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His companions called him Catiline he accepted the name, and sometimes played with them at getting up rebellions and riots, which he excited or calmed by his harangues as if he were repeating at school the characters of his after life. M. and Madame Ricordin, already advanced in years, gave him, after his education was finished, the small fortune of his father.
There is still to be seen near the river, without the city, in a pleasant spot, the house, half rustic half town built, and the garden on the banks of the Aube, where Danton's infancy was passed. His step-father, M. Ricordin, attended to his education as he would have done that of his own child.