Danton #231999

There was no great difficulty about it; it would not be very difficult even now. In Spite Of the ruin wrought at Arcis sur-aube by Russian cannon in February I8I4, the scene described by Balzac in 1847 differs but little from that in which Jacques Danton spent his early years, to which he returned, several times over, to gather fresh strength, or escape the nightmares that assailed him. And to this day the little town presents much the same appearance.