Author: Madame Roland
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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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.
Author: Madame Roland
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Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Author: Marie-Jeanne Roland
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267870882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Excerpt from The Private Memoirs of Madame Roland F Plutarch did not, as M. Brunetiere some what fancifully asserts, make the French Revolution, his influence upon the generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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"As they fastened her to the fatal plank, her eyes fell on a colossal statue of liberty erected to celebrate the first anniversary of the 10th of August. 'O liberté, ' she cried, 'comme on t'a jouée.' Then the axe dropped, the beautiful head fell; Madame Roland was dead." -Ida Tarbell, Madame Roland Madame Roland (1896) is the second of several biographies that gained Ida Tarbell widespread acclaim. Born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, but best known under the name Madame Roland, the book's subject was a French revolutionary, salonnière, and writer, greatly admired for her strong intellect, political savvy, and skills at lobbying and negotiating.
Author: Lydia Maria Child
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: M. Roland
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Languages : en
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Author: Roland
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230351933
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... found it more profitable to feast upon a good poem than to starve myself with roots. In vain, some years after, did M. Roland, paying his addresses, endeavor to revive in me this ancient taste; we made, indeed, a great many figures; but the mode of deduction by X and Y was never sufficiently attractive to fix my attention. September 5. / cut the sheet to inclose what I have written in the little box; for when I see a revolutionary army decreed, new tribunals formed for shedding innocent blood, famine threatened, and the tyrants at bay, I augur that they must have new victims, and conclude that no one is secure of living another day. The correspondence with Sophie was still one of my chief pleasures, and the bands of our friendship had been drawn closer by several journeys which she had made to Paris. My susceptible heart had need, I will not say of an illusion, but of an object upon which to centre its affections, and especially of confidence and communication. Friendship offered them, and I cherished it with ardor. My relation with my mother, agreeable as it was, would not have supplied the place of this affection; it had too much of the gravity resulting from respect on the one part, and of authority on the other. My mother might have known everything; I had nothing to conceal from her, but I could not tell her all. To a parent one addresses confessions; one can really confide only in an equal. My mother, without asking to see the letters I wrote to Sophie, was pleased to have them shown to her; and our arrangement of this matter was not without its humorous side. We understood each other without a word having passed between us on the subject. When I heard from my friend, which I did regularly every week, I read to my mother a few...
Author: Lydia Maria Francis 1802-1880 Child
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781374437920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Author: Marie-Jeanne Roland
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ISBN: 9781539819912
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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This is the story of Madame Marie-Jeanne Roland, who with her husband, rose to a high position in the Girondist (more moderate than the opposing Jacobins) political party of the French Revolution. When the Jacobins took power with their extreme radical ideas, many Girondists were sent to the guillotine, Madame Roland among them. Her memoirs were written over a five month period while imprisoned in Paris. Supplementary material explores her romantic involvement with follow revolutionary, Leonard Buzot.
Author: Edward Gilpin Johnson
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781363740550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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