The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, a Life

by David Lawday

Book Overview

One of the Western world's most epic uprisings, the French Revolution ended a monarchy that had ruled for almost a thousand years. George-Jacques Danton was the driving force behind it. In the first biography of Danton in over forty years, David Lawday reveals the larger-than-life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and was dead five years later. To hear Danton speak, his booming voice a roll of thunder, excited bourgeois...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802119336
• ISBN13: 9780802119339
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"