He came to finish his studies in law at Paris, and bought a place in parliament as a barrister, where he practised little and without any notoriety.

He despised chicanery; his mind and language had the proportions of the great causes of the people and the throne.

The Constituent Assembly began to stir them.

Danton, watchful and impassioned, was anxious to mingle with them: he sought the leading men, whose eloquence resounded throughout France.

He attached himself to Mirabeau; became connected with Camille Desmoulins, Marat, Robespierre, Petion, Brune (afterwards the marshal), Fabre d'Eglantine, the Duc d'Orleans, Laclos, Lacroix, and all the illustrious and second class orators who then "fulmined over" Paris.