The Life of a Young Lad

Danton was a clever young lad. His mother sent him off to a nearby seminary when he was 12. But after briefly enduring the tedious routine of the church, he came home from a break and more or less refused to go back. So his mother looked around and landed donton in a school run by the oratorians. It was there that danton first discovered the classical writers who would become his heroes - most especially cicero. Though he excelled at public speaking and had a memory like a steel trap, he was no good at writing. And he struggled to make sense of words on a page. In short, danton was probably disalecic.