The letter, a witness to the birth of the French Republic, was sold to a private collector at auction to the disappointment of a group of historians, writers and politicians including Annie Duprat, ...

A kaleidoscope of short, sharp shocks, George Buchner’s 1835 drama “Danton’s Death” remains almost alarmingly modern in terms of form. As it tears through the politics of the French Revolution, this ...

I n the final segment of the film, when Danton is sentenced to death by Robespierre and his supporters, he says, 'You are not leading me to my death. I will live forever. The world will look at us and ...

Danton’s Death (by George Büchner; produced by the Mercury Theatre). Mars Director Orson Welles having blasted the U. S. into an uproar over the radio, Mercury Director Orson Welles turned last week ...

Radicals quite often come a cropper. Many of the early Bolshevik leaders went the way of the Tsar and his doomed family. The same was true in revolutionary France where the men who toppled Louis XVI ...

A passé take on Georg Büchner’s 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes. By Laura Cappelle Laura Cappelle is a Paris-based ...

Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror. By David Lawday. Jonathan Cape; 294 pages; £20. To be published in America by Grove Atlantic at the end of 2010. Buy from Amazon ...

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Bruce Levine, Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2020 The name of Thaddeus Stevens is too little known today. Bruce Levine, professor ...

A review of Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner in a new version by Howard Brenton at the National Theatre in London, directed by Michael Grandage. Danton’s Death, the famed play by German writer Georg ...