“The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.”

— Georg Büchner , Danton's Death

Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

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German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813–1837

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