George-Jacques Danton
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AKA: Orator of the Streets
Born: October 26th, 1759
Died: April 5th, 1794 in Paris, France
Born in Arcis-Sur-Aube, Champagne
Activist Nationality: French
Characteristics He has a strenterious voicePragmatistVery lazySmartSexual Orientation: straight
He was 1st minister of justiceHe did not agree with the Reign of Terror.He did not think it needed to be used as much as it has been.
Views on the Reign of Terror
Fat White hairBlue/gray eyesStumpyMaleEthnicity: white
Physical Characteristics
That Robespierre would go down, and follow him.– Soon after Robespierre was arrested and sent to the guillotine.
He Predicted….
Robespierre
Georges-Jacques Danton
Fight for leadership
Robespierre Danton
Believes in the Guillotine
Ascetic, cold, severe, cautious, and uncompromising
Luxurious, reckless, generous
Danton Did not like the Girondins.
He was in between the Girondins and the Jacobins. When they started to split he was more towards the Jacobins.
Girondins
He was involved in the destruction of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789He was elected the 1st deputy prosecutor of the Paris Commune “Key figure in French Revolution”
Relation to the French rev.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Danton
http://www.astrotheme.fr/en/portraits/84qS5DHNBUZ3.htm
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1108509
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Danton
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/georges-jacques-danton/
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