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Danton
[ dan-tn; French dahn-tawn ]
noun
- Georges Jacques [zhaw, r, zh zhahk], 1759–94, French Revolutionary leader.
Danton
/ ˈdæntən; dɑ̃tɔ̃ /
noun
- DantonGeorges Jacques17591794MFrenchPOLITICS: revolutionary leaderPOLITICS: statesman Georges Jacques (ʒɔrʒ ʒɑk). 1759–94, French revolutionary leader: a founder member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793) and minister of justice (1792–94). He was overthrown by Robespierre and guillotined
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Robespierre and Danton had now broken off all intimacy with Madame Roland and her friends.
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Danton began to recoil from the gulf opening before him, and wished to return to alliance with the Girondists.
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Danton insisted that they must overlook the massacres, and give at least an implied assent to their necessity.
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It required peculiar boldness, at that hour, to accuse Robespierre and Danton of crime.
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The majority, however, frowned upon Danton with deep reproaches for such an attack upon a lady.
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