Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Danton


Related Topics

In the News (Sat 2 Jun 12)

  
  Georges Danton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Danton was not involved in the two early insurrections of 1789 - the storming of the Bastille and the forcible removal of the court from Versailles to the Tuileries.
Danton was a member; resigning the ministry of justice, he took a prominent part in the deliberations and proceedings of the Convention, until his execution in April 1794.
Danton, immediately after the fall of the Girondins (28 July 1793), had thrown himself with extraordinary energy into the work to be done.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georges_Danton   (2363 words)

  
 DANTON - LoveToKnow Article on DANTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Danton was not elected to it, and his party was at this time only strong enough to procure for him a very subordinate post in the government of the Parisian municipality.
Danton was a member; resigning the ministry of justice, he took a foremost part in the deliberations and proceedings of the Convention, until his execution in April f 794.
Danton, immediately after the fall of the Girondins, had thrown himself with extraordinary energy into the work to be done.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DANTON.htm   (4487 words)

  
 Mike Danton Murder for Hire Plot -- Outsports.com
Danton begged the acquaintance not to go to the general manager of the St. Louis Blues hockey organization and ruin his career.
Danton's cover story was to have been that two burglars broke in, and one killed the other and fled with $3,000 in cash from the apartment.
Danton was arrested in the San Francisco Bay Area just hours after his team was eliminated from the NHL playoffs by the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night.
www.outsports.com /nhl/0417danton.htm   (888 words)

  
 Danton
Danton was said to be a notorious womanizer, despite his savage and ugly appearance, but there is little proof that he was anything but a devoted family man. The legend of his philandering may be yet another facet in the depiction of Danton as the "masculine" as opposed to the "feminine" asexuality of Robespierre.
Danton is a womanizer "he could have brought home to his wife half the diseases in Paris" and a pragmatist.
Danton is one of the characters who tells the story and is portrayed as an affable, pragmatic, down-to-earth, masculine type of guy lacking in imagination and idealism but making up for it in ambition, shrewdness and common sense.
www.angelfire.com /ca6/frenchrevolution89/danton.html   (2407 words)

  
 Judge keeps Danton in jail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Judge Michael Reagan said Danton was potentially dangerous and a risk to flee after a four-hour detention hearing which featured evidence and testimony indicating that the relationship between him and his agent, David Frost, continued through hours of jailhouse conversations after Danton's arrest in an alleged plot to kill the agent,.
Danton, a 23-year-old forward for the Blues, is accused of persuading acquaintance Katie Wolfmeyer to hire a hitman to kill Frost.
Danton's attorney, Bob Haar, had asked Reagan to overturn a magistrate's ruling and allow Danton's release to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation and treatment of an injured shoulder until his trial.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04143/320431.stm   (436 words)

  
 Danton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Is elected to the National Convention where he is immediately attacked by the moderate deputies known as the Girondins who see Danton as a dangerous radical.
Danton serving on the Committee of Public Safety, the executive organ of the French Republic.
Danton sympathizes with the faction interested in easing the repression and terror ("indulgents").
members.aol.com /snuffy1186/danton.html   (251 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Danton sentenced to 7 years in murder-for-hire plot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Danton's contract with the Blues expired after last season, and prosecutors and the FBI have said they won't oppose Danton's effort to transfer.
Danton's father has maintained Frost is to blame for destroying the family's relationship with their son.
Danton met Wolfmeyer at a suburban St. Louis mall where she worked at the Blues' practice rink, and the two had a brief relationship.
www.usatoday.com /sports/hockey/nhl/2004-11-08-danton-sentencing_x.htm   (914 words)

  
 CBC Sports Online Backgrounder - Mike Danton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A criminal complaint filed in a federal court in Illinois stated that Danton and a woman, 19-year-old Katie Wolfmeyer, allegedly attempted to hire a man to kill a male acquaintance, reported to be Danton's lover.
Chose the name Danton because it was the first name of a boy at a summer hockey camp, and it sounded cool.
Danton became associated with controversial agent David Frost, who at the time was an assistant coach with Quinte.
www.cbc.ca /sports/columns/indepth/danton_indepth.html   (1223 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- NHL's Danton finds trouble off ice
Danton and a woman authorities say helped him were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday of conspiring to arrange a murder for hire.
Authorities said Danton went to her for help in finding a killer, and she put him in touch with another man, unaware he was working for the FBI.
Danton allegedly told the informant that he wanted the killing to take place at his home April 15 – while Danton was in California – and he wanted it to look like a burglary gone bad.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20040422-1709-hkn-dantoncharged.html   (896 words)

  
 Danton denounces family
Danton’s statement outlined allegations of "constant physical and emotional abuse" and discussed the squalid conditions in which he was raised.
Danton’s mother, brother and aunt were in the federal courthouse for Friday’s hearing, but Danton did not acknowledge them.
Danton was arrested April 16 in San Jose, Calif., a day after the San Jose Sharks knocked the Blues out of the NHL playoffs.
www.showmenews.com /2004/May/20040509Spor016.asp   (497 words)

  
 Blues’ Danton indicted
Danton, arrested in San Jose, Calif., a day after the San Jose Sharks beat the Blues to eliminate them from the NHL playoffs, remains in federal custody.
Danton and an alleged accomplice, 19-year-old Katie Wolfmeyer, of the St. Louis suburb Florissant, were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to arrange a murder for hire and using a telephone across state lines to arrange it.
Danton came to the Blues in a June trade from the New Jersey Devils, where he had been twice suspended for disciplinary reasons.
www.showmenews.com /2004/Apr/20040423Spor012.asp   (478 words)

  
 The Daily News - Danton sentenced in murder plot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Danton, 24, said nothing as U.S. District Judge William Stiehl imposed the sentence.
Danton is expected to ask to be moved to a prison in his native Canada.
Wolfmeyer claimed she did not know Danton was trying to hire a hit man when she introduced him over the phone to an acquaintance, Justin Levi Jones.
www.tdn.com /articles/2004/11/09/sports/news05.prt   (380 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Danton issues statement denouncing family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
LOUIS (AP) — Mike Danton of the St. Louis Blues claims in his first public statement since being arrested on federal murder-for-hire charges that he was emotionally and physically abused during his childhood, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Danton's mother, brother and aunt were in the courthouse for Friday's hearing but he did not acknowledge them.
Danton, who grew up Mike Jefferson but legally changed his name two years ago, thanked Frost, his friends and the St. Louis Blues organization and players in his statement, and then criticized his family.
usatoday.com /sports/hockey/nhl/blues/2004-05-08-danton-statement_x.htm   (448 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Hockey - Danton accuses parents of abuse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
LOUIS - Mike Danton of the St. Louis Blues claims in his first public statement since being arrested on federal murder-for-hire charges that he was emotionally and physically abused during his childhood, a newspaper reported yesterday.
Danton called the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from jail Friday night and read a statement that focused on his relationship with his estranged parents, outlining allegations of "constant physical and emotional abuse" and saying he was raised in squalid conditions.
Danton was arrested April 16 in San Jose, Calif., a day after the San Jose Sharks knocked the Blues out of the playoffs.
www.nydailynews.com /sports/hockey/story/191641p-165670c.html   (435 words)

  
 Danton's arrest shocks Blues teammates - NHL - MSNBC.com
Danton was arrested at the airport in San Jose, Calif., after the Blues were knocked out of the playoffs by a loss to San Jose on Thursday.
According to the criminal complaint, Danton told Wolfmeyer that a hit man from Canada was coming to kill him and asked her if she knew someone who would kill the person for $10,000.
The complaint alleges that Danton was trying to kill a male acquaintance whom he had fought with Tuesday over Danton’s “promiscuity and use of alcohol.” The complaint said Danton feared the acquaintance, who is not named, would talk to St. Louis Blues management and ruin Danton’s career.
msnbc.msn.com /id/4766292   (864 words)

  
 Anderson: The story of St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton is troubling in many ways   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Police allege Danton conspired with a 19-year-old woman to have an acquaintance of Danton's killed.
Court documents indicate that Danton and the acquaintance had argued after the acquaintance threatened to go to the Blues and accuse Danton of excessive drinking and promiscuity, and that Danton feared for his career -- although teammates were quoted as saying Danton was not a heavy drinker.
A prevalent sidebar was a rehashing of the story of how Danton had become estranged from his family in Ontario, particularly his father, and had legally changed his last name from Jefferson a few years ago.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04114/305114.stm   (747 words)

  
 Agent: Blues' Danton was delusional
Federal authorities said Danton wanted the acquaintance killed after the two men argued over Danton's ''promiscuity and use of alcohol.'' Danton feared the acquaintance would ruin his career by going to the Blues' general manager, according to the FBI.
Frost was staying at Danton's apartment April 13 when they discussed his use of prescription drugs, and Danton begged Frost not to tell doctors about his problem, he told the newspaper.
Frost also described an incident when Danton awoke screaming in the middle of the night, convinced that someone was there with a gun.
www.suntimes.com /output/hockey/cst-spt-danton07.html   (349 words)

  
 Sports: Danton to plead innocent
Danton, arrested in San Jose, Calif., a day after the Sharks beat the Blues to eliminate them from the playoffs, remains in federal custody.
Thursday, a federal prosecutor said Danton was being brought back to Illinois to face the charges.
Danton and an alleged accomplice, 19-year-old Katie Wolfmeyer, of the St. Louis suburb Florissant, were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to arrange a murder for hire and using a telephone across state lines to arrange it.
www.sptimes.com /2004/04/24/news_pf/Sports/Danton_to_plead_innoc.shtml   (342 words)

  
 St. Louis Blues, Mike Danton, National Hockey League - CBS SportsLine.com
Danton also seeks to keep prosecutors from using evidence found at his suburban St. Louis apartment April 16, the day he was arrested.
The questioned audiotapes include Danton's messages with co-defendant Katie Wolfmeyer; his messages and talks with two would-be hit men; and clips from 79 conversations totaling about 1,000 minutes between Danton and Frost from a California jail, where Danton was held for 12 days after his arrest.
Danton, 23, is accused of persuading Wolfmeyer to hire a hit man to kill Frost.
www.sportsline.com /nhl/story/7359323   (506 words)

  
 Judge orders Danton to remain jailed - PittsburghLIVE.com
Danton's attorney, Bob Haar, had asked U.S. District Judge Michael Reagan to overturn a magistrate's ruling and allow Danton's release to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation and treatment of an injured shoulder until his July 20 trial.
Danton sat quietly through the four-hour hearing, but appeared to blink back tears as his lawyer recounted how Danton had talked of killing himself, and again as the judge announced his decision.
Danton's motive for deciding to have Frost killed was at least partly financial, Jimenez testified.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/s_195346.html   (460 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Hockey - Agent: Danton depressed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Danton's agent, however, said his client has been suffering from depression and other mental health problems, and denied the arrest was related to a fear of being outed as a gay man.
Danton has a turbulent background and has been estranged from his family, changing his name from Mike Jefferson to Danton in 2002.
According to the complaint, Danton told Wolfmeyer that a hit man from Canada was coming to kill him and asked her if she knew someone who would kill the person for $10,000.
www.nydailynews.com /sports/hockey/story/184919p-160306c.html   (631 words)

  
 Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director - Films - "Danton"
Danton was produced on commission from Gaumont, and originally was to be produced in Poland.
The logic of the revolution is very weakly presented, and there is no trace of the social forces which have driven those two sons of the revolution, Danton and Robespierre.
Andrzej Wajda's Danton invaded the "ZooPalast" and demonstrated to the Berlin audience a perfect union of film art and politics.
www.wajda.pl /en/filmy/film25.html   (868 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Video: Danton (1982)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Danton, another of the Revolution's leaders, still, is a very popular figure and has a lot of power.
Danton makes a moving argument, but in the end he, himself, is captured and executed.
Danton in the other hand is a visceral mass leader given to enjoy very earthly pleasures, but nonetheless a compromised revolutionary.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780021797?v=glance   (1595 words)

  
 Danton Burroughs Family Album
Danton Burroughs, grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs, was born into a world-famous, wildly creative family.
Danton was raised in Tarzana, California, in a world created by his illustrious grandfather and talented parents -- a magical world of jungles, distant planets, exotic lands, and inner earths in which heroes and villains larger than life leapt from books, comics, film, radio and movies.
Throughout his association with ERB, Inc., Danton has strived to make the Burroughs archives available to researchers, scholars, media personnel, and the countless fans who phone or even try to beat down the doors of the Burroughs offices on Ventura Boulevard.
www.erbzine.com /danton   (795 words)

  
 Danton, Georges Jacques on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Soon after the committee had eliminated the extremists under Jacques René Hébert, it turned upon Danton and the “Indulgents” or moderates.
On Mar. 30, 1794, Danton and his followers were charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government.
The trial was a mockery, and Danton was guillotined.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/danton-g1.asp   (434 words)

  
 Danton, Georges --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Georges-Jacques Danton was born on Oct. 26, 1759, in Arcis-sur-Aube, France.
It became a political force under the leadership of such men as Jean-Paul Marat and Georges Danton.
Maximilien Robespierre, a Jacobin leader, and Georges-Jacques Danton, who participated in Jacobin club debates, helped inaugurate the Reign of Terror that disgraced the revolutionary movement.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273913?tocId=9273913   (692 words)

  
 Players react to Danton's arrest - IceCats.com Fan Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Blues shocked by Danton's arrest This is the latest from the Associated Press, as Blues players react to the arrest of Mike Danton on conspiracy to commit murder charges.
The complaint alleges that Danton was trying to kill a male acquaintance whom he had fought with Tuesday over Danton's "promiscuity and use of alcohol." The complaint said Danton feared the acquaintance, who is not identified, would talk to St. Louis Blues management and ruin Danton's career.
I'd like to think people are bigger than that and look into the person as a person and as a teammate." Danton, formerly known as Mike Jefferson, was suspended twice for disciplinary reasons by the New Jersey Devils last season before being traded to St. Louis last June.
www.icecats.org /thread.html?thread_id=3581&messages=2   (995 words)

  
 Chicago Sun-Times: Agent: Blues' Danton was delusional
Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net.
ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Blues hockey player Mike Danton was delusional and using painkillers and sleeping pills in the hours before he allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill an acquaintance, Danton's agent said.
An alleged accomplice, 19- year-old Katie Wolfmeyer, has pleaded innocent and is free on $100,000 bail.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_200405/ai_n12547198   (413 words)

  
 Danton (1983)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Plot Summary: Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety...
I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Danton (1983)
www.imdb.com /title/tt0083789   (290 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.