Georges Jacques Danton (1759-1794), a member of the Lodge of the Nine Sisters at Paris, was a French revolutionary leader who advocated a unified France and stable republican government. Caught up in the "Reign of Terror," Danton went to prison and the guillotine at the order of the dictator Robespierre. As Brother Danton's tumbrel carried him to his execution, it rolled past Robespierre's house with Danton shouting insults at the tyrant and predicting he would also be executed... which he was. When the executioner took him up to the guillotine, Danton turned to him and uttered some of history's most famous last words, "You will show my head to the crowd: It is worth seeing."
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