"He divides people: those who value heart and flair, against those who are good at adding up on their fingers, sucking their teeth and shaking their heads. If you condemn him you are, like Robespierre, more in sorrow than in anger." That's Hilary Mantel on George-Jacques Danton, from her fantastic review of a new Danton biography ("fantastic" here refers to the review rather than the book, which Mantel is somewhat iffy about) in the new London Review of Books.