Editing Georges Danton (section)

==Fictionalized accounts==
[[File:Fréderic Cazenave - The Optical Viewer - 1939.171 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif|thumb|A print of Danton's son, using an optical viewer, with his stepmother]]
* Danton's last days were made into a play, ''Dantons Tod'' (''[[Danton's Death]]''), by [[Georg Büchner]].
** The play formed the basis of the 1921 German film ''[[Danton (1921 film)|Danton]]''.
** On the basis of Büchner's play, [[Gottfried von Einem]] wrote an opera with the same title, on a libretto by himself and [[Boris Blacher]], which premiered on 6 August 1947 at the [[Salzburger Festspiele]].
* Danton, Robespierre, and Marat are characters in [[Victor Hugo]]'s novel ''[[Ninety-Three]]'' (Quatrevingt-treize), set during the [[French Revolution]].
* Danton is a central character in Romanian playwright [[Camil Petrescu]]'s play of the same name.
* Danton appears in the Hungarian play ''[[The Tragedy of Man]]'' and the animated movie of the same name as one of Adam's incarnations throughout Lucifer's illusion.
* Danton's and Robespierre's quarrels were turned into a 1983 film, ''[[Danton (1983 film)|Danton]]'', directed by [[Andrzej Wajda]]. The film itself is loosely based on [[Stanisława Przybyszewska]]'s 1929 play ''Sprawa Dantona'' ("[[The Danton Case]]").
* Danton's and Robespierre's relations were also the subject of an opera by American composer [[John Eaton (composer)|John Eaton]], ''Danton and Robespierre'' (1978).
* Danton is extensively featured in ''[[La Révolution française (film)|La Révolution française]]'' (1989).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098238/ |title=La révolution française |date=25 October 1989 |via=IMDb |access-date=29 June 2018 |archive-date=14 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214004633/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098238/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In his novel ''Locus Solus'', [[Raymond Roussel]] tells a story in which Danton makes an arrangement with his executioner for his head to be smuggled into his friend's possession after his execution. The nerves and musculature of the head ultimately end up on display in the private collection of Martial Canterel, reanimated by special electrical currents and showing a deeply entrenched disposition toward oratory.
* The Revolution as experienced by Danton, Robespierre, and Desmoulins is the central focus of [[Hilary Mantel]]'s novel ''[[A Place of Greater Safety]]'' (1993).
* Danton and Desmoulins are the main characters of [[Tanith Lee]]'s ''The Gods Are Thirsty{{snd}}A Novel of the French Revolution'' (1996).
* Danton and Robespierre are briefly referred to in the book ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]''. The two men both applaud a guard for his work in catching aristocrats.
* In ''The Tangled Thread'', Volume 10 of ''[[The Morland Dynasty]]'', a series of historical novels by author [[Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]], the character Henri-Marie Fitzjames Stuart, bastard offshoot of the fictional Morland family, allies himself with Danton in an attempt to protect his family as the storm clouds of revolution gather over France.
* Danton appears briefly in [[Rafael Sabatini]]'s adventure novel ''Scaramouche: A tale of romance in the French Revolution''.
* Danton appears in a series of comics entitled "The Last Days of Georges Danton" in ''Step Aside, Pops: A [[Hark! A Vagrant]] Collection'' by [[Kate Beaton]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Beaton|first=Kate|title=Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection|year=2013|publisher=Drawn and Quarterly|location=Canada|isbn=978-1-77046-208-3|pages=37–39}}</ref>
* Danton is one of six point-of-view characters in [[Marge Piercy]]'s novel ''City of Darkness, City of Light'' (1996).
* Danton, along with [[Jean-Paul Marat|Marat]] and Robespierre, is a secondary character in the 1927 epic ''[[Napoléon (1927 film)|Napoléon]]''. His portrayal in the film is somewhat cartoonish, as he is depicted as a decadent fop, albeit dedicated to republicanism and revolution, and it is he that allows [[Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle|Rouget de Lisle]] to premiere "[[La Marseillaise]]" at the [[Cordeliers|Club des Cordeliers]]. (In reality, no such performance by Rouget de Lisle is known to have taken place.)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018192/|title=Napoleon|date=1927|via=IMDb|access-date=31 August 2018|archive-date=22 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822013034/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018192/|url-status=live}}</ref>