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    Georges Jacques Danton (French: [ʒɔʁʒ dɑ̃tɔ̃]; 26 October 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a leading figure in the French Revolution. A modest and unknown lawyer...
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    Danton (1828–1897) who married Louis Menuel, and they have descendants to this day from their son Georges-André Menuel (1852–1906); François-Georges Danton...
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  • Georges Danton (1759–1794) was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution. Danton may also refer to: Danton (name) Danton Township,...
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  • Danton (French pronunciation: [dɑ̃tɔ̃]) is a 1983 French-language film depicting the last weeks of Georges Danton, one of the leaders of the French Revolution...
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    follows the story of Georges Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, during the lull between the first and second terrors. Georges Danton created the office...
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    Dantonists: right-wing of The Mountain. They are named after their leader Georges Danton, a cofounder of the Cordeliers Club and from April until July 1793 the...
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    fellow Revolutionists including considerably influential figures Georges Jacques Danton and Jacques Pierre Brissot. The Mountain was composed mainly of...
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    September Massacres (category Georges Danton)
    Champs de Mars. On 2 September, around 1:00 pm, Minister of Justice Georges Danton delivered a speech in the assembly, stating: "We ask that anyone refusing...
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  • Indulgents was a political faction formed around 1793 and centered around Georges Danton. During the French Revolution, what was previously referred to as modérantisme...
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  • La Révolution française (film) (category Films about Georges Danton)
    troops who would attack them. When Desmoulins' friend and colleague Georges Danton hears the news and then learns of troops already attacking citizens...
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    of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Georges Danton, who were the leading figures in the French Revolution. A lawyer by...
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    Ray Danton (born Raymond Caplan; September 19, 1931 – February 11, 1992) was a radio, film, stage, and television actor, director, and producer whose most...
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    The Citras (also known as Dantonists or Indulgents), formed around Georges Danton as well as the indulgents members of the Cordeliers Club, including...
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    Desmoulins. She was executed eight days after Camille Desmoulins and Georges Danton, accused of conspiring to free her husband and involvement in counter-revolutionary...
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    sanctuary where liberty has not been violated". Under the leadership of Georges Danton, this district had played a significant role in the Storming of the...
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  • Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton during the French Revolution, particularly in the period leading up to Danton's execution. Przybyszewska wrote...
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    huge admirer of Stoppard's work." In 2010, Stephens appeared as Georges Danton in Danton's Death. The play was another debut for Stephens, this time at London's...
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  • A Place of Greater Safety (category Works about Georges Danton)
    concerns the events of the French Revolution, focusing on the lives of Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Maximilien Robespierre from their childhood...
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    Robespierre accused Georges Danton in the Jacobin Club of "too often showing his vices and not his virtue". Camille Desmoulins defended Danton and warned Robespierre...
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  • Napoléon (1927 film) (category Cultural depictions of Georges Danton)
    hundreds of members wait for a meeting to begin. The leaders of the group, Georges Danton (Alexandre Koubitzky), Jean-Paul Marat (Antonin Artaud) and Maximilien...
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    Hope Diamond (category Georges Danton)
    French Crown Jewels was in fact engineered by the revolutionary leader Georges Danton as part of a plan to bribe an opposing military commander, Duke Karl...
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    two-part historical film La Révolution française, playing the role of Georges Danton. He has also appeared as King Nebuchadnezzar II in 1998, in Time Life's...
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    war. Dantons Tod was adapted from Georg Büchner's play by von Einem and his teacher, composer Boris Blacher. The protagonist is Georges Danton, a leader...
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    During and after the 10 August 1792 insurrection, he worked alongside Georges Danton, one of the organizers and leading figures of this rising and, on 2...
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    seeing." ("Tu montreras ma tête au peuple. Elle en vaut la peine.") — Georges Danton, leading figure in the French Revolution (5 April 1794), prior to execution...
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    leading historical and fictitious figures of the Western world including Georges Danton, Joseph Stalin, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Cyrano...
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    lawyer and a major figure in the French Revolution. A close associate of Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre, he was one of the most militant members...
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    Safety was installed on the proposal of Maximin Isnard, supported by Georges Danton. The Committee was composed of nine deputies from the Plaine and the...
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    Girondins led by Brissot, and radical Montagnards, headed by Robespierre, Georges Danton and Jean-Paul Marat. While loyalties constantly shifted, voting patterns...
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    Revolution. Her 1929 play The Danton Case, which examines the conflict between Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton, is considered to be one of the...
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