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Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

‘Ferocious in face and probably of heart,’ she wrote of him. ‘I could not apply the idea of a good man to that face.’Danton represented to Manon the antithesis of all that she valued: discipline, discretion, virtue, self-sacrifice. She imagined him, dagger in hand, inciting the mob on to still gr...