Accounts differ as to whether or not Desmoulins was present at the Champs de Mars ; in the subsequent upheaval, warrants for the arrest of himself and Georges Danton were issued.

Danton fled Paris, and Desmoulins, though he remained in the city, and spoke on several occasions at the Jacobin Club, decreased his journalistic activities for a time.

It was also subject to limited video release at that time by Sun Video ( 1978 ) and Danton Video ( 1980 ).

Danton and his friends were assisted in their work by the fear of invasion, for the allied army was at length mustering on the frontier.

Danton can hardly be acquitted of connivance at them.

The local weather forecast in Westward Diary ( with an emphasis on information useful to fishermen and farmers ) was given by a popular local personality, Graham Danton, who presented several programmes for Westward, including Holiday Times ( an events listings programme aimed at people holiday-making in the region ) and Late With Danton ( a consumer programme ).

He admitted he adopted the surname " Danton " from the name of a 13-year-old boy at David Frost's hockey camp, because the name sounded " cool ".

Danton took university correspondence courses at Queen's University while imprisoned.

On January 27, 2010, Danton played in his first game since being released from prison, and scored a goal for the Saint Mary's Huskies, during their 4-1 loss to the Acadia Axemen, played at the Halifax Forum in Halifax.

On January 30, 2010, Danton played for the Saint Mary's Huskies during a 5-3 loss to the UPEI Panthers played at the MacLauchlan Arena in Charlottetown.

Danton achieved a 3. 9 GPA overall through the winter and spring semesters as well as summer school, and it was revealed in a media story that his study ethic keeps him in the Patrick Power Library at Saint Mary's until 11pm each night.

On May 20, 2012, Coventry Blaze of the Elite Ice Hockey League announced the signing of Mike Danton, although his place at the club is in doubt due to the UK Border Agency rejecting his application for a UK entry visa.

" Under Lafayette's command, the National Guard at first dispersed the crowd without bloodshed, but the crowd re-formed, with Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins giving fiery speeches.

Although his involvement seems only to have failed to reveal the plot – of which he knew only part – he was nonetheless accused before the Revolutionary Tribunal at the same time as Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins.

Danton, one of the Frenchmen present at the meeting of the National Convention, expressed this sentiment:

* Ça Ira !, or Danton in the French Revolution, a rehabilitation of Danton ( 1888 ) ( at Internet Archive and Google Books )

In Paris, Danton, Robespierre and Marat argue about the threat, while also sniping at each other.

In December 1793, the journalist Camille Desmoulins-whose political opinions had long been aligned with those of Danton and Robespierre-began publishing a journal, Le Vieux Cordelier, aimed in part at the discrediting of the Hébertist faction.

Through 1911, while rival navies were turning out new dreadnoughts, all France's available shipyards were dedicated to producing the 6-ship Danton class pre-dreadnoughts which, though they featured turbine / quad screw propulsion, still mounted only 4 heavy guns each, as against at least 10 for a dreadnought.

Robespierre was the central figure in both of her surviving plays, The Danton Case, which was completed in 1929, and an earlier play, Thermidor, which remained unfinished at the time of her death in 1935.

At the same time, he opposed Georges Danton and The Mountain, and rejected the creation of a Committee of Public Safety and Revolutionary Tribunal ( but abstained when the question of Marat's trial before the Tribunal was brought up by the Girondists ).

.... it really seems as though old Hegel, in the guise of the World Spirit, were directing history from the grave and, with the greatest conscientiousness, causing everything to be re-enacted twice over, once as grand tragedy and the second time as rotten farce, Caussidière for Danton, L. Blanc for Robespierre, Barthélemy for Saint-Just, Flocon for Carnot, and the moon-calf together with the first available dozen debt-encumbered lieutenants for the little corporal and his band of marshals.

Georges Danton, the leader of the August 1792 uprising against the King, undermined by several political reversals, was removed from the Committee and Robespierre, " the Incorruptible ", became its most influential member as it moved to take radical measures against the Revolution's domestic and foreign enemies.

The most famous prisoners ( and victims ) included Queen Marie Antoinette, the poet André Chénier, Charlotte Corday, Madame Élisabeth, Madame du Barry and the Girondins, who were condemned by Georges Danton, who was in turn condemned by Robespierre, who was himself condemned and executed in a final bout of bloodletting.

The first volume ’ s epigraph is attributed to Danton: “ La vérité, l ’ âpre vérité ” (“ The truth, the harsh truth ”), which is fictional, like most of the chapter epigraphs.

Stephens ' most recent stage role, performed in the summer and autumn of 2010, was Georges Danton in Danton's Death.

Eric Danton of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found the album " suffers from the same problem afflicting most major-label albums dumped on the market by an industry desperate for quick cash — It's About Time features one hit single, a couple of lesser tracks and a lot of filler.

Her 1929 play The Danton Case, which examines the conflict between Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton, is considered to be one of the most exemplary works about the Revolution, and was adapted ( albeit with significant ideological edits ) by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda for his 1983 film Danton.

* Georges Danton ( 1759 – 1794 ), leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution

Following the French Revolution he joined the Cordeliers and was a friend of Georges Danton.

Subsequent action taken against the Cordeliers included the closing of the Cordeliers Convent to them and the issuing of arrest warrants for Danton and Desmoulins.

The Hébertists, were arrested, and, on March 24, 1794, executed ; however, Desmoulins, Danton, and the " Old Cordeliers " of the " indulgent " Dantonist faction quickly followed them to the guillotine, effectively ending the era of the Cordeliers Club.

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The ruling spirit of this new revolution was Danton, a barrister only thirty-two years old, who had not sat in either Assembly, although he had been the leader of the Cordeliers, an advanced republican club, and had a strong hold on the common people of Paris.

The ruling spirit of this new revolution was Georges Jacques Danton, a barrister only thirty-two years old, who had not sat in either Assembly, although he had been the leader of the republican Cordeliers ( Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ), which was popular in Paris.

The journal's title alluded to the fact that the Cordeliers Club, formerly a moderate revolutionary society dominated by the policies of Danton, had become overrun by sans-culotte Hébertists and their sympathizers.

He was an ardent supporter of the ideas of the Revolution and a leader of the Storming of the Bastille ; a close friend of Georges Danton, Legendre was a member of the Jacobin Club, and one of the founders of the club of the Cordeliers.

After the Constituent Assembly, he became president of the criminal tribunal of Paris, but was arrested by Danton during the insurrection of 10 August 1792.

In it, Frost instructs Danton to plead guilty and ends the conversation demanding Danton say " I love you ," which Danton does, further fueling speculation of a homosexual relationship between the two.

Georges Danton attempted to negotiate with the Emperor for Marie Antoinette's release from captivity, but Francis was unwilling to make any concessions in return.

Georges Danton, the leader of the August 1792 uprising against the King, was removed from the Committee.

Because dissent was now regarded as counter-revolutionary, extremist enragés such as Hébert and moderate Montagnard indulgents such as Danton were guillotined in the Spring of 1794.

In a contrasting report, historian Richard Kurin speculated that the " theft " of the French Crown Jewels was in fact engineered by the revolutionary leader Georges Danton as part of a plan to bribe an opposing military commander, Duke Karl Wilhelm of Brunswick.

He was thus blamed by Danton for the mishap and called a " traitor " to the people by Maximilien Robespierre.

Isnard was supported in this effort by Georges Danton, who declared, " This Committee is precisely what we want, a hand to grasp the weapon of the Revolutionary Tribunal.

Closely associated with the leadership of Danton, it was initially known as " the Danton Committee ".

However, when the Committee was recomposed on July 10, Danton was not included.

Hérault de Séchelles – a friend and ally of Danton – was expelled from the Committee of Public Safety, arrested, and tried alongside them.

Grattan's political philosophy was allied to that of Edmund Burke ; Tone was a disciple of Georges Danton and Thomas Paine.

He returned to Sompuis, and was saved from arrest possibly by the protection of Georges Danton and in some degree by the impression made by his mother's courageous piety on the local commissary of the Convention.

He was a childhood friend of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Georges Danton, who were influential figures in the French Revolution.

Danton was his ally and, in the end, the Committee of Public Safety sentenced both of these men to death.

* Fouquier was played by Roger Planchon in Andrzej Wajda's film Danton ( 1983 ).

After his victory he was summoned to Paris, where, as a friend and partisan of Georges Danton, he was proscribed with the Dantonist party and guillotined.