Danton Georges Biography

A lawyer by profession, he advanced like a brilliant people's tribune from the very first days of the revolution. In the city, after organizing the revolutionary Parisian commune, Danton was appointed assistant prosecutor. Danton was elected to the National Convention, which sent him to Belgium to organize the management of this country. After the uprising on August 10, at the first news of the arrival of enemy troops, Danton is taken up for the organization and leadership of the defense of revolutionary France.

In December, since then, Danton openly and decisively opens against supporters of terror, representatives of the most democratic layers, Shomett and Geeber, and helps Robespierre to deal with them. But he himself arouses the suspicions of Robespierre, who finds the line of Dantonists is not revolutionary enough. Under the pressure of Robespierre Danton and his supporters on March 31, the trial ended with the death sentence, and on April 5, Danton with his closest like -minded people was guillotinized.

Georges Jacques Danton Georges Jacques Danton-born on October 26 in Arsi-Sur-Op, was the fourth son in the family of a provincial prosecutor. He studied at the seminary, a college in Trois arrived in Paris, Danton served as an assistant to the prosecutor, then bought a lawyer’s position, speaking in the lawsuit of the Paris Parliament, Danton quickly acquired clientele and fame thanks to rare oratory talent.

A man of great stature and physical strength, with an ugly flattened nose, linked to the smallpox and a face covered with scars, he possessed a powerful and beautiful voice, charm and art to convince. Gabrieli Charpentier was married to Danton, they had three sons of the elder died in infancy. After the death of Gabrieli, Danton married Louise Zhely already on the eve of the capture of Bastille on July 14, Danton's voice called Parisians to weapons.

Possessing all the qualities of the people's tribune, he quickly became one of the revolutionary leaders and was elected chairman of the radical club of cordeliers, being simultaneously a member of the Jacobin club. Danton played an important role in the campaign of the poor on Versailles October, forced to escape in Danton, called the people to depict the king on July 17, occupying posts in the Executive Committee and the Rebel Commune, participated in the preparation of the uprising on August 10 After the overthrow of the monarchy, he was appointed Minister of Justice of the revolutionary government.

He was one of the few who managed to maintain composure upon the onset of interventionists in August-September G. He prevented the government from leaving Paris, sent commissars to inspire the masses and gain volunteers, arrested about three thousand suspicious in Paris. Danton came up with the rostrum of the Legislative Assembly: “The ringing of an alarm, which is heard, is not an alarm, but a call to fight enemies of the Fatherland.

To defeat them, I need courage, courage and courage again, and then France will be saved! At the same time, being the Minister of Justice, Danton was guilty of the condemnation of the massless killings of the royalists in Paris prisons On this period, he was also engaged in foreign policy, the organization of the revolutionary army, however, after the defeat of the Girondhs, he believed that the achievements of the revolution are already fixed enough, Danton began to speak out for the cessation of terror.

The court of the revolutionary tribunal ended with the adoption of the death sentence, and on April 5, the identity and activity of Danton are extremely contradictory.

Danton's merits in the assertion of the principles of the French revolution are undeniable. At the same time, Danton belonged to those figures who were expecting fast personal benefit from the revolution. During the revolution, Danton drunk huge land wealth through the purchase of national property. In order to enrich personal enrichment, he used requisitions for the needs of the army.

Danton darted between his glory leader and the desire to stop the revolutionary wheel in order to calmly enjoy life and property, but the tragic fate led him to the scaffold. Reprint from the site.