Dare, dare again, always dare!
The words spoken by Georges Danton in the National Assembly in 1792, as good a motto for a political party as any.
The character was brilliantly portrayed by Gérard Depardieu in Andrzej Wajda's eponymous film of the 1980s. Although his nemesis Robespierre was equally brilliantly fleshed out by Wojciech Pszoniak.
The film drew parallels between the Reign of Terror and the then situation in Poland, in which Lech Wałęsa and the Solidarity movement were struggling against the military government of General Jaruzelski.
Well worth borrowing the dvd out of the library.
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