What Dominic Sandbrook has said about Committee of Public Safety
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 7, 2026
Dominic Sandbrook, British historian, author and co-host of The Rest Is History, has been quoted on Committee of Public Safety once in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on October 7, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Sandbrook notes that Robespierre and Couthon drafted very few of the committee's surviving orders, the technocrats doing most of the work.
“He only drafted 14 decrees of these 608. And his mate Couton only drafted eight”
The Rest Is History: 712. The Terror: The Fall of Robespierre (Part 6) (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 15:46
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712. The Terror: The Fall of Robespierre (Part 6)The Rest Is History · Oct 7, 2026 · 1 h 37 min
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland recount the summer of 1794, the coup of 9 Thermidor and the execution of Robespierre, concluding their French Revolution series.
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