Danton and Other Verse (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Danton and Other VerseThe following sketches of episodes in the French Revolution, which for convenience are labelled 'Danton, ' have no pretensions to be a drama, such as the name might seem to advance, nor to historical precision. Words, e.g., are put into the speakers' mouths on other occasions than those on which they were actually used, and all the incidents are not vouched for, though all, or most, are based on actual or reputed facts. It will be observed that the events belong chiefly to the last six months of Danton's life, when he had retired from office, when the Terror reigned, but long after the September massacres. The portrait given is not, I think, in its main outlines unfaithful. But it would be, if even earlier in his life he had, as was so long believed, devised and organised those hideous massacres.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.