of his wheelchair somehow
Saint Just says "au moins nous avons accompli quelque-chose" that means "at least we accomplished something", not "to think I made that"
They made. The declaration of the Human Rights and the Citizens. Something revolutionary for that time.
Brr💂👑1
@@freewal Yet they publicly executed anyone who dared to criticise their corruption and refusal to accept the rights of the common man.
@@freewal hearing the word of HUMAN RIGHTS from mouths of such a men, is like hearing a very dark bad joke
@@altinaykor364 like it or hate it, it's a fact. You have to thank them if you don't come from a rich privelege family. The world you know exist thanks to them.
It was nice to see M Sanson's face and hand gesture as he summoned Robespierre to the scaffold. The look of suppressed satisfaction at seeing a depraved sanctimonious humbug who had thousands killed meet the same fate he had inflicted on others.
The real Samson was against capital punishment and fired the aide who had smacked Charlotte Corday's Head because he had acted disrespectfully.
I wish all cruel slave-owners had been tortured in every way they tortured their victims.
@M
Vive la France
Il faut écrire en Français s'il vous plaît 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵
@@ericmarseille2
Vivre La France
Il faut écrire en Français s'il vous plaît, la langue française est une très belle langue enfin 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵😊
@@steveshapiro326
Vive la France
Il faut écrire en français
La langue française est une très belle langue enfin 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵😊
Robespierre got off to a good start, but he went crazy and completely lost his head.
BADUM-TSSSSS 🥁🥁
😂😂😂
4:11 my favorite part of Sanson (the executioner). Looks like he really want to beheaded that guy for so long. 😁
Not to mention the way he pushes Saint Just at 03:47. Lee does quite a bit of subtle acting through the movie just with his looks and mannerism. It's like he represents the soul of the people. Starts out fairly optimistic, but then more and more disillusioned, particularly at Lucille's execution, before getting fed up in the end.
Hungry executioner XD XD
He Was Like... Get Up Here Ya Bastard... Ya'know What's Coming
Who wouldn’t. It’s Robespierre
@Dave Bronstein Lee at his best
I have never seen this. Spectacular!
I love that someone who achieved so much evil with his rotten tongue ended up speechless by his own hand and therefore unable to defend himself before his own kangaroo court.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's a lesson we never seem to learn.
@@tomservo5347 No, power reveals one's true character.
Andrzej Seweryn is just a top notch actor. His interpretation of Robespierre is incredible. Down to the smallest detail, he is painting such an interesting portrait. And the way he is making him come to life. I can literally feel his pain. Although I hate seeing him suffer, of any of those men who were executed (Danton, Desmoulins, Louis Capet and the rest) he actually deserved it. His fall is just so tragic and utterly pathetic, such a huge contrast to how he was living before. He is just completely disgraced. There couldn't have been a worse end for him.
He just lost touch of reality obsessing over "virtue", demanding perfect adherence to the ideals (his ideals), from imperfect human beings, just an impossible expectation. There have been many like him after his time. Men who value their idea of utopia for mankind, higher than the actual mankind itself. Killing countless of people just for being in the way of the realisation of their principles.
Sounds like you are describing Bill Gates or Klaus Schwab.
I agree, I've never found anyone else to match his interpretation and it is sadly underrated like him.
Dont forget he also tried to become a god 😅
Sounds like Jesus of Nazareth to me, another rebel who came to a bad end but unlike Robespierre his story was written by what the English poet John Keats called "the pious frauds of religion." And I don't think Robespieŕre deserved the end he met. Remember, most of what we know about Robespierre' last days were written by his enemies, the pusilanimous Thermidoreans. The end of England's Richard III was similar 😳 Basically, a posthumousl hatchet job by the survivors.
As if only one man could do this during those times... LOL He paid the price for others' crimes.
RIP Christopher Lee
Drakula, very fitting blood thirsty character
The great Christopher Lee playing the executioner Sanson!!
he witnessed an execution using la guillotine I believe, makes sense he would get it right
*tHE WAY HE DRAGS HIMSELF DOWN THE STAIRS I'M-💀**0:59*
that's a mood
but seriously that had me wEAK-
avocado lover true dat
Couthon crawling away from trouble. Didn't serve him well, though.
i always laugh at that scene, funny
It’s awkward watching people dancing in the streets with no singing or music to accompany them in their celebrations.
the guillotine man.. such a precise instrument.. no bullshitery, no nothing.. straight to business
45° angle and the blade becomes a razon blade!!
Perfect design, slicing from side to side, not choking!!!
Also known as le rasoir national...
When it comes to Saint-Just being captured it looked like he was charging in to fight with his bare hands but was pistol whipped.
Pistol whipped like a pig. Which is what the Jacobins basically are. That French Officer knows what's up.
See. In reality he stay still during the whole embroil. He never reached for a gun or tried to fight. That's why is important to read and not get history info from movies.
pistol whipped? I didn't notice that! I thought the soldier just hit him
It was very interesting. After the beheading there was head raising. That is what happened to Danton when he said I want you to showeth my head to the people for it is worth showing. That is what Sanson did who was portrayed by Christopher Lee. Then the said Viva la justice, Long live the Republic. Head shown to the people.
"Bloody Robespierre. You will follow me."
or rather
"Robespierre will follow me; he is dragged down by me."
-- Danton
Didn't he say that what bothered him was to die forty days before Robespierre?
I like this moment at 2:36 when Saint-Just, as he knew it was over for him and Robespierre, looks at the Human Rights Declaration, as if he felt the need to quickly grasp what was achieved before leaving the show. And the English subtitle is a disaster. He says:" At least, we accomplished something", and not "To think I made that".
The actor playing Saint-Just is so damn hot!
Yes, steals every scene he's in. Except maybe the fall of Robbie. An eye magnet, simple as that. As a straight as an arrow guy, he's really top-notch in looks department.
When the head is severed like that, there is an immense effusion of blood that lasts for about ten to fifteen seconds, then it drops to a steady ooze as the veins and arteries empty. Didn't see any of that.
@David Murray
Vive la France
Il faut écrire en français
La langue française est une très belle langue enfin 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵😊
How do you know?
bit sus david...but can confirm..was feeling the same way buddy.
The way the executioner's assistants remove the body suggests that the director of the film has not even hacked a chicken in his life. Because otherwise he would have known that blood was spurting from the severed arteries like a fountain...
Only for a couple of seconds. There's no arterial pressure in the dead. (I've never hacked a chicken, but I have hunted. Maybe chickens' circulatory systems stay active longer than mammals' after brain death?)
The poo had to be removed fast!!!
@@brucetucker4847You are correct.
4:14 Christopher Lee
Nah that's Ciaran Hinds! :D
@@arnoldrivas4590 Nah ; Christopher Lee !
My favourite french Revolutionary, Clint dokuu
@@fahoodie1852 Or Sarou Le'Man.
At 2:45, Saint Just actually says: "At least we have accomplished something"
Christopher Lee ( mainly known as the Hammer Horror poster boy, and Sauron) who saw the last public execution in France when he was young
,playing Charles Henri Sanson the public executioner of Revolutionary Paris! You couldn't make it up.
He spoke French, German, Italain and Spanish fluently, and appeared in any European productions.
The translation of Saint Just's last words is incorrect
yes it is actually : "At least, we accomplished/achieved something" or "We dealt with something, it's least we could do". Regards from a french guy
no one cares, cause he had a very twisted idea of humanity and had no heart and soul anyway
The majority of the subtitles in this video are incorrect anyway.
The way the sound is done when robinsperre is about to get guillotine is so creepy and sad
Who the fuck is robinsperre?
The mob is a spear sharpened at both ends.
@@biggawinnacrapsa3870 Learn history then you know who he is
He deserved it a million times
@@biggawinnacrapsa3870 The guy that was shot through the jaw in the video, and guillotined
Yes, Robespierre's execution is more moving than anything I have ever read .. I still think he's a whacko, but now, I do understand those who think that he wasn't. Thank you for that. Sincerely! Best of Luck!
He became crazy, but I think he stayed honest and well meaning all the way to his death. It's the risk when you're actually given the power to change the world, you forget the price.
@@TheFiresloth That may well be!
@@TheFiresloth On second thought, maybe the mistake was, that he really didn't have the power. He thought he did, but only made the Restoration that much more complete. His mistake was hubris. Achilles does that in the Iliad, when he drags Hector's body around Troy. Prince Arjuna contemplates this same thing but the divine Krishna tells him to just fight without thought about the outcome, which Krishna has already decided. Had Robespierre taken Krishna's advice, he might have stopped short of mass murder?
Prophet danton foretold his fate!!!
"to think I made that"
nope... Saint Just says "at least, we've accomplished something"
Absolutely 💯 And didn't they achieve something? The world as we know it wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for the French Revolution.
@anneclaffey2843 no they didn't. Once the revolution was over, Napoleon took over and restore the monarchy but with himself wearing the crown. Then when he was defeated Europe for the most part went back to what it was before. Sure the Fench got rid of the monarchy again but not only keep their Empire, they grew it. It wasn't until WW1 that started the death of monarchy in Europe and WW2 pretty much killed it. With some exceptions, of course.
@@Bigmojojo dude, history isn't a straight line.
The declaration of human rights is a massive achievement IN SPITE of the failure that ultimately was the french revolution. That's the WHOLE point of Saint Just's comment: "we totally bottled it but this makes it all worth it"
I don't know why they went for that weird translation instead...
@@Stephanlabize French revolution did no shit, but to just doing some crazy things during the revolution and Napoleonic wars which made them pariah throughout Europe for years. WW1 changed everything and need I remind you that not all countries looked up to French revolution's barbaric ways and instead said goodbye to their monarchy while still being on good terms with them and allowing them to have a normal life! well, that fact that not even republic has been a satisfaction for the people and they're finding new reasons to hate them as well, these days, is another story!
but over all, no one took French revolution as their example for their ways and future and didn't wish to be like them and for the rightful reasons
Finally he fell what old king feels: being death
Robespierre is a fascinating case among the "dictators who killed lots of people for great ideals" list. Unlike Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot, all known for their ruthless slefishness and backstabbing, Robespierre seemed to be genuine in his devotion to the Republic, never actually taking all the power from the convention nor giving up on some of his less popular conviction, like abolition of slavery. He killed tens of thousands by pure faith.
Very well said!
I thought pol pot was a true believer but someone’s mind can be hard to discern. Another point might be that the major difference between Max and Mao and Stalin is that mao and Stalin just lived longer.
In this category we could put Lenine who was for all his default also a true believer.
A tragedy all the more so as he fell into one of the worst logic fallacies of them all self righteousness and he couldn’t see out of it.
Its it worse to be murdered by a madman, or by one with "good intentions"?
Hi there! I'm working on subbing the entire movie this summer, but as of right now, there is no French version available with subtitles. Sorry!
well
There is now, 10 years after you wrote this comment!
3:38 I love how the children are skipping not even caring that someone's about to be executed
It was customary for them to witness executions.
There are real photographs of Kids from just 80 years ago smiling and laughing at Lynchings in the South! ... Not at all hard to find if you care to look!
@@jamesalexander5623 I have lost all faith in humanity now
@@AbrahamLincoln4 Oooor maybe they are just naive about their surroundings.
@@baloocallout678 doubt it. Kids are smarter than you think. Crueler even.
@1:00 Couthon is doing the same thing I used to do as a kid for fun!
Couthon literally could not walk to descend that staircase.
Robespierre deserved his fate more than his predecessor. Louis XVI had his flaws and most can be attributed to being born removed from the common man. Robespierre, however, was supposed to be their champion and ultimately betrayed everything to stay in power.
It's a familiar song.
It wasnt even louis' fault really, France was broke because of his predeccessors, A natural famine came along, And he was born into royalty, Its not like he was able to experience the peasant life
@@twiddlerat9920 "Louis problem was that he reliedo n people who did not take public opinion into mind. Also he lived too much in the past and future and werent able to concntrate on problem in present.
Supposed by whom?
@@twiddlerat9920 loans to America revolution left France in ruins, usa never paid back the loans!!!
Wounded by his own weapon, and killed by his own instrument of terror.
So poetic, it rhymes.
In "La Revolution Francaise: Robespierre's Fall (Part 2)" Robespierre ends up in 2 Parts
ZING!
Too soon.
@@bobbyb9258 lol
🤣🤣😂
3:46 Executioner (Sanson): “Just get your ass up there...”
RobesP: I have here a list of people to be sent to the guillotine. And many of YOU are on that list. What are you gonna do about it?
Everyone: I think we should sent Robespierre to the guillotine first. All in favor? (Raises hands)
RobesP: D'ohhh noooo!
@Matthew Neddeau More or less, yes. Coming to the convention to say that many of its members were traitors (who of course would end up executed) and then refusing to give the names of the people he accused, letting everybody think that he might be on the list was one of the stupidest move in the history of politics, I think.
At the part when Saint-Juste looks at the Declaration des droits de l'homme it sounds to me like he says "Au moins, nous avons accompli quelquechose."
But whatever, I like the meaning of your translation better anyway. I am a fan of your tumblr btw.
Ahh someone mentioned Tumblr a decade ago. What a memory
There's lessons to be learned here.
At 2:44, the subtitles are incorrect. Saint-Just is saying "Au moins, nous avons accompli quelque chose..." which translates to "At least we've accomplished something..."
Robespierre is the epitome of power leading to corruption.
Christopher Lee to Robespierre: « You have elected the way of pain ».
The people are throwing flowers, but they also seem happy at his execution... are they throwing flowers ironically??
I expect they were throwing them in celebration at the end of his tyranny. They probably threw flowers at the ends of WWI and WWII.
@@MsLogjam Public executions were historically often an entertainment to those who attended, regardless of the method. It was not uncommon for families to picnic whilst watching a hanging. It wasn't until the early 20th century that capital punishments were removed from public view (at least in the UK and the Commonwealth.)
This is a great series! All of the execution scenes in this great film, were done one after another and edited wonderfully into the movie. In a interview with Christopher Lee, (i always thought he was incredibly handsome) said that in his youth he saw a live execution by guillotine which is chilling. The tradition of the beheading was to hold the head to the populace which was common, not only to the crowd to prove the condemned was executed but to possibly show the still living head to show the condemned of their last seconds of life. This practice goes way back centuries, they knew even then that there is still life (for a few moments) after death. UGH! lol
4:10 a terrifying glance at state violence. Damn if I saw this efficient system of state murder in real life, I’d freeze in fear...especially if it was me who’s next for the chopping block!
El Gran Robespier;saludos desde Avellaneda Argentina
0:39 Karma
Mathu JaxnRattlehead idiot comment
+Mon cul sur la commode Tous ceux qui parlent de karma devraient penser que si le karma existe, des gens comme Jésus, MArtin Luther King ou Gandhi n'auraient jamais fini comme ils ont fini...le karma n'existe pas car le monde est absurde et qu'il est sous l'empire du malin jusqu'à la fin des temps, seule la persévérance envers et contre tout des justes leur assure le salut, naturellement si Dieu existe, sinon rien n'a de sens et il vaut mieux se tirer une balle dans la tête...
Mon cul sur la commode Ta gueeeeeeeeeeeule merci
Mathu Varatharajah iiii
I bet hearing the crowd applaud him being carried through the street as a prisoner sure sat well with Robespierre
End of Grand Terror
+Totilla2008 Tylko prawda jest ciekawa End of a Great Man!
mardochee2008 End of Grand Murder. Fanatic murder
@@Totilla2008 ironic that your profile picture is franco you have any idea what he done to Spain
Franco is great men. Last crusader in Europe
@@Ruvik92 Franco is a spanish hero. Robespierre was a traitor, he deserved it
Who were the men on the committee and in the assembly who opposed him?
Robespierre - A true example of a enlightened genius turned bloodthirsty and paraboid monster. He may have abolished slavery but at what cost? Besides all the French lives he extinguished, that is.
Robespierre was never a genius, he was always and I mean ALWAYS a corrupt, narcissistic cunt just like Marie Antoinette. He was also a massive coward and an idiot who refused to back any of his claims with any evidence because doing so would implicate HIMSELF in the list of "enemies of the revolution". His downfall was not only deserved, but expected when it comes to weak men who betray and stifle those who dare to express their freedom of speech to criticise all that is wrong with the ruling state.
Was he not placed face UP because of the injury to his jaw and neck ?
Il ne faut pas discuter avec des émeutiers.
Il convient de tirer , sans sommation bien sûr .
Lei do retôrno :Maximilian Robespierre recebeu a fatura do que fez com os semelhantes ... Quem planta crueldade,colhe maldade .Assim outros ao longo da Historia .
Robespierre had a really really bad day
life is pain ...
Why are the people throwing flowers instead of rotten food?
+1987AnimeBoy Why indeed? I thought he was hated? Think.
1987AnimeBoy Those flowers were thrown to celebrate his death.
1987AnimeBoy It does seem particularly French..
Who was the unfortunate fellow that had to be carried around that was also executed? Was that something just thrown into the production, or was it historically correct?
It was Couthon. He had a spinal issue due to sickness (according to himself, a DST) and lost use of his legs.
My favorite part. I think he got what he deserved.
The mob is a double edged sword.
I have never understood why people who have killed a lot of other folks being reluctant when it became their turn.
0:15
Me in kindergarten trying to pass the girl that isn’t letting me go on the slide
Is the executioner in the top hat Christopher Lee? It looks very much like him. He appeared in many European films because he was fluent in German, Spanish, Italian and French.
That's him. Fun fact is that as a teenager he was in the crowd during France's last public execution by the Guillotine. He didn't watch but heard the sounds. During an interview he said that haunted him ever since.
These mistranslations are so awkward
You want something to take your mind off that pain Robespierre?---Monsieur Major Payne.
Sic semper tyranis.
Did they really turn him upward when they took his head off?
Dude
Uncool!
There was a food shortage thus the PPL throwing vegetables on him 😂
it was flowers
Who would thought. The man outlived his own mouth.
you guys know that the old man flipping the Guillotin switch is Christopher Lee?
Danton murio en abril en la guillotina,Robespierrre en junio y Saint Just en julio,no murieron juntos ni siquiera el mismo mes.
Y?
his jaw was hanging by basically just a bit of muscle when he got guillotined. i can only imagine how much pain he was in.
It's said when the bandage was ripped off on the platform he screamed in pain until the end.
Ding-dong, the witch is dead
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Gregoryt700 Oh yeah then tell me what happened to France? What happened when the working class lost control of the republic? When the San culottes the sons and daughters of the revolution were betrayed by the filthy liberal girondist scum portrayed here.
The removal of price controls, the COMPLETE destabilization and near destruction of France at the hands of incompetent retards, and then guess what? You got another Napoleon figure, Napoleon himself LMAO
And That would be neo liberal retard thatcher who would fit the description of dead witch.
@@beepboop1044 "working class lost control of the republic" LMAO
They never had it in the first place, it was chaos and the dumbfuckery of Robbie showed that it was never going to get better. Rest in piss, Robespierre.
@@beepboop1044 Working class should not have control over anything because by large working-class lacks enough education and knowledge of statecraft to control state properly.
@@michalsoukup1021 Well, this "education and knowledge" of yours seems to be just good excuse to rule working class people and benefit for their work..
Who is the guy who has to be carried around ?
Couthon.
Great stuff crookedsin. Many thanks for the upload.
One thing. Why the flowers at Robespierre's execution? Was the crowd showing support or were they glad to see him go?
fred karno I think they were glad to see him go, that’s why they were celebrating and dancing with flowers.
That's the thing I like about this interpretation of his death, you're left with an ambiguous feeling about what you're witnessing. Very clever on the part of the director
Either way, they were entertained!
The French Revolution, started the reign of King Louis XVI until the end of the Reign of Terror. Then shifting back to the monarchy which was Napoleon Bonaparte's reign as Emperor.
"You, who are passing by, don't mourn my death. If I was still alive, you would be dead". Here's the epitaph an anonymous person wrote the for this criminal...
4:08 the scariest ten seconds I have ever seen on film
BEAUTIFUL!
"Roberspiere la sangre de Danton te ahoga "...