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
pronounces the King “worse than a stick in a wheel,” 158;
his pamphlet on the “Advantages of the flight of the king, etc.,”
159;
his words on the riot in the Champ-de-Mars, 162, 163;
appointed to head of Department of Interior on Girondin ministry,
177–179;
pictured by the _Mercure_ as one of the principal agitators of Lyons,
178;
his life and duties as minister, 179, 180;
his formulas in reply to requests of departments that he suppress
disorders, 185–187;
his conduct exasperating, 188;
his letter to the King concerning the perils threatening Paris,
190–196;
discharged from the ministry, 197;
presents his letter to the Assembly, 197–199;
meets and plans with Barbaroux, 201–205;
everywhere upheld the Jacobin party, 211;
his great energy, 212;
hindered in activity by the Commune, 212–214;
at cross-purposes with Danton, 217;
antagonized Marat, 218, 219;
protests against the September massacres, 219–221;
orders Santerre to quell disorder, 221;
attacked by Marat, 222;
makes overtures to Dumouriez, 223;
Madame Roland informs him of her love for Buzot, 243;
resigns from the ministry, 245;
withdraws his resignation, 246;
his struggle against the Mountain party, 247;
his retirement, 254, 255;
neglected by the Convention, 254, 255, 258;
arrested, 259;
in concealment, 276;
his last days and death, 303–305.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, the prophet of the sentimental generation, 32;
his _Nouvelle Héloïse_ and its influence on Manon Phlipon, 32–35;
his _Émile_, 33, 34;
Manon Phlipon’s visit to, 55, 56;
his _Social Contract_, 125;
his _Confessions_ the model of Madame Roland’s Memoirs, 287, 288.
Sainte-Lettre, M. de, and Manon Phlipon, 44, 45.
Sainte Pélagie, the prison of, 281, 282.
Sanson, the headsman, and Madame Roland, 302.
Santerre, 206, 221.
Servan, in the ministry with Roland, 188, 189;
discharged from the ministry, 197.
Sévelinges, M. de, Manon Phlipon declines hand of, 46, 47.
Staël, Madame de, her words concerning Girondins, 173, 174.
Taxes, heavy previous to the Revolution, 113–116, 121, 122.
Tissot, his words concerning Madame Roland, 151.
Vergniaud, 201.
Villefranche-sur-Saône, 87 _et seq._;
the Church Notre Dame des Marais, at, 88;
disorders in the district of, 184.
Volfius, 145.
Williams, Miss, Bancal’s love for, 233, 241.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
4. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscript
character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in
curly braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}.
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