An edition of The Giant of the French Revolution (2009)

The Giant of the French Revolution

Danton, a Life

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An edition of The Giant of the French Revolution (2009)

The Giant of the French Revolution

Danton, a Life

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One of the Western world's most epic uprisings, the French Revolution brought an end to an absolute monarchy that had ruled for almost a thousand years. And George-Jacques Danton was a driving force behind it. In the first biography of Danton in over forty years, the historian David Lawday reveals the tragic, larger-than-life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the Bastille in 1789 at age twenty-nine and was dead five years later. Danton's booming voice was a perpetual roll of thunder that excited bourgeois reformers and the mobs alike; his impassioned speeches, often hours long, drove the sansculottes to action and kept the revolution alive at the critical moment when it stumbled and risked collapse. But as the newly appointed minister of justice, Danton struggled to steer the increasingly divided revolutionary government. Working tirelessly to halt the bloodshed of Robespierre's Terror, he ultimately lost his grip, becoming one of its victims. True to form, Danton did not go easily to the guillotine; at his trial, he defended himself with such vehemence that the tribunal hastily approved a gag motion and convicted him before he could rally the crowd in his favor. In vivid, almost novelistic prose worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy, Lawday leads us from Danton's humble roots deep in France profonde to the streets of revolutionary Paris, where this political legend acted on the operatic stage of the revolution that altered Western civilization. - Publisher.

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Grove Press
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English

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Table of Contents

Prologue: Paris, 15 July 1789
Bullfights
Doing the palais
Questions for a bourgeois gentleman
Jumping upon a tide
The Cordelier republic
Travails of a people's champion
A wilful woman in the way
The revolution at war
The end of a thousand-year throne
Courage, patriots!
Long live the Republic
The execution of a king
Flames in Flanders
In the green room
Exit moderates
The rule of terror
Fight to the death
The cornered bull
Trial and execution
Epilogue

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Library of Congress
DC146.D2 L39 2009b, DC146.D2 L39 2009

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
294 p. , [8] p. of plates
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL24362653M
Internet Archive
giantoffrenchrev00lawd
ISBN 10
0802119336
ISBN 13
9780802119339
LCCN
2011381843
OCLC/WorldCat
475444731

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