CONTENTS


CHAP.  PAGE

PREFACE Vii

I.   THE   REVOLUTION I

II.   THE   YOUTH   OF  DANTON 40

III.  DANTON   AT   THE   CORDELIERS 57

IV.  THE  FALL   OF  THE  MONARCHY 114

V.   THE  REPUBLIC 171

VI.   THE   TERROR 211

VII.   THE  DEATH   OF   DANTON 249

VIII.   ROBESPIERRE 282

APPENDICES—

I.   NOTE   ON   THE   CORDELIERS 32 1

II.    NOTE   ON   CERTAIN   SITES   MENTIONED   IN   THIS  BOOK  327
III.   NOTE  ON  THE   SUPPOSED   VENALITY   OF   DANTON          .  33 1
IV.    NOTE   ON   DANTON'S   RESPONSIBILITY  FOR  THE   MAS-
SACRES   OF   SEPTEMBER 34O

V.   SHORT   MEMOIR   BY   A.    R.    C.    DE  ST.   ALBIN           .           .  347
VI.   EXTRACTS    SHOWING    REIMBURSEMENT    OF    DANTON'S

OFFICE 365

VII.   EXTRACTS   CONCERNING   DANTON'S   HOUSEHOLD.           .  373

VIII.   CATALOGUE   OF  DANTON'S   LIBRARY    ....  380
IX.   EXTRACTS   FROM   THE   MEMOIR  WRITTEN   IN    1 846  BY

THE   SONS   OF   DANTON 384

X.   NOTES  OF   TOPINO-LEBRUN,   JUROR  OF  THE   REVOLU-  *^

TIONARY  TRIBUNAL  •  T  $  ?  t£^  fc*M*W*^95

XI.   REPORT     OF     THE      FIRST     COMMITTEE      OF      PUBLIC

SAFETY 403

INDEX ' 430

XV


THE

LIFE    OF    DANTON

CHAPTER  I
THE   REVOLUTION

Before  writing  a  life  of  Danton  in  English  it  is  necessary
to  do  three  things.  First,  to  take  a  definite  point  of
view  with  regard  to  the  whole  revolutionary  movement;
secondly,  to  explain,  so  far  as  is  possible,  the  form  which
it  took  in  France ;  thirdly,  to  show  where  Danton  stood
in  the  scheme  of  events,  the  nature  of  his  personality,
the  effects  of  his  brief  action.  This  triple  task  is  neces-
sary to  a  book  which,  but  for  it,  would  be  only  a  string
of  events,  always  confused,  often  without  meaning.
