Danton
Georges Jacques [zhawrzh zhahk], /ʒɔrʒ ʒɑk/, 1759–94, French Revolutionary leader.
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Robespierre and Danton had now broken off all intimacy with Madame Roland and her friends.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottDanton began to recoil from the gulf opening before him, and wished to return to alliance with the Girondists.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottDanton insisted that they must overlook the massacres, and give at least an implied assent to their necessity.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottIt required peculiar boldness, at that hour, to accuse Robespierre and Danton of crime.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
The majority, however, frowned upon Danton with deep reproaches for such an attack upon a lady.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for Danton
/ (ˈdæntən, French dɑ̃tɔ̃) /
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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