
The Private Memoirs of Madame Roland
Manon Roland(Author)
Edward Gilpin Johnson(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 27. July 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
422 pages
978-1-108-07730-9 (ISBN)
Description
This 1901 work is itself a reissue of an English translation published two years after Manon Roland fell victim to the guillotine. Her memoirs, justificatory of her own and other Girondists' roles in the French Revolution, were written in prison and smuggled out to a friend, the botanist Louis Augustin Bosc, who published them in 1795 as the Terror abated; the English version appeared in the same year. Born Marie-Jeanne Phlippon in 1754, she married the businessman and radical philosopher Jean-Marie Roland (1734-93), assisted him in his writings, and developed an influential salon attended by the subsequent leaders of the revolution. However, their relatively moderate views led them to abandon the Jacobins, and Madame Roland was arrested in 1793, charged with treason, and executed on 8 November. This remarkable work by the most influential woman of the revolution reflects a life lived at the centre of turbulent events.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
19 Plates, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
592 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-07730-9 (9781108077309)
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Content
Preface; Introduction; 1. The private memoirs of Madame Roland (1); 2. The private memoirs of Madame Roland (2); 3. The private memoirs of Madame Roland (3); 4. Supplementary sketch; 5. Detached notes; 6. Madame Roland's farewell; Editor's note; Index.