[Danton was produced in Paris in 1900.]
To My Father
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
ROBESPIERRE
DANTON
CAMILLE DESMOULINS
VADIER
BILLAUD-VARENNE
SAINT-JUST
HERMAN WESTERMANN
HÉRAULT DE SÉCHELLES
PHILIPPEAUX
FABRE D'EGLANTINE
FOUQUIER-TINVILLE
LUCILE DESMOULINS
ELÉONORE DUPLAY
MADAME DUPLAY
The People, Jury, Gendarmes, etc.
SCENE: Paris, March and April, 1794.
[Act I.] Desmoulins' home.
[Act II.] Robespierre's room.
[Act III.] The Revolutionary Tribunal.
[M. Rolland has suggested lines and "business" for The People in footnotes throughout Act III, but as these are not an integral part of the play and are intended rather as an aid to the producer, I have not deemed it necessary to incorporate more than half a dozen lines into the text.—THE TRANSLATOR.]I