Madame roland biography
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Madame Roland
French revolutionary
Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière | |
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Madame Roland in the Conciergerie, shortly before her execution | |
| Born | Marie-Jeanne Phlipon ()17 March Paris, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 8 November () (aged&#;39) Place de la Révolution, Paris, French First Republic |
| Occupation(s) | political activist, salonniere, writer |
| Spouse | Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
| Children | Eudora Roland de la Platière |
Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, &#; Paris, November 8, ), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland[note 1] was a French revolutionary, salonnière and writer. Her letters and memoirs became famous for recording the state of mind that conditioned the events leading to the revolution.
From a young age Roland was interested in philosophy and political theory and studied a broad range of writers and thinkers. At the same time she was aware that, as a woman, she was predestined to play another role in society than a man. After marrying the economist Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, she did develop with him a husband and wife team which made it possible for her to engage in public politics.
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Madame Roland
William Russell’s short biography of Madame Roland begins with a nightmare parade of the Terror that followed the French Revolution, in which Madame Roland stands out as “one white-robed figure in the doleful procession, with pale, bright, classic face, mantled with dark silken hair, and illumined by deep blue, transparent eyes, kindled to indignant flame by the hootings and curses of the multitude” (that is, a scenario that blends “light into darkness,” the heroine’s appearance, and a lady’s confrontation of the mob). This heroine’s sacrifice collapses into that of Marie Antoinette: the image “dwells in the gazer's memory long after it has disappeared from the scaffold still wet with the blood of a queen, and been flung, as carrion, into the common fosse at Glamart” (R 39). Wilmot-Buxton, too, interlinks Marie-Jeanne or Manon Philipon Roland and Marie Antoinette, the subject of her preceding chapter: “life-stories…so unlike…so absolutely opposed politically, become curiously intermingled…and in the end are merged into the same common fate” (WB ). The horrors of the Revolution stain the image of Madame Roland’s heroism, as they curdle Russell’s prose: her &
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