Author: Madame Roland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
On 1 June 1973 Madame Roland was arrested for her involvement in the French Revolution and on 8 November she went to the guillotine. During her 6 month imprisonment she wrote these memoirs. This is the first modern English translation. Approximately half of the pages concern the author's upbringing in a Parisian bourgeois family and her marriage to the bureaucrat Jean-Marie Roland de la Platiere; the remainder discusses the period from 1789 to 1793, when she and her husband were leaders of the Girondin party. Madame Roland was devoted to her spouse and always gave him full credit for work in which she was a full partner, including the inspection of manufacturers under the Old Regime and the post of minister of the interior during parts of 1792 and 1793. Her memoirs provide glimpses into the daily life of the period and sharp portraits of several revolutionary leaders. Scholars will wish to consult the complete French edition, but this book is perfect for general readers.
The Memoirs of Madame Roland
Author: Madame Roland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
On 1 June 1973 Madame Roland was arrested for her involvement in the French Revolution and on 8 November she went to the guillotine. During her 6 month imprisonment she wrote these memoirs. This is the first modern English translation. Approximately half of the pages concern the author's upbringing in a Parisian bourgeois family and her marriage to the bureaucrat Jean-Marie Roland de la Platiere; the remainder discusses the period from 1789 to 1793, when she and her husband were leaders of the Girondin party. Madame Roland was devoted to her spouse and always gave him full credit for work in which she was a full partner, including the inspection of manufacturers under the Old Regime and the post of minister of the interior during parts of 1792 and 1793. Her memoirs provide glimpses into the daily life of the period and sharp portraits of several revolutionary leaders. Scholars will wish to consult the complete French edition, but this book is perfect for general readers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
On 1 June 1973 Madame Roland was arrested for her involvement in the French Revolution and on 8 November she went to the guillotine. During her 6 month imprisonment she wrote these memoirs. This is the first modern English translation. Approximately half of the pages concern the author's upbringing in a Parisian bourgeois family and her marriage to the bureaucrat Jean-Marie Roland de la Platiere; the remainder discusses the period from 1789 to 1793, when she and her husband were leaders of the Girondin party. Madame Roland was devoted to her spouse and always gave him full credit for work in which she was a full partner, including the inspection of manufacturers under the Old Regime and the post of minister of the interior during parts of 1792 and 1793. Her memoirs provide glimpses into the daily life of the period and sharp portraits of several revolutionary leaders. Scholars will wish to consult the complete French edition, but this book is perfect for general readers.
Madame Roland and the Age of Revolution
Author: Gita May
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231033794
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231033794
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Private Memoirs of Madame Roland
Author: Madame Roland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution
Author: Harriet Branson Applewhite
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064137
Category : Revolutions
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Comparative historical investigations of gender and political culture in 18th- and 19th-century revolutionary movements
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064137
Category : Revolutions
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Comparative historical investigations of gender and political culture in 18th- and 19th-century revolutionary movements
Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism
Author: Lisa Beckstrand
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838641927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
"Despite critical interest in the role of women in the French Revolution, there is no single, comprehensive study of the works of the two most prolific women writers of the period: Olympe de Gouges and Manon Roland. At a time when politicians were molding public policy concerning life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and constituting criteria for citizenship, increasing numbers of women in Paris were clamoring for rights. New medical and philosophical theories redefining female nature were trotted out to justify women's continued exclusion from full political participation. Such theories focused on the female body as the locus of women's intellectual inadequacies and promulgated the idea that women who acted outside of the confines of their physiological nature were considered desensitized and unfeminine. "Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism" aims to uncover the work of those women who challenged prevailing views of female nature, sought social reforms, and were deemed 'deviant' for their writing and/or activism during the French Revolution."--Jacket.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838641927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
"Despite critical interest in the role of women in the French Revolution, there is no single, comprehensive study of the works of the two most prolific women writers of the period: Olympe de Gouges and Manon Roland. At a time when politicians were molding public policy concerning life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and constituting criteria for citizenship, increasing numbers of women in Paris were clamoring for rights. New medical and philosophical theories redefining female nature were trotted out to justify women's continued exclusion from full political participation. Such theories focused on the female body as the locus of women's intellectual inadequacies and promulgated the idea that women who acted outside of the confines of their physiological nature were considered desensitized and unfeminine. "Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism" aims to uncover the work of those women who challenged prevailing views of female nature, sought social reforms, and were deemed 'deviant' for their writing and/or activism during the French Revolution."--Jacket.
Marriage and Revolution
Author: Siân Reynolds
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199560420
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A double biography of Jean-Marie Roland and Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, later Madame Roland, leading figures in the French Revolution.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199560420
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A double biography of Jean-Marie Roland and Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, later Madame Roland, leading figures in the French Revolution.
Blood Sisters
Author: Marilyn Yalom
Publisher: Pandora Press
ISBN: 9780044409182
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history. Yalom focuses on the most unforgettable chronicles: the governess of the royal children; the servant attending Marie-Antoinette in her last days; Robespierre's sister, Charlotte; and others bound together by a common nightmare.
Publisher: Pandora Press
ISBN: 9780044409182
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history. Yalom focuses on the most unforgettable chronicles: the governess of the royal children; the servant attending Marie-Antoinette in her last days; Robespierre's sister, Charlotte; and others bound together by a common nightmare.
Jacobin Republic Under Fire
Author: Paul R. Hanson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
It is time for a major work of synthetic interpretation, and this is what The Jacobin Republic Under Fire offers.".
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
It is time for a major work of synthetic interpretation, and this is what The Jacobin Republic Under Fire offers.".
The French Revolution
Author: Hippolyte Taine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Revolutionary Ideas
Author: Jonathan Israel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 883
Book Description
How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution’s intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution. In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas—not their fulfillment.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 883
Book Description
How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution’s intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution. In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas—not their fulfillment.