Hilaire Belloc 
Danton: A Study [EPUB ebook] 

A fine study of the French revolutionary leader Georges Danton, fiery leader whom many historians describe as "the chief force in the overthrow of the French monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic" "AN historian of just pre-eminence in his university and college, in a little work which should be more widely known, has summed up the two principal characters of the Revolution in the following phrases; "the cold and ferocious Robespierre, the blatant Danton."