“Where Robespierre was driven by intellect and inquiry, Danton was motivated by passion. Where Robespierre spoke with a calculating tone, Danton delivered spontaneous drama. History presents him as so diametrically opposed to Robespierre that you wonder whether their relationship has been devised by a Hollywood screen-player writer. The result would be Bruce Willis as Robespierre, Danton played by Jim Carrey, and a trailer that began “Max liked the Social Contract – Georges liked social drinking. One was incorruptible – the other was irredeemable. But they were stuck with each other in "Georges and Max’s wild weekend in Paris” Then we d’see them yelling at each other, then Robespierre saying “I feel so ashamed at what I did with that tart” and Danton replying “I have that feeling every night, you will get used to it”

Vive la Révolution, Mark Steel
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