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Lawday, David.
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Danton, Georges Jacques, 1759-1794.
Revolutionaries -- France -- Biography.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
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Lawday, David.
Danton, Georges Jacques, 1759-1794.
Revolutionaries -- France -- Biography.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
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The giant of the French Revolution :
Danton
, a life / David Lawday.
by
Lawday, David.
Grove Press, c2009.
Call #:
944.041092 D194L
Subjects
Danton
,
Georges
Jacques
,
1759-1794
.
Revolutionaries -- France -- Biography.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
ISBN:
9780802119339 (hc.) :
0802119336 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Danton
, a life.
Description:
294 p. , [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical reference (p. 265-284) and index.
Contents:
Paris : 15 July 1789 -- Bullfights -- Doing the Palais -- Questions for a bourgeois gentleman -- Jumping upon a tide -- The Cordelier Republic -- Travails of a people's champion -- A wilful woman in the way -- The Revolution at war -- The end of a thousand-year throne -- Courage, patriots! -- Long live the Republic -- The execution of a king -- Flames in Flanders -- In the green room -- Exit moderates -- The Rule of Terror -- Fight to the death -- The cornered bull -- Trial and execution.
Summary:
In the first biography of
Danton
in over forty years, the historian David Lawday reveals the tragic, larger-than-life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the Bastille in 1789 at age twenty-nine and was dead five years later.
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Biographies.
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Adult Nonfiction
944.041092 D194L
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