Madame Roland: A Biographical StudyTarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva)
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Madame Roland: A Biographical Study
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva)
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; Roland, Madame, 1754-1793
Champagneux, M., starts the _Courrier de Lyon_, 128;
in constant correspondence with the Rolands, 155;
arrested, 284.
Champagneux, brother of above, husband of Eudora Roland, 98, 308.
Champ-de-Mars, the massacre of, 162, 163.
Chauveau-Lagarde, ambitious to defend Madame Roland in her trial, 299.
Clavière, at the home of the Rolands, 145–147.
Commune, the, 208;
and M. Roland, 212, 213;
vigorous action of, 212.
Conciergerie, Madame Roland imprisoned in the, 292, 295, 296.
Condorcet, his pamphlet on “Whether a king is necessary to the
conservation of energy,” 159.
Constitution, the, formed by the Assembly and accepted by Louis XVI.,
168, 169.
Constitutionalist party, the, 174.
Convention, National, see National Assembly.
Conversation, French, character of, 147, 148.
Creuzé-la-Touche, shelters Eudora Roland, 306.
Dames de la Congrégation de Notre Dame, Convent, Manon Phlipon at, 9
_et seq._;
instruction given at, 10.
Danton, at the head of the insurrectionary element, 205, 206, 214;
Madame Roland’s antipathy to, 214–217;
the only mediator between the Gironde and the Mountain parties, 215;
his brutality, 217, 222;
“the one man who could support the Gironde, save the King and his
country,” 223;
his words concerning Madame Roland, 245;
Buzot’s opinion of, 247, 249.
Desmoulins, Camille, his inability to understand the general admiration
for Madame Roland, 151, 152, 206.
Dumas, Mathieu, his words on the publication of Roland’s letter to the
King, 198.
Dumont, his comment on Madame Roland’s persuading her husband to
publish his letter to the King, 198.
Dumouriez, General, Madame Roland’s distrust of, 181, 182;
Roland made overtures to, 223.
_Encyclopédie méthodique_, M. Roland’s contributions to, 76, 77.
Faugère, M. P., and the Roland Memoirs, 308, 309.
Feuillants, the, 176, 189, 201.
Financial errors of the French government, 113–117, 121, 122.
France, financial errors of the government, 113–117, 121, 122.
Garaud, 146.
Garran, 145.
Genlis, Madame de, her lack of knowledge at twelve, 10.
Gironde, the party of the, character and principles of, 171–176;
Madame de Staël’s words concerning, 173;
its attitude toward the Mountain and constitutionalist parties,
174–176;
the Girondin ministry, 178;
join the Jacobins, 205;
struggle between the Mountain party and, 255;
expulsion and trial of twenty-two members of, 259;
twenty-one executed, 290.
Gluck, his _Danaïdes_ first given, 85.
Grandpré, his assistance to Madame Roland in prison, 269, 270.
Grégoire, 146.
Greuze, Manon Phlipon’s visit to, 57, 58.
Guillon de Montléon, Abbé, his words concerning M. Roland, 91;
his words concerning Madame Roland, 150, 151.
Hannaches, Mademoiselle d’, and Manon Phlipon, 19, 20.
Heinsius, his portrait of Madame Roland, 152, 153.
Insurrection, party of the, 205–207.
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