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Danton

[ dan-tn; French dahn-tawn ]

noun

  1. Georges Jacques [zhaw, r, zh zhahk], 1759–94, French Revolutionary leader.


Danton

/ ˈdæntən; dɑ̃tɔ̃ /

noun

  1. 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.

Danton began to recoil from the gulf opening before him, and wished to return to alliance with the Girondists.

Danton insisted that they must overlook the massacres, and give at least an implied assent to their necessity.

It required peculiar boldness, at that hour, to accuse Robespierre and Danton of crime.

The majority, however, frowned upon Danton with deep reproaches for such an attack upon a lady.

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