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
Robespierre, at home of the Rolands, 145;
his words concerning a Republic, 160, 161;
criminal accuser, 171;
in open rupture with the Girondins, 189;
joins the Commune, 212, 221, 222;
Buzot’s opinion of, 247, 249.
Revolution, the French, the Rolands welcomed, 112 _et seq._;
preliminary outbreaks of, 117–120;
the word _révolution_ long used in private, 118;
call for States-General in 1788, 123;
the fall of the Bastille, 124;
disorders in Lyons, 134–137;
rumors of a Prussian and Russian invasion, 137;
the Revolutionary temper, 149;
the flight and return of the king, 156–159;
the massacre of the Champ-de-Mars, 162, 163;
disorders and riots everywhere, 183, 184;
the riot of the 20th of June, 199, 200;
the insurrectionary element organizing, 206, 207;
the Commune, 208, 212, 213;
the September massacres, 219–222;
the execution of the twenty-one Girondins, 290;
the daily life of Parisians during, 293, 294.
Roland, Eudora, daughter of Madame Roland, born, 75;
her husband Champagneux receives “conscience money,” 98;
her education by her mother, 102;
her life, 305–309;
her resentment toward her mother and admiration for her father, 308.
Roland, the _chanoine_, brother of M. Roland, 89, 140.
Roland, Madame, first year of married life, 73–75;
at Amiens, 75;
her child, 75;
helping her husband on the _Encyclopédie_, 77;
absorbed in her domestic life, 78;
her efforts in Paris to secure a title for her husband, 79–84;
secures for her husband the position of inspector at Lyons, 84;
her correspondence with her husband while in Paris, 85, 86;
interest in Mesmerism, 85;
returns to Amiens, 85, 86;
trip to England, 86;
life at Villefranche-sur-Saône, 87 _et seq._;
her relations toward M. Roland’s mother and brother, 89, 90;
in correspondence with Bosc, 90;
not pleased with and not popular at Villefranche, 90, 91;
not pleased with Lyons, 92;
home life at Le Clos, 94, 99–111;
education of her daughter, 102;
her letters on Rousseau’s _Julie_ and the education of children,
103–108;
her devotion to her husband unabated during life at Le Clos, 108,
109;
her trip to Switzerland, 109, 110;
a sympathetic witness of preliminary outbreaks of the Revolution,
112, 117 _et seq._;
cramped for money after marriage, 120;
her idea of “complete regeneration” of social affairs, 124, 125;
her political convictions and plan of action, 125–133;
her influence over her husband and friends, 126–129;
her words after the fall of the Bastille, 129;
concerning the King’s and Marie Antoinette’s appearance in the
National Assembly, 129, 130;
displeased with the constitution, 130;
her firmness, 132;
detested in Lyons, 138;
her dissatisfaction with the National Assembly, 129–131, 138–142;
goes up to Paris, 138, 140;
her irritation at the aristocrats, 142;
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