Danton

GEORGES JACQUES, (don'ton,) a French revolutionary leader, B. 1759, was a lawyer by profe ion, instituted the arch-radical Cordeliers' Club, and became the mouthpiece of the Paris i an mob. In conjunction with Robes pierre and Marat, D. organized the sanguinary uprising in 1792, which inaugurated the Reign of Terror,and ended in the subversion of monarchical rule by the murder of Louis XVI. Leader of the "Mountain" party, D., in 1793, was made a member of the Committee of Public Safety, and contributed his share to the atrocious edicts it promulgated. Guillotined by order of Robes pierre, 1794. Danube, [s. 264] IMG:p0293_0.jpg:Gravür