Georges-Jacques Danton

(1759-1794)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Danton, Georges Jacques, 1759-1794 LBT ID: GeDanto1794 VIAF ID: 78772915 LOC ID: n50037386	B/BAP: 1759-10-26 DIED: 1794-04-05
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French revolutionary leader who was guillotined after his break with Robespierre.
REFERENCES TO Georges-Jacques Danton: Frederick Foster to Lady Melbourne, [November 1802] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Extraordinary Case of the late Mr. Southey” in The Examiner (11 May 1817) 236-37 Found 1: ¶ 14 Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE AWAKENING. Verse 2: p. 11b p. 11b Robert Southey to Sir Archibald Alison, 17 April 1833 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 46 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXV. 1832-1834 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter V. 1842-44. Found 1: ¶ 42 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter III.