Robespierre-Signed Blank Escape Passes

Ian and Barbara pull out forged passes signed by Robespierre, left undated for easy forgery into escape documents. The documents are incriminating evidence of the farmhouse’s role in aiding royalist fugitives, and their discovery accelerates the group’s realization of the danger they’re in. The passes’ official appearance—complete with Robespierre’s signature—underscores the Revolution’s bureaucratic machinery, even as it is subverted by those it seeks to destroy.

Ian and Barbara discover the forged passes signed by Robespierre, their blank names and undated signatures confirming the farmhouse’s role in the royalist escape network. The documents are incriminating evidence, but their presence also reveals the fugitives’ ingenuity in forging identities to survive. The passes become a point of contention, as Rouvray uses them to accuse the group of deception. Their existence underscores the Revolution’s bureaucratic brutality—even forged papers cannot guarantee safety.