The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A LifeOne of the Western worlds most epic uprisings, the French Revolution ended a monarchy that had ruled for almost a thousand years. George Jacques Danton was the driving force behind it. In the first biography of Danton in over forty years, David Lawday reveals the larger than life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and was dead five years later. To hear Danton speak, his booming voice a roll of thunder, excited bourgeois