The French Revolution: Started with a King, Ended with an Emperor.

@ruialmeida4480

4 жыл бұрын

Meet new boss, same as old boss.

@Sshooter444

4 жыл бұрын

Then back to King again...

@blueberry.milkshakequeen6946

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sshooter444 Then back to Republic..

@PrincipeAleksandrovich

4 жыл бұрын

Keith Dean yes....

@wakawakakilo5164

4 жыл бұрын

Great point

Robespierre is the perfect example of the phrase "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

@alessandrocaboni5882

2 жыл бұрын

Ya, that's perfectly right.

@alessandrocaboni5882

2 жыл бұрын

Martire per la libertà.

@claudiooliveira7856

2 жыл бұрын

He ALWAYS WAS a villain, this guy was a monster!

@quietquitter6103

2 жыл бұрын

That piece of shit was ALWAYS the villain.

@luisportella1760

2 жыл бұрын

Whatever, this is what they want you to see and believe

“You will follow us soon, Robespierre. Your house will be beaten down and salt sowed in the place where it stood.” -Georges Danton

@dvdortiz9031

11 ай бұрын

Prophet!!!

@falconeshield

6 ай бұрын

Danton the saint

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.

@TheMcKenzieHaus

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@overcomerbtbojesus

2 жыл бұрын

Packaging groceries 🤣🤣- but i see what you’re saying

@brucetucker4847

Жыл бұрын

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.

@f1aziz

Жыл бұрын

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.

@julienbencze

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

@murmillo42

3 жыл бұрын

I'm convinced that Mr. Lee was truly immortal and saw everything in history. I'm always hearing that he witnessed this and that.

@fourthaeon9418

2 жыл бұрын

was he ever not old?

@xhagast

2 жыл бұрын

@@fourthaeon9418 I just watched Horror Express, 1973, and he was...aging...

@nothisispatrick4644

2 жыл бұрын

So he played Charles Henri Sanson? Dang thats cool.

@Baskerville22

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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!!

@Emanresuadeen

Жыл бұрын

What did he have to lose at that point? Besides his head, of course.

@anneclaffey2843

Жыл бұрын

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.

@cebonvieuxjack

11 ай бұрын

his jaw had exploded in half, I don't think he was very concerned about maintaining proper legal vocabulary at the time

@user-rv6cx3rz7t

11 ай бұрын

​@@anneclaffey2843poor man? Nah.

@anneclaffey2843

11 ай бұрын

@@user-rv6cx3rz7t I'm very glad to have compassion and not be reduced to making sarky remarks at strangers' posts. You're a piece of work.

Robespierre died from the terror he had started. The blood he shed ended up splashing him.

@gggo1789

3 ай бұрын

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!''.

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.

@Vomaxx1

Жыл бұрын

There is also a story--which may well be apocryphal--that Robespierre was positioned face up, so he could watch the blade fall.

@harrisonmcarthur7816

Жыл бұрын

@@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!

@mattogrosso900

Жыл бұрын

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.

@tropicalgardenvlogs

Жыл бұрын

@@harrisonmcarthur7816 It was a fate he was happy enough to visit on others. I can’t muster a lot of sympathy for him.

@uscdave1124

Жыл бұрын

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.

@altinaykor364

6 ай бұрын

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

@invisible.fatman

3 ай бұрын

A reason not to be a dick.

@Sakurajima_890

15 күн бұрын

First time smiles came back on faces, after a long tragic period of terror!

@ozanareyiz7773

12 күн бұрын

That's not insult. That's carnavalist way of life european culture.

@chumblesthecheese8580

12 күн бұрын

@@ozanareyiz7773 When I want a Turk's opinion on what European culture is, you'll be the first I ask.

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.

@manuelluis5456

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

@manuelluis5456

8 жыл бұрын

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.

@starwarsraul13

6 жыл бұрын

Just like politicians now a days. They care only about their pockets.

@patrickdevries6267

6 жыл бұрын

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

@patrickdevries6267

6 жыл бұрын

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!

@elangelyt7738

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@dvdortiz9031

Жыл бұрын

He expedited justice, kudos for him!

@dvdortiz9031

Жыл бұрын

​@@elangelyt7738 so?

@bentos117

3 ай бұрын

yeah, it all started with renouncing "don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you"

in the times of trouble, the only safe position is a professional executioner

@xhagast

2 жыл бұрын

But I think the inventor WAS executed...

@MsLogjam

2 жыл бұрын

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?

@lancegideondiokno1774

2 жыл бұрын

@@xhagast he was

@xhagast

2 жыл бұрын

@@lancegideondiokno1774 So NO safety.

@lancegideondiokno1774

2 жыл бұрын

@@xhagast in a sense

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.

@lennydale92

Жыл бұрын

Really shows how ruthless and efficient it was.

@brucetucker4847

Жыл бұрын

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.

@kenoliver8913

Жыл бұрын

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.

@charliejdk

Ай бұрын

Such good analysis of a scene that really, really works in a terrible (excellent) way

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.

Damn that first Execution was so fast and "dry" 😂

@LarryOfilms

5 жыл бұрын

yeah felt bad for the guy. didnt even give him a moment for last words or anything.

@alessiodelcastillo1613

5 жыл бұрын

Larry O then again Just hardly gave 40k people last word on their way to the guillotine too

@LarryOfilms

5 жыл бұрын

HighburyAFCSoul true

@michelfrank8157

4 жыл бұрын

It was a "clean" execution

@alessiodelcastillo1613

4 жыл бұрын

@@michelfrank8157 LMAAAAOOO

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.

@helenhoward5346

11 ай бұрын

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.

Robespierre was only 36 years old at the time of his death. But in films he is almost always over 50 years old.

@MajorDenisBloodnok

Жыл бұрын

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...

@yehohanan7738

Жыл бұрын

He is so young

@anneclaffey2843

Жыл бұрын

Robespierre was said to have looked much older than his 36 years owing to ill health and stress.

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."

@AC.198

4 жыл бұрын

Does he says 'un mois nous avon complait quelque chose' ..... "for me, we did something at least" kind of?

@geraudpinchart9923

4 жыл бұрын

@@AC.198 He says 'au moins, nous avons accomplit quelque chose'

@AC.198

4 жыл бұрын

@@geraudpinchart9923 what does thatmeans Gerard? Thanky you by the way

@dosg847

4 жыл бұрын

@@AC.198 that mean "at least we did something"

@c0nstantin86

3 жыл бұрын

Rights of man was written before the nationalists started killing kings and wageing wars

RIP Christopher Lee

@davido3026

3 жыл бұрын

Drakula, very fitting blood thirsty character

Hard to feel bad for the man. Nothing creeps me out more than mob rule through hysteria, and he harnessed it from the start.

@edmonddantes3640

4 жыл бұрын

A lesson for today

@matrimcauthon7937

4 жыл бұрын

Kind of like twitter mobs.

@edmonddantes3640

4 жыл бұрын

@@matrimcauthon7937 And Antifa,

@akirakirawabushi7019

4 жыл бұрын

@@edmonddantes3640 u mispeled trumptards

@akirakirawabushi7019

4 жыл бұрын

@Jack Bran no comlunist in 2020 shithole usa, dumbfuck

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.

@ericmarseille2

2 жыл бұрын

The real Samson was against capital punishment and fired the aide who had smacked Charlotte Corday's Head because he had acted disrespectfully.

@steveshapiro326

2 жыл бұрын

I wish all cruel slave-owners had been tortured in every way they tortured their victims.

@justineflammantrose3430

2 жыл бұрын

@M Vive la France Il faut écrire en Français s'il vous plaît 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵

@justineflammantrose3430

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericmarseille2 Vivre La France Il faut écrire en Français s'il vous plaît, la langue française est une très belle langue enfin 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵😊

@justineflammantrose3430

2 жыл бұрын

@@steveshapiro326 Vive la France Il faut écrire en français La langue française est une très belle langue enfin 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵😊

1:01 that smooth fall, down the stairs. Hilarious!!

@Zen-rw2fz

4 жыл бұрын

Slide*

@Sshooter444

4 жыл бұрын

Hard to walk down stairs when your legs dont work

@gustavoalves6227

4 жыл бұрын

Couthon

@mikem9001

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@rehte8707

3 жыл бұрын

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

The great Christopher Lee playing the executioner Sanson!!

@jamesnicholson3658

2 жыл бұрын

he witnessed an execution using la guillotine I believe, makes sense he would get it right

Robespierre got off to a good start, but he went crazy and completely lost his head.

@aleksandarvil5718

5 ай бұрын

BADUM-TSSSSS 🥁🥁 😂😂😂

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.

@g271029

4 жыл бұрын

Robespierre and Saint Just were.tyrants who murdered innocent people.They deserved to die.

@2msvalkyrie529

2 жыл бұрын

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 " !!

@mario0318

2 жыл бұрын

@@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!

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.

@tomservo5347

8 ай бұрын

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's a lesson we never seem to learn.

@SC-gw8np

5 ай бұрын

@@tomservo5347 No, power reveals one's true character.

I have never seen this. Spectacular!

Saint Just says "au moins nous avons accompli quelque-chose" that means "at least we accomplished something", not "to think I made that"

@freewal

4 жыл бұрын

They made. The declaration of the Human Rights and the Citizens. Something revolutionary for that time.

@ariajonker7733

3 жыл бұрын

Brr💂👑1

@DR3ADER1

Жыл бұрын

@@freewal Yet they publicly executed anyone who dared to criticise their corruption and refusal to accept the rights of the common man.

@altinaykor364

6 ай бұрын

@@freewal hearing the word of HUMAN RIGHTS from mouths of such a men, is like hearing a very dark bad joke

@freewal

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

*tHE WAY HE DRAGS HIMSELF DOWN THE STAIRS I'M-💀**0:59*

@avocadolover7459

4 жыл бұрын

that's a mood

@avocadolover7459

4 жыл бұрын

but seriously that had me wEAK-

@zaptosx4475

4 жыл бұрын

avocado lover true dat

@giuseppetritoni7034

3 жыл бұрын

Couthon crawling away from trouble. Didn't serve him well, though.

"Bloody Robespierre. You will follow me." or rather "Robespierre will follow me; he is dragged down by me." -- Danton

@xhagast

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't he say that what bothered him was to die forty days before Robespierre?

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.

@hughcapetien

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you are describing Bill Gates or Klaus Schwab.

@Android3008

Жыл бұрын

I agree, I've never found anyone else to match his interpretation and it is sadly underrated like him.

@harukrentz435

Жыл бұрын

Dont forget he also tried to become a god 😅

@anneclaffey2843

Жыл бұрын

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.

@BlueStef17

9 ай бұрын

As if only one man could do this during those times... LOL He paid the price for others' crimes.

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...

@brucetucker4847

Жыл бұрын

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?)

@dvdortiz9031

Жыл бұрын

The poo had to be removed fast!!!

4:14 Christopher Lee

@arnoldrivas4590

3 жыл бұрын

Nah that's Ciaran Hinds! :D

@xerxes450

3 жыл бұрын

@@arnoldrivas4590 Nah ; Christopher Lee !

@fahoodie1852

3 жыл бұрын

My favourite french Revolutionary, Clint dokuu

@mr.tobacco1708

3 жыл бұрын

@@fahoodie1852 Or Sarou Le'Man.

the guillotine man.. such a precise instrument.. no bullshitery, no nothing.. straight to business

@dvdortiz9031

Жыл бұрын

45° angle and the blade becomes a razon blade!! Perfect design, slicing from side to side, not choking!!!

@jean-louislalonde6070

9 ай бұрын

Also known as le rasoir national...

4:11 my favorite part of Sanson (the executioner). Looks like he really want to beheaded that guy for so long. 😁

@painiscupcake5433

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@aiman_oofed8186

5 жыл бұрын

Hungry executioner XD XD

@BardockSkywalker

5 жыл бұрын

He Was Like... Get Up Here Ya Bastard... Ya'know What's Coming

@alessiodelcastillo1613

5 жыл бұрын

Who wouldn’t. It’s Robespierre

@michelfrank8157

4 жыл бұрын

@Dave Bronstein Lee at his best

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.

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.

@AbrahamLincoln4

3 жыл бұрын

Pistol whipped like a pig. Which is what the Jacobins basically are. That French Officer knows what's up.

@elangelyt7738

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@altinaykor364

6 ай бұрын

pistol whipped? I didn't notice that! I thought the soldier just hit him

It’s awkward watching people dancing in the streets with no singing or music to accompany them in their celebrations.

Finally he fell what old king feels: being death

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

"to think I made that" nope... Saint Just says "at least, we've accomplished something"

@anneclaffey2843

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Bigmojojo

9 ай бұрын

​@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.

@Stephanlabize

9 ай бұрын

@@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...

@altinaykor364

6 ай бұрын

@@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

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!

@TheFiresloth

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@gotarmadillo

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheFiresloth That may well be!

@gotarmadillo

4 жыл бұрын

@@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?

@davido3026

3 жыл бұрын

Prophet danton foretold his fate!!!

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.

@justineflammantrose3430

2 жыл бұрын

@David Murray Vive la France Il faut écrire en français La langue française est une très belle langue enfin 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵😊

@harukrentz435

2 жыл бұрын

How do you know?

@liananicey5647

2 жыл бұрын

bit sus david...but can confirm..was feeling the same way buddy.

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.

@rolandrothwell4840

4 жыл бұрын

Very well said!

@willsteele793

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@shuaguin5446

4 жыл бұрын

In this category we could put Lenine who was for all his default also a true believer.

@ryanwade7895

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@Sshooter444

4 жыл бұрын

Its it worse to be murdered by a madman, or by one with "good intentions"?

At 2:45, Saint Just actually says: "At least we have accomplished something"

There's lessons to be learned here.

The actor playing Saint-Just is so damn hot!

@user-yc5um2pl5v

7 күн бұрын

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.

El Gran Robespier;saludos desde Avellaneda Argentina

BEAUTIFUL!

Christopher Lee to Robespierre: « You have elected the way of pain ».

The way the sound is done when robinsperre is about to get guillotine is so creepy and sad

@biggawinnacrapsa3870

4 жыл бұрын

Who the fuck is robinsperre?

@tommyodonovan3883

4 жыл бұрын

The mob is a spear sharpened at both ends.

@patrickdevries6267

4 жыл бұрын

@@biggawinnacrapsa3870 Learn history then you know who he is

@wingsfan1450

4 жыл бұрын

He deserved it a million times

@twiddlerat9920

4 жыл бұрын

@@biggawinnacrapsa3870 The guy that was shot through the jaw in the video, and guillotined

@1:00 Couthon is doing the same thing I used to do as a kid for fun!

@steveshapiro326

2 жыл бұрын

Couthon literally could not walk to descend that staircase.

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.

@Eza_yuta

6 ай бұрын

Ahh someone mentioned Tumblr a decade ago. What a memory

3:46 Executioner (Sanson): “Just get your ass up there...”

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".

Robespierre is the epitome of power leading to corruption.

3:38 I love how the children are skipping not even caring that someone's about to be executed

4 жыл бұрын

It was customary for them to witness executions.

@jamesalexander5623

3 жыл бұрын

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!

@AbrahamLincoln4

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesalexander5623 I have lost all faith in humanity now

@baloocallout678

3 жыл бұрын

@@AbrahamLincoln4 Oooor maybe they are just naive about their surroundings.

@lunaamakura7683

3 жыл бұрын

@@baloocallout678 doubt it. Kids are smarter than you think. Crueler even.

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 .

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.

@richardgregory3684

Жыл бұрын

He spoke French, German, Italain and Spanish fluently, and appeared in any European productions.

A Piece of Paper is mere line to hold people. Choices are only decide the ones makes belief.

I bet hearing the crowd applaud him being carried through the street as a prisoner sure sat well with Robespierre

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.

@DR3ADER1

Жыл бұрын

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.

Wounded by his own weapon, and killed by his own instrument of terror. So poetic, it rhymes.

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.

@michaelf7093

4 жыл бұрын

It's a familiar song.

@twiddlerat9920

4 жыл бұрын

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

@rjofusetsudzin8011

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@dvdortiz9031

Жыл бұрын

Supposed by whom?

@dvdortiz9031

Жыл бұрын

​@@twiddlerat9920 loans to America revolution left France in ruins, usa never paid back the loans!!!

Robespierre had a really really bad day

0:39 Karma

@monculsurlacommode3238

9 жыл бұрын

Mathu JaxnRattlehead idiot comment

@mardochee2008

8 жыл бұрын

+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...

@ThisIsMathu

8 жыл бұрын

Mon cul sur la commode Ta gueeeeeeeeeeeule merci

@atelierdelitterature1017

6 жыл бұрын

Mathu Varatharajah iiii

In "La Revolution Francaise: Robespierre's Fall (Part 2)" Robespierre ends up in 2 Parts

@climberly

3 жыл бұрын

ZING!

@bobbyb9258

2 жыл бұрын

Too soon.

@overcomerbtbojesus

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobbyb9258 lol

@overcomerbtbojesus

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣😂

life is pain ...

End of Grand Terror

@mardochee2008

8 жыл бұрын

+Totilla2008 Tylko prawda jest ciekawa End of a Great Man!

@Totilla2008

8 жыл бұрын

mardochee2008 End of Grand Murder. Fanatic murder

@Ruvik92

5 жыл бұрын

@@Totilla2008 ironic that your profile picture is franco you have any idea what he done to Spain

@Totilla2008

5 жыл бұрын

Franco is great men. Last crusader in Europe

@gonzalo8192

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ruvik92 Franco is a spanish hero. Robespierre was a traitor, he deserved it

Sic semper tyranis.

0:15 Me in kindergarten trying to pass the girl that isn’t letting me go on the slide

The translation of Saint Just's last words is incorrect

@titi710

4 жыл бұрын

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

@altinaykor364

5 ай бұрын

no one cares, cause he had a very twisted idea of humanity and had no heart and soul anyway

@gggo1789

3 ай бұрын

The majority of the subtitles in this video are incorrect anyway.

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?

@RichardIII1955

5 жыл бұрын

fred karno I think they were glad to see him go, that’s why they were celebrating and dancing with flowers.

@Android3008

2 жыл бұрын

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

@timmeeyh6523

2 жыл бұрын

Either way, they were entertained!

Super film

Good handclaps on getting that bunch

You want something to take your mind off that pain Robespierre?---Monsieur Major Payne.

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!

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!

@Tara-fq4co

3 жыл бұрын

well

@brucetucker4847

Жыл бұрын

There is now, 10 years after you wrote this comment!

Meanwhile Louis sitting in heaven : Bruh I died for this

Perfect

My favorite part. I think he got what he deserved.

@tommyodonovan3883

4 жыл бұрын

The mob is a double edged sword.

Dude Uncool!

Molto interessante e ben fatto! Dall'Italia

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.

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!

@olivierdastein2604

2 жыл бұрын

@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.

"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...

Very true.

a man looked up from himself so high, and behaved so low when executed

Normal people at 3 am: sleeping~me at 3am: crying over Robespierre’s deadth.

@luccassilva7304

4 жыл бұрын

Robespierre is a trash.

@hi-ho1zo

4 жыл бұрын

Luccas Hubrichzeinen nah,he is not.🥺

@anneclaffey2843

Жыл бұрын

Me too 😢

The people are throwing flowers, but they also seem happy at his execution... are they throwing flowers ironically??

@MsLogjam

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kellyvaters1689

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.)

4:08 the scariest ten seconds I have ever seen on film

A fitting end.

Saint-Just and Robespierre began the Revolution as being against the death penalty. But it was Saint-Just that refused to have a public vote on whether to execute Louis XVI, making sure the king would be sentenced to death.

Saint is very handsome

@tamaratsuha2190

5 жыл бұрын

The actor obviously

@TheFiresloth

4 жыл бұрын

He was known to be in real life. He was only 26 when he died.

@altinaykor364

5 ай бұрын

his actor is, obviously

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.

Just look at the flowers, Robespierre....

What an ironic twist of fate, looks like Supreme Being has a sense of Humor.

@cpt.shmitt7387

4 жыл бұрын

He gets killed by the very tool he used to enforce his ideology.

@joshuagrover795

11 ай бұрын

The National Razor has spoken!

Robespierre, the man who fought for equality, beginning his own despotic terror, approving the killings of innocent imprisoned clergy and nobility citizens, sending everyone who disagreed with him or looked like a royalist to the guillotine, met his end at the guillotine... After his death, France truly became a free Republic... Aaand, then there was Napoleon

@cpt.shmitt7387

5 жыл бұрын

Napoleon rebuilt France, fixed the economy... and then stomped on Europe. If he had just focused on fixing France he probably would have been a hero instead of a villain.

@TomiKaski

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, napoleon was the best thing that could happen to France after the revolution anarchy and chaos

@TomiKaski

5 жыл бұрын

No it was just a comment about how they got rid of a king to get an emperor

@TomiKaski

5 жыл бұрын

*only to get an emperor

@BrorealeK

4 жыл бұрын

@Hornyshark He stabilized France by putting all his political enemies down and kept it stable by looting Europe on an industrialized scale that wouldn't be seen again until the Nazis tried to outdo him. His entire reign was predicated on conquest and imperialism. Bonapartism only looks good if you're the one getting rich off it--for the rest of the world, it was a tragedy. And while France's wars could be construed as being defensive, Napoleon's wars went far beyond anything that had preceded them. You could argue he was simply better at it than anyone else, but that's what happens when you're the first modern warlord. You get blamed for it.

We all know this guy must have watched Oversimplified

you guys know that the old man flipping the Guillotin switch is Christopher Lee?