Danton

[ dan-tn; French dahn-tawn ]

/ ˈdæn tn; French dɑ̃ˈtɔ̃ /

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noun

Georges Jacques

[zhawrzh zhahk], /ʒɔrʒ ʒɑk/, 1759–94, French Revolutionary leader.

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How to use Danton in a sentence

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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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British Dictionary definitions for Danton

Danton

/ (ˈdæntən, French dɑ̃tɔ̃) /

noun

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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