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The French Revolution Chapter III - The Characters of the Revolution - La Fayette - Dumouriez - Danton
In which we observe three vivid portraits of men who shaped, and were shaped by, the tempestuous dawn of the French Revolution: La Fayette, the aloof and principled noble whose youth in America coloured his ideals; Dumouriez, the capable soldier whose lack of fidelity to the State made him a complex figure; and Danton, the energetic and passionate revolutionary whose grasp of his nation’s character put him at odds with the era’s fanaticism. Each man, with his virtues and failings, reveals the tangled interplay of ambition, conviction, and circumstance amidst the upheaval.
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