France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

Hilary Mantel’s novel, “A Place of Greater Safety,” follows the course of the French Revolution, focusing on famous leaders such as Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulin and Maximilien Robespierre. Vause ...

To paraphrase the French Revolution’s Georges Danton, fuss, fuss again, fuss greatly. Or as the saying goes, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”.

The revolutionary leader Georges Danton said the play “killed off the nobility;” while, in exile, Napoleon Bonaparte called it “the Revolution already put into action.” Wikipedia styles ...

Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were 47, 38 and 38 in 1917. Jean-Paul Marat, Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre were 46, 29 and 31 in 1789. When the Declaration of ...

Przybyszewska’s most important work is The Danton Case. The book shows the conflict between Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton. She literally brought the past into the present by using ...

As the revolutionary Georges Danton of the French Revolution shouted at the end of the 18th century, “Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!” ...

Though the guillotined woman, a ballerina named Arsène, is a fictional creation, Dumas imagines her as the lover of real-life revolutionary leader Georges Danton. The general plot hews to Irving ...

Hilary Mantel's 'A Place of Greater Safety' provides a gripping portrayal of the French Revolution through the lives of three key figures—Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Maximilien Robespierre ...

An exemplary reconstruction led by Georges Mourier ... book in which the historical figures of the time (Bonaparte, Danton, Robespierre, Marat, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Charlotte Corday ...

Near where I stay, a statue of the revolutionary Georges Danton rises over the entrance to the Métro station that bears his name. When he and his fellow rebels rose up against the king ...

The 75-year-old Oscar-nominated thespian has portrayed numerous historical and fictitious figures including Georges Danton, Joseph Stalin, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Christopher Columbus ...