Definition of Georges Jacques Danton

1. Noun. French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).

Exact synonyms: Danton
Generic synonyms: Revolutionary, Revolutionist, Subversive, Subverter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Georges Jacques Danton

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Georges Clemenceau
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Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Georges Henri Lemaitre
Georges Jacques Danton (current term)
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon
Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier
Georges Pierre Seurat
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Georges de La Tour
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Georgi
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Georgia
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Literary usage of Georges Jacques Danton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World's Orators: Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History edited by Guy Carleton Lee (1902)
"... Georges Jacques Danton was born at Arcis-sur-Aube, October 26, 1759. His father died when Danton was young, but the boy received an excellent education ..."

2. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1903)
"Georges Jacques Danton "TO DARE AGAIN, EVER TO DARE!" [Georges Jacques Danton, a prominent member of the Convention that carried out ..."

3. The Principal Speeches of the Statesmen and Orators of the French Revolution by Henry Morse Stephens (1892)
"Georges Jacques Danton was the son of Jacques Danton, a procureur at Arcis-sur-Aube, and a member of a good bourgeois family, and of Marie Madeleine Camus, ..."

4. Life of Danton by Augustus Henry Beesly (1906)
"... GEORGES-JACQUES DANTON was born at Arcis-sur-Aube on October 26,, the year in which the French lost the battle of Minden and Wolfe captured Quebec. ..."

5. Ça Ira! Or, Danton in the French Revolution: Or, Danton in the French by Laurence Gronlund (1887)
"It was in this mental atmosphere that Danton grew up, — Georges Jacques Danton, the French Sir Harry Vane, who was more than once to save France and the ..."

6. Camille Desmoulins and His Wife: Passages from the History of the Dantonists by Jules Claretie, Frances Cashel Hoey (1876)
"My name is Georges-Jacques Danton, law-adviser to the former Council, and afterwards a revolutionist and representative of the people,' replied Danton. ..."

7. Robespierre and the Red Terror by Jan ten Brink, J. Hedeman (1899)
"Danton was of good family : his father had been an advocate at Arcis sur Aube, where Georges Jacques Danton was born on October 6th, 1759. ..."

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