He only asked the movement to raise him so high that he might subsequently control it.
He married Mademoiselle Charpentier, daughter of a lemonade-seller on the Quai de l'Ecole.

This young lady controlled him by her affection, and insensibly reformed him from the disorders of his youth to more regular domestic habits.

She extinguished the violence of his passions, but without being able to quench that which survived all others--ambition of a great destiny.
Danton lived in a small apartment in the Cour de Commerce, near his father-in-law, in rigid economy, receiving but a very few friends, who admired his talent and attached themselves to his fortunes.

The most constant were Camille Desmoulins, Petion, and Brune.

From these meetings went forth signals of extensive sedition.