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1. Sacre Bleu! Zat was (how you say)….interesting.

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   • Nick Rivers:
     “Interesting”

     Deja Vu: “zat is what I thought”

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2. [Myth] 5. The Jacobins installed a “system of terror” in September 1793.

   A contentious statement.

   How so?

   Many historians contest it, pointing out that it wasn’t just the Jacobin deputies in the Convention who voted for terror – it was a policy supported by many deputies.

   So, the Jacobins didn’t install a “system of terror”, they instead worked with other people to install a “system of terror”?

   They passed a series of laws which enabled them to use terror… It was chaotic, ad hoc, and violent certainly, but not a coherent system.

   So, the Jacobins worked with other people to slap together a hodgepodge of terror?

   They saw it as justice – albeit the harsh justice of wartime.

   So, the Jacobins worked with other people to slap together a hodgepodge of terror without knowing what they were doing?

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