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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Danton, Georges Jacques
 
SYLLABICATION:Dan·ton
PRONUNCIATION:  dä-tô
DATES:1759–1794
French Revolutionary leader who took part in the storming of the Bastille (1789) and supported the execution of Louis XVI (1793) but was guillotined the following year for his opposition to the excesses of the Reign of Terror.
 
 
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  Dante Alighieri Danu  
 
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