Georges-Jacques Danton
-Son of a Lawyer and Minor Court Official
-Earned a degree in Law at the University of Reims
-Employed as the Public Persecutor in Paris
-Purchased the office of advocate of the Kings Council
-Was known to be lazy
-Appears to have been less radical that what was believed
-founded the Cordeliers club
-Involved in the Fall of Bastille
-Was elected first deputy prosecutor of the Paris Commune
-Elected president of the Théâtre Française Electoral District
-named the minister of justice
-Supported the French Revolution it seems (from who he supported,
including Alphonse Aulard)
-In April 1794 (the 5th to be more specific) he was sent to the
Guillotine
Jacques- Pierre Brissot
-Son of an eating-housekeeper
-Started off working as a clerk in a lawyers’ office, first in Chartes and
then in Paris
-He has ambitions to do with literacy
-Son of a Lawyer and Minor Court Official
-Earned a degree in Law at the University of Reims
-Employed as the Public Persecutor in Paris
-Purchased the office of advocate of the Kings Council
-Was known to be lazy
-Appears to have been less radical that what was believed
-founded the Cordeliers club
-Involved in the Fall of Bastille
-Was elected first deputy prosecutor of the Paris Commune
-Elected president of the Théâtre Française Electoral District
-named the minister of justice
-Supported the French Revolution it seems (from who he supported,
including Alphonse Aulard)
-In April 1794 (the 5th to be more specific) he was sent to the
Guillotine
Jacques- Pierre Brissot
-Son of an eating-housekeeper
-Started off working as a clerk in a lawyers’ office, first in Chartes and
then in Paris
-He has ambitions to do with literacy
