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Danton: the gentle giant of terror By David Lawday JONATHAN CAPE Pounds 20 (294pp) Pounds 18 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030

The names of the leaders of France's Great Revolution - Mirabeau, Marat, Robespierre - are inscribed in the annals as agents of the seismic change which launched our modern era. Yet they remain shadowy figures. They are a headache for biographers, for they had little time for anything except politics and did not live long enough to write memoirs.

This is particularly true of Georges-Jacques Danton (1759-1794), who committed nothing to paper and specialised in ambiguity. Historians still argue about him. Was he an opportunist, a demagogue, a ...

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