Georges Danton
French revolutionary (1759–1794)
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Unknown lawyer who became the French Revolution's most magnetic speaker, rose to Justice Minister after the monarchy fell in 1792, and steered through the Committee of Public Safety before the Terror consumed him too.
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Georges Jacques Danton was a French politician and leading figure of the French Revolution. A modest and unknown lawyer on the eve of the Revolution, Danton became a famous orator of the Cordeliers Club and was raised to governmental responsibilities as the French Minister of Justice following the fall of the monarchy on the tenth of August 1792, and was allegedly responsible for inciting the September Massacres. He was tasked by the National Convention to intervene in the military conquest of Belgium led by General Dumouriez, and in the spring of 1793 supported the foundation of a Revolutiona…
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