Danton – Georges Jacques Danton
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Danton
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Danton is the “Patriôte Leader” in Polaris. He is a close friend to Red Rosa and imprisoned in the Bastille. Rosa asks your wizard to free Danton at the same time you free Ivan the Great from the Bastille.
Georges Jacques Danton (October 26, 1759 – April 5, 1794) was a leading figure in the French Revolution. A modest and unknown lawyer on the eve of the Revolution, Danton became a famous orator of the Cordeliers Club and was raised to governmental responsibilities as the French Minister of Justice following the fall of the monarchy on the tenth of August 1792, and was allegedly responsible for inciting the September Massacres. He was tasked by the National Convention to intervene in the military conquest of Belgium led by French General Dumouriez. And in the Spring of 1793, he supported the foundation of a Revolutionary Tribunal and became the first president of the Committee of Public Safety.
Currently housed at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris
During the Insurrection of May 31 – June 2 1793 he changed his mind on the use of force and lost his seat in the committee afterwards, which solidified the rivalry between Danton and Robespierre. In early October 1793, he left politics but was urged to return to Paris to plead, as a moderate, for an end to the Terror. Danton’s continual criticism of the Committee of Public Safety provoked further counter-attacks. Robespierre replied to Danton’s plea for an end to the Terror on December 25, 1793. At the end of March 1794, Danton made another speech announcing the end of the Terror. Within a week, Danton faced accusations of purported royalist inclinations, leading to his trial and subsequent guillotine execution on charges of conspiracy and venality.
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