Danton fled to England ; Desmoulins and Marat went into hiding.

Danton fled to England ; Desmoulins and Marat went into hiding.

* Georges Danton, representative of Paris proper ( guillotined )

After a short imprisonment on a charge of inciting riots in Haguenau, he returned to Paris, where he joined Georges Danton and played an important part in the attack on the Tuileries on 10 August 1792.

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.

Meanwhile in Paris, meeting in the National Assembly, the majority Girondists are losing to the Montagnards: Robespierre, Danton, Marat and their followers.

Elected, like Maximilien Robespierre, Georges Danton, and Collot d ' Herbois, a deputy of Paris to the National Convention, he spoke in favour of the immediate abolition of the Bourbon monarchy, and the next day demanded that all acts be dated from the Year I of the French Republic ( a measure adopted a little over a year later in the form of the French Revolutionary Calendar ).

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.

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.

With the onset of war and the threat of the revolution's collapse, radical Jacobin and ultimately republican conceptions grew enormously in popularity, increasing the influence of Robespierre, Danton, Marat and the Paris Commune.

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.

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

The news of the failure of the French arms in Belgium gave rise in Paris to popular movements on March 9 and 10, 1793, and on March 10, on the proposal of Danton, the Convention decreed that there should be established in Paris an extraordinary criminal tribunal, which received the official name of the Revolutionary Tribunal by a decree of October 20, 1793.

Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins gave fiery speeches.

Other important figures guillotined on the site, often in front of cheering crowds, were Queen Marie Antoinette, Princess Élisabeth of France, Charlotte Corday, Madame du Barry, Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Antoine Lavoisier, Maximilien Robespierre, Louis de Saint-Just and Olympe de Gouge.

However, later that same day, it assembled again, due in part to speeches given by Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins.

Consequently, though the Hébertists were arrested and executed in March, 1794, the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security ensured that Desmoulins and Danton were also arrested.

* March 30: Danton, Desmoulins and their supporters arrested.

* April 5: Danton and Desmoulins guillotined.

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.

Camille Desmoulins ( Robert Vidalin ), Danton's secretary, interrupts Danton to tell of a new song that has been printed, called " La Marseillaise ".

" This district, under the leadership of Georges Danton, had played a significant role in the Storming of the Bastille, and was home to several notable figures of the Revolution, including Danton himself, Desmoulins, and Jean-Paul Marat-on whose behalf the district placed itself in a state of civil rebellion when, in January 1790, it refused to allow the execution of a warrant for his arrest that had been issued by the Châtelet.

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.

Danton, at this time perhaps the most powerful figure within the Cordeliers Club, acted, in Hilaire Belloc's words, as " the organizer and chief of the insurrection ," and was appointed Minister of Justice in the government that resulted, with Desmoulins and Fabre d ' Églantine-both prominent members of the Cordeliers Club-as his secretaries.

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.

Talma was also a friend of Joseph Chénier, Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins and other revolutionists.

" 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.

Danton and his friends and allies — Maximilien Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Fabre d ' Églantine, Jean-Paul Marat, etc .— were assisted in their work by the fear of invasion.

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.

On April 5, 1794, Lucile Desmoulins was arrested on charges that she had conspired to free her husband ( then imprisoned in the Luxembourg while on trial with Georges Danton ).

* Danton ( 1982 ) by Andrzej Wajda-Camille Desmoulins

Later, using the guillotine, Sanson and his men executed successive waves of well-known revolutionaries, including Danton, Robespierre, Saint-Just, Hébert, and Desmoulins.

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George Danton was born 26 October 1759 in Arcis-sur-Aube to a respectable though not wealthy family.

.... 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.

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.

Erzulie Danton is seen as the patron of lesbians, although she is herself bisexual having a lot of children and two husbands, Simbi Makaya and Ti Jean Petwo, though she is said to prefer the company of women.

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.

They were curious of the homeland of the great French Revolution of 1789 and the city where their heroes Jean-Paul Marat, Georges Danton and Louis de Saint-Just had lived and fought.

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

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.

Moreover, the Septembriseurs — Robespierre, Danton, Marat and their lesser satellites — realised that not only their influence but their safety depended on keeping the Revolution alive.

According to a popular legend, Fabre complained bitterly about the injustice done to him on the way to the scaffold, whereupon Danton replied with supreme sarcasm: " Des vers ... Avant huit jours, tu en feras plus que tu n ' en voudras!

On his return, Billaud-Varenne was included to the Reign of Terror's Committee of Public Safety, which had decreed the mass arrest of all suspects and the establishment of a revolutionary army, caused the extraordinary criminal tribunal to be named officially " Revolutionary Tribunal " ( on 29 October 1793 ), demanded the execution of Marie Antoinette, and then attacked Jacques René Hébert and Danton.

With Robespierre the sole remaining strong man of the Revolution ( following the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, and the executions of Georges Danton and Jacques Hébert ), his apparently total grasp on power was, in fact, increasingly illusory, especially insofar as he seemed to have support from factions to his right.

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.

* Septembriseurs — The Mountain and others ( such as Georges Danton ) who were on the rise in the period of the September Massacres

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 ).

Michael Sage Danton ( born as Michael Stephen Jefferson on October 21, 1980 ) is a Canadian ice hockey player currently playing for the Kramfors Alliance in the Swedish Division 1 league.

In it, the documentary casts light on the controlling relationship Frost had with Danton and how he encouraged Danton to estrange himself from his parents, as well as an alleged incident where Frost and a group of his players abused Danton's younger brother.

The documentary also focuses on a taped telephone call Danton made to Frost a week after his arrest.

Frost was acquitted of all charges on November 28, 2008 ; the trial included testimony from women who had participated in threesomes with other players and Danton.

In an unrelated matter, Frost was also acquitted on February 14, 2009 of fraud charges related to the use of one of Danton's credit cards ; Danton stated that Frost had his permission to use the card.

Under Canadian law, Danton was eligible for parole, which was granted on September 11, 2009.

It was announced by Canadian Interuniversity Sport on October 4, 2010 that Mike Danton had been named an Academic All-Canadian based on a student CIS athlete achieving a grade point average of 3. 7 or higher.