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Noun: Danton  dan-t(u)n
  1. French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794)
    - Georges Danton, Georges Jacques Danton

Type of: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter

Encyclopedia: Danton