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The giant of the French Revolution : Danton, a life / David Lawday.

by Lawday, David.

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Grove Press, c2009.

944.041092 D194L

Danton, Georges Jacques, 1759-1794.

Revolutionaries -- France -- Biography.

France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.

9780802119339 (hc.) :

0802119336 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Danton, a life.

294 p. , [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical reference (p. 265-284) and index.

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.

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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