The Giant of the French Revolution
Subtitle: Danton, a Life
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780802119339
Description: In the first biography of Danton in over forty years, the historian David Lawday reveals the tragic, larger-than-life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the Bastille in 1789 at age twenty-nine and was dead five years later.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Paris, 15 July 1789; title: Bullfights; title: Doing the palais; title: Questions for a bourgeois gentleman; title: Jumping upon a tide; title: The Cordelier republic; title: Travails of a people's champion; title: A wilful woman in the way; title: The revolution at war; title: The end of a thousand-year throne; title: Courage, patriots!; title: Long live the Republic; title: The execution of a king; title: Flames in Flanders; title: In the green room; title: Exit moderates; title: The rule of terror; title: Fight to the death; title: The cornered bull; title: Trial and execution; title: Epilogue