Tom Holland
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42,875 appearances
168 recordings
9 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard yesterday
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So Carlyle casts it as this kind of immense, unstoppable terror.
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conflagration that consumes all in its path and even its own profits.
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So Saturn devouring its own children, we talked about that in our first episode.
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And also, Dominic, in our first episode, we talked about how for the British and perhaps for the Anglophone world more generally, the terror
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is really what the revolution is all about.
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And it's not a coincidence that Carlyle was a massive influence on Charles Dickens, who said that he'd read it 500 times, Carlyle's book on the French Revolution.
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And so it's his principal source for Tale of Two Cities, which is amazing, the best-selling novel in English.
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That is the novel that's imprinted this idea of the revolution as being equivalent to terror, I think, in the British imagination.
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And this is where our sense of it as
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streams of blood, tumbrils, all of that that we were talking about yesterday comes from.
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And I would say that in Britain, far more than any other European country, the terror is actually seen almost as synonymous with the French Revolution itself.
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So actually, in a lot of European countries, there is an emphasis on the more progressive elements of the revolution.
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system.
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Not just the metric system, but the language of rights and that kind of thing.
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But
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by and large, for the British, it's just mad people chopping each other's heads off.
And do you know the person who magnificently, magnificently summed this up?
I do.
I know what you're
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