We must first welcome the idea. Establish hour by hour, sometimes minute by minute, the story of this great day of July 27, 1794 which saw the fall of Robespierre. That deserved a tip of the hat. The French Revolution, which every little French person is invited to venerate like the pages of a holy book, is marked first and foremost by a few bloody moments, the famous revolutionary days, the course of which is generally very poorly known. Thermidor 9, July 27, marks the (apparent) end of the Terror. But how did it unfold? Who is behind the fall of Robespierre? And above all, why didn't the people of the suburbs mobilize this time? In short, so many questions that deserve careful examination.
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The British historian Colin Jones set out to study this revolutionary Paris where multiple actors had a role to play, sometimes unexpectedly, during the fall of the main leader of the Committee of Public Safety. His book…
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