Madame Roland: A Biographical StudyTarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva)
History
Madame Roland: A Biographical Study
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva)
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; Roland, Madame, 1754-1793
Jacobins, too conservative for the Rolands, 143;
the Girondins join, 205.
Lafayette, Marquis de, 157, 200.
Lanthenas, and the Rolands, 127, 128, 216, 233, 237.
Le Clos, the country home of M. and Madame Roland, 94 _et seq._;
amusements at, 101;
Madame Roland’s life at, 99–111.
Louis Noailles, 145.
Louise, Madame, sister of Louis XVI., did not know her alphabet at
twelve, 10.
Louis XVI., appears with Marie Antoinette in the National Assembly,
129, 130;
his flight and return, 156–159;
“worse than a stick in a wheel,” 158;
efforts to secure a trial of, 161, 162;
accepts the constitution, 168;
names a cabinet to suit the Girondins, 178;
Madame Roland doubts the good faith of, 183;
hesitates to sign measure to raise army for protection of Paris
against foreign attack, 189;
Roland’s letter to, concerning the public perils, 190–199;
his words to Roland concerning the letter, 197;
the red cap placed on his head in the riot of the 20th of June, 200.
Lyons, M. and Madame Roland at, 91–93;
M. Roland’s manuscripts in the archives of the Academy of, 92, 93;
disorders in, 134–137;
rumors of a Prussian and Austrian invasion, 137;
the Rolands detested in, 138;
its devotion to the aristocracy, 165.
Mandat, murdered, 208.
Marat, joins the Commune, 212;
his character, 218;
and M. Roland, 218, 219;
attacks M. and Madame Roland in his journal, 222, 223;
his words concerning Buzot, 251;
his characterization of Madame Roland, 252.
Marie Antoinette, her appearance in the National Assembly, 129, 130;
her flight, 156.
Mesmer-study, 85.
Mirabeau, Madame Roland’s words concerning, 290.
Morris, Gouverneur, quoted, 163;
his words concerning the attitude of affairs in Paris, 177.
Mountain party, the, its character, 174–176;
M. Roland’s struggle against, 247;
Buzot’s struggle against, 247–249;
struggle of the Gironde party with, 255.
National Assembly, the, 124;
King and Marie Antoinette appear in, 129, 130;
Madame Roland’s dissatisfaction with, 129–131, 138–142;
M. Roland a deputy to, 138;
measure to raise army to protect Paris against attack of foreigners,
voted by, 189;
Roland’s letter to the King presented to the, 197–199;
Madame Roland appears before the Convention, 253;
struggle in, between the Mountain and Gironde parties, 255;
expulsion and trial of members of the Gironde, 259;
Madame Roland’s letter to, from prison, 269, 270.
Noailles, Louis, 145.
Notre Dame des Marais, the Gothic church at Villefranche, 88.
_Nouvelle Héloïse_, Rousseau’s, its influence on Manon Phlipon, 32–35.
Paine, Thomas, at the home of the Rolands, 146;
forms a republican society in Paris, 159.
Paris, gold and silver smiths in the western end of, 1;
measure to guard the city against attack of foreigners, 188 _et
seq._, 201;
life in, during the Revolution, 293, 294.
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