The First Terror Of The French Revolution

The First Terror Of The French Revolution | The September Massacres...

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  Premiered Mar 3, 2025  The Rest Is History
Welcome to SEASON THREE of the French Revolution, as we cover The September Massacres, otherwise known as 'The First Terror'.

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‘Still more traitors, still more treason…"

It is 1792 and France has been at war since April; it is not going well. In Paris, the Tuileries Palace has been stormed, and the royal family imprisoned. Meanwhile, tensions are rising between the main political factions of the Revolution, the Girondins and the Montagnard, led by the icy Maximilien Robespierre. The streets of Paris teem with armed young men - the Federes and the Sans-Culottes - responsible for the brutal slaughtering of the Swiss Guard earlier that year. They have arrested and imprisoned thousands of people. It is into this progressively febrile atmosphere of paranoia and fear that terrible news arrives: the Prussians, hungry for vengeance, have taken the fortress of Verdin. Rumours swirl of treason and betrayal from deep within Paris itself, and a new, chilling idea is raised to wash the city of counter revolutionaries once and for all: cleanse the prisons. So it is that on the 2nd of September, a group of Prisoners being escorted from one prison to another is stopped, and methodically hacked to death. The survivors face an impromptu tribunal before receiving the same treatment. Over the next few days, all prisoners across Paris are likewise judged, and many similarly damned and mutilated. A tide of bloodshed is rising, which will soon flood the streets of Paris, taking thousands of lives with it. Who will survive the massacre?

Join Dominic and Tom for the next series of the French Revolution, as they pick up this epic story - one of the most resounding and complex historical events of all time - with arguably the most horrific episode of the whole revolution: the September massacres…

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00:00 – The Blood-Soaked Streets of Paris 
00:24 – A Speech to Save France 
01:07 – Churchill or Danton? 
02:34 – A War Going Horribly Wrong 
06:06 – Paris is Paranoid 
09:40 – Treason at the Front Lines 
12:03 – Don’t Look in the Cellar… 
16:21 – A Death Sentence in Disguise 
19:20 – The First Bloodshed Begins 
20:55 – Silence Before the Slaughter 
25:09 – When Justice Turns to Horror 
30:33 – The Most Famous Victim 
37:40 – A Head on a Pike 
40:04 – Propaganda and Power 
45:09 – Paris Accepts the Massacre 
50:00 – A Glimpse into the Future of Terror 
55:10 – The Enemy is Still Marching 
56:10 – A Final Stand at Valmy 
57:01 – Next Time: The Fall of the Monarchy