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The king, anticipating yet another crisis, and unpleased with the letter’s tone dismissed his Girondin administration with Roland, Claviere and Servan. Russell appears eager to get to the climax of execution:

At length, on the 9th November, 1793, Madame Roland stood before Fouquier Tinville's tribunal; was not, of course, permitted to be heard, and received sentence, which, upon returning to the prison, she communicated to her fellow captives by passing her hand sharply across her throat.

After the fall of the monarchy and with the king’s arrest on August 10, Roland gained back his position as Minister of the Interior; however, the Girondins’ influence was weakening. shall I, who have lived with Plato; with all the philosophers, unite myself with a shopkeeper!" Russell compares various descriptions of Manon’s beauty, “with considerable diversity of colouring….

Once in Paris, one of her admirers, Bosc d’Antic, helped the couple to find lodging. She regarded Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de as a political rival and her hostility had been considered a significant source of the divide between Girondins and Montagnards. She believed that to be true to France and its future, she must be in the center of the action, unyielding and steadfast, willing and ready to give her life for the good of her country.

A child given to religious raptures, she turned her passions in more “natural channels,” friendships with another girl pupil and a lay nun (WB 142). After learning the news of her death, her husband stabbed himself with a sword. Manon recalled taking offense at the patronizing treatment of grandes dames and the familiarity of servants when she was taken on visits to great houses.

The Ministry of the Interior was given to Roland thanks to Brissot’s friendship and more specifically to the friendship between Brissot, Jacques Pierre and Madame Roland. When Manon “hardened herself and declared amidst sobs and tears that she would try no more to swallow it,” the father whipped her the second time. The defection to the Austrians of General Dumouriez who was a great Girondin supporter contributed to their decline.

In an attempt to stop the looming calamity, Louis XVI called on Dumouriez to choose the new ministers. Her father was a master-engraver. Roland was twenty years older, grim, morose, and anxious; he worked as an Inspector of Commerce. In the midst of her youthful studies she heard the sound of the muttering thunder which preceded the great storm of the French Revolution, and the condition of the people occupied her thoughts more and more, as she noted the violent contrast of their miserable poverty to the state and magnificence of their rulers.

In 1779 she married M.

Roland, a manufacturer of Lyons, and her life was uneventful until the Revolution broke out ten years later. The pen-and-ink sketch drawn by her own hand is a curious specimen of self-painting:—‘I am five feet five inches in height, have a well-made leg, and my foot is well set on; my chest is broad and nobly decorated.

No single feature, perhaps, is strictly beautiful, but taken together could not but please. Realizing that the man was significantly more distressed than she was she asked the executioner to break away from usual practice. She went to the scaffold the same day with another man, Lamarche. Her antipathies and rage for Danton, Georges was undoubtedly the biggest of her mistakes.

Guy Toubiana

The Citadel