The thing I find crazy is that Lafayette survived all of this too. He fought in the American revolution, in the French revolution, he had it not too bad during Napoleon’s reign and he was eventually asked to become king of Belgium when they seceded from the Netherlands in 1830. Safe to say, he lived during some eventful times

Robespierre's terror lasted around 10 months, and roughly 16000 people were guillotined.
10 months / 16000 = roughly 27 minutes.
This video is twice the average time between guillotine executions during the terror.

"Leba kills himself with a pistol and hands it to Robespierre."
How did he do that?

"I've seen this one before"
"What do you mean its brand new?"

Man, the Rome compilation is gonna be like 5 hours long!

Love that Rackam's Robspierre  voice sounds like a Muppet having a psychotic break

An aristocrat, his chef and chief engineer were set to be executed during the French Revolution.

The aristocrat is brought to the guillotine and said "I am not afraid of my mortality. I refuse a blindfold and I wish to be face up so I can look death straight in the eyes!"

The executioner accepted this request, placed the man in the guillotine and pulled the lever... but nothing happened! The blade did not drop! It was declared an act of God and proof of his innocence, and he was released.

The chef is brought to the guillotine and requests to be beheaded face up as well. And again, when the executioner pulled the lever, the blade remained motionless! The chef was released and joined his master.

Finally, the engineer is brought to the executioner. He, too, requests to lie supine. As the executioner is about to pull the lever, the engineer exclaims "OH! I see your problem!"

Gotta say, your Louis XIV and French Revolution vids are some of your best work. They go into the the far lesser known chapters, that are often omitted from typical documentary/history books because they aren't important in the grand scheme of events, but are 'juicy' from a story telling/drama perspective. Learning about Louis XVI people's pleasing and Robspiere's early career really shapes them out as actual people rather than characters.

All are revolutionaries but some are more revolutionary than others.

I'm a simple man. I see stick figure man with tie. I click video. Simple

The French Revolution. The living embodiment of “How can it get worse?”

You know before when you released the videos in parts, it gave me a good idea of the insane swing in what happened during the whole Reign of Terror/Revolution.

But when you release it all as one continuous experience, you kinda get the feeling of just how fast things slipped from 'reasonable demands' to 'an execution every half hour or bust.'

If you put a baguette in a guillotine you get sliced bread.

In an alternate world, Robespierre could have gone down in history as the Washington of the French Revolution, but instead he made a name for himself.

"The people are the enemy of the people" is actually a very profound quote, and in many cases, a true one.

The Austrian POV feels like a crusader kings play through when you’re trying to stop your AI ally from internal combusting.

"All of it."
"All of it?"
"ALL of it."

Whenever I hear people unironically say something like "we need another french revolution", I look at them funny because I'm like 99% confident they don't know anything about the french revolution beyond the king getting guillotined.

The French Revolution was a chaotic event thatr didn't even result in permenant change.  The current republic came about from a much less violent revolution decades later.

10:50 Those are some badass last words

7:42 I never imagined Sniper Island was involved in the French Revolution