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
Pétion, at the home of the Rolands, 145;
a Girondin, 171;
counsels calm, 205, 208;
his fate, 309–311.
Phlipon, Madame, mother of Manon Phlipon, her character, 3;
her control over her daughter, 5;
her death, 31.
Phlipon, Marie-Jeanne, called Manon, afterwards Madame Roland, her
parents, 2–6;
her birth, 5;
her character as a child, 5, 6;
early reading and education, 6 _et seq._;
effect of _Plutarch’s Lives_ on, 7, 8;
her religions zeal, 9;
enters the convent, Dames de la Congrégation de Notre Dame, 9, 10;
her life and work there, 10–14;
her friendship with Sophie Cannet, 12–15;
her piety, 11, 12;
her letters to Sophie Cannet, 14, 15;
her secret resolve to return to convent life, 15;
her dislike for the vanities of life, 16, 17, 20, 21;
her love of nature, 17;
Meudon her favorite spot, 17;
her visit to Madame de Boismorel, 18, 19;
her early contempt for the social conditions, 19–21;
a secretary to Mademoiselle d’Hannaches, 20;
makes an eight-day visit to Versailles, 21;
her description of her impressions there, 22;
her attitude toward the King and government at twenty years of age,
22–24;
prefers a republic, 22, 23;
her reading after leaving the convent, 24–26;
her _cahiers_, 26;
deeply interested in philosophy, 26, 27;
studies Christian dogma severely and rationally, 27, 28;
her mental and spiritual condition, 28–30;
the influence of Rousseau’s _Nouvelle Héloïse_ on, 31–35;
her words concerning Rousseau and his works, 34, 35;
her notions of a future husband, 35–38;
applicants for her hand, 35, 36;
her love affair with Pahin de la Blancherie, 38–44;
her _Loisirs_, 40, 58;
her interest in Sainte-Lettre, 44, 45;
refuses M. de Sévelinges, 46, 47;
her interest in Roland de la Platière, 45, 52, 53;
her interest in M. Pittet, 54;
the dulness of her life, 54;
her visit to Rousseau, 55, 56;
her visit to Greuze, 57, 58;
her relations with her father, 58, 59;
conceals from Sophie Cannet her feeling for Roland de la Platière,
60;
Platonic arrangement with Roland, 61;
correspondence between Roland and, 61–69;
difficulty with her father in her betrothal to M. Roland, 67–69;
leaves her father, and retires to the convent, 69, 70;
marries Roland, 71;
her account in her Memoirs of the courtship and marriage, 71, 72.
See Roland, Madame.
Phlipon, Pierre Gatien, his engraving shop, 2, 3;
his character, 3, 4;
his home life and family, 4, 5;
displeased with Pahin de la Blancherie, 40;
his relations toward his daughter, 58, 59;
grows dissipated, 68;
his attitude toward M. Roland, 68, 69;
death, 140.
Pittet, M., Manon Phlipon’s interest in, 54.
_Plutarch’s Lives_, effect of, on Manon Phlipon, 7, 8.
Rebecqui, 202.
Republic, excitement at the name of, 158–160;
not welcomed by the people, 161.
_Republican_, the, journal, 159, 160.
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