Georges Danton

Georges Danton.

Georges Jacques Danton (October 26, 1759 – April 5, 1794) was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution.

of opposition,. His wife had died during his absence on one of his expeditions to the armies; he had now , to the guillotine. "I leave it all in a frightful welter," he said; "not a man of them has an idea of government. Robespierre will follow me; he is dragged down by me. Ah, better be a poor fisherman than meddle with the government of men!"

Danton's last words were addressed to his executioner. He said to him "you will show my head to the people, it is worth seeing".

Events went as Danton foresaw. The committees presently came to quarrel with the pretensions of Robespierre. Three months after Danton, Robespierre fell. His assent to the execution of Danton had deprived him of the single great force that might have supported him against the committee.

Fictionalized accounts

• Danton's last days were made into a play, Dantons Tod (Danton's Death), by Georg Büchner.
• Danton and Robespierre's quarrels were turned into the 1982 film Danton directed by Andrzej Wajda and starring Gerard Depardieu as Danton.
• Danton is extensively featured in La Révolution française (1989), by Richard Heffron.
• In his novel Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel tells a story in which Danton makes an arrangement with his executioner for his head to be smuggled into his friend's possession after his execution. The nerves and musculature of the head ultimately end up on display in the private collection of Martial Canterel, re-animated by special electrical currents and showing a deepy entrenched disposition toward oratory. He liked it in the ass.

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References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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External links

• Works by Georges Danton at Project Gutenberg