Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . anguage, entitledOn Popular Speech; and an inquiryinto the relative altitude of the waterand the land, Land and Water. DANTON, GEORGES JACQUES, aFrench revolutionist; born in Arcis-sur-Aube, Oct. 26, 1759. He was an advocateby profession, but became one of themost active among the demagogues of theRevolutionary period. After the im-prisonment of Louis XVI, at Varennes,he took the lead in the meeting of Champ-de-Mars, which paved the way to thedethronement of the king. Danto
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . anguage, entitledOn Popular Speech; and an inquiryinto the relative altitude of the waterand the land, Land and Water. DANTON, GEORGES JACQUES, aFrench revolutionist; born in Arcis-sur-Aube, Oct. 26, 1759. He was an advocateby profession, but became one of themost active among the demagogues of theRevolutionary period. After the im-prisonment of Louis XVI, at Varennes,he took the lead in the meeting of Champ-de-Mars, which paved the way to thedethronement of the king. Dantonsburly figure, stentorian voice, courageand self-confidence fitted him to domi-nate the revolutionists. He became oneof the executive council and took activemeasures to defend Paris, threatened bythe Prussians under the Duke of Bruns-wick. He was afterward a member ofthe Convention and of the Committee of DANUBE 262 DANVILLE Public Safety, and was a chief promoterof all the sanguinary acts of that terribleperiod. At length a struggle for su-premacy took place between him andRobespierre, in which the latter was suc-. DANTON cessful, when Danton was sent to theguillotine, April 5, 1794. DANUBE, a celebrated river of Eu-rope, originates in two small streamsrising in the Schwarzwald, or BlackForest, in Baden, and uniting atDonaueschingen. The direct distancefrom source to mouth of the Danube isabout 1,000 miles, and its total length,including windings, about 1,25 its source the Danube flows in aN. E. direction to Ulm, in Wiirttemberg,where it becomes navigable for vesselsof 100 tons; then to Ratisbon, in Ba-varia, where it becomes navigable forSteamers. Here it turns in a S. E. di-rection, entering Austria at Passau, pass-mg Vienna and Budapest, above whichlatter town it suddenly turns due S.,holding this direction till it is joined bythe Drave, after which it runs S. S. enters Servia at Belgrade. Continu-ing its general course E., it forms for along distance the b
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