Episode 20: Thermidor
The Age of Napoleon Podcast
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The Rise of Thermidor
By our standards the revolutionary government was hopelessly, almost laugh ly, corrupt. Robespierre and his allies were not moving with the changing winds which gave the thermodorians an ideological opening. But it's simplistic to look at this as conservatives seizing control of the government to turn it in a more right wing direction.
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