Crossword-Solution: DANTON
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DANTON | anagram | ANDNOT, DONNAT |
We have 14 clues for the answer “DANTON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A leader in the French Revolution. | 1 answer |
| French Revolutionary played by Gérard Depardieu | 1 answer |
| Georges who was a key member of the Jacobin Club, along with Robespierre and Marat | 1 answer |
| Guillotined French Revolutionist. | 1 answer |
| Marat's colleague | 1 answer |
| Prominent figure in the Reign of Terror | 1 answer |
| Robespierre foe | 1 answer |
| Contemporary of Robespierre. | 2 answers |
| French Revolution leader | 2 answers |
| French revolutionary leader | 3 answers |
| French Revolutionist. | 5 answers |
| Depardieu Actor | 10 answers |
| DEPARDIEU, GÉRARD | 10 answers |
| Dickens character. | 39 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DANTON (5)
Robespierre and Danton both had commended Bibot for his zeal, and Bibot was proud of the fact that he on his own initiative had sent at least fifty aristos to the guillotine.
When in a nation at any time there is a people apart thus constituted, the historian is pretty certain to find some representative figure, some central personage who embodies the qualities and the defects of the whole party to which he belongs; there is Coligny, for instance, among the Huguenots, the Coadjuteur in the time of the Fronde, the Marechal de Richelieu under Louis XV, Danton during the Terror.
Down with every army that fights against the soap-box, The Pericles, Socrates, Diogenes soap-box, The old Elijah, Jeremiah, John-the-Baptist soap-box, The Rousseau, Mirabeau, Danton soap-box, The Karl Marx, Henry George, Woodrow Wilson soap-box.
The Jacobins, headed by Danton, knew that this crisis meant either the success or the failure of the revolution, and that only the most brutal audacity could save them.
Danton was a young man of about five-and-twenty, with a considerable stock of impudence, and a very small share of ideas: he was a great favourite, especially with young ladies of from sixteen to twenty-six years of age, both inclusive.
Quotes with DANTON (3)
It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal. This, little man, is what you hav…
As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.
What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).