The result, which is laced with literary references, dramatizes the rivalry between two revolutionary leaders, Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre. Formerly friends, they are at odds when ...

One of those Jacobins was Georges Danton. It is hard to feel particularly sorry for him in Georg Buchner’s play because all the time you know that he helped to start the bloodshed which has led ...

The most prominent members of this group were Robespierre (1758-1794), Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794) and Georges Danton (1759-1794), according to McPhee. "Like so many of his peers, Robespierre ...

In 1792, Georges Danton stood before the French people and called for audacity—an insistence on courage as a means of survival. Centuries later, in a different kind of revolution, the multi ...

On Sunday, March 12, the Osenat House auctioned the only surviving letter from Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) to Georges Danton (1759-1794). It was sold to a French collector for €218,750.

Words I remember to this day were the last of Georges Danton on April 5, 1794, who allegedly said to his executioner: “Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.” Years later, having ...

It was one of the largest French naval vessels of its era The ship, named after the French revolutionary Georges Danton, was less than 10 years old at the time of its loss, but already outclassed by ...