#So they were 12 dudes who could decree and execute mostly whatever they wanted (under the eye of the National Assembly)

[burnsopale]

Not me after almost a year in the Scarlet Pimpernel fandom and 50K words of fanfiction written only now discovering that the Committee of Public Safety was a group of only twelve men who basically ran the government and were chiefly responsible for making the Terror happen, meaning Chauvelin is one of the most powerful men in France.

Oh.