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    "Manon" Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland was...
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    Jean Marie Roland and his wife Madame Roland. They also had an ally in the English-born American activist Thomas Paine. Brissot and Madame Roland were executed...
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    Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, better known simply as Madame Roland, the daughter of a Parisian engraver. Madame Roland was just as involved in Jean-Marie's work...
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    patriotic tax, was adopted by the National Convention in 1789. Madame Roland (aka Manon or Marie Roland) was another important female activist. Her political focus...
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    attendees. Such politicians as Malesherbes, Talleyrand, Madame Roland and her husband Roland de la Platière, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin (who...
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    biographies over the course of her 64-year career. She wrote biographies on Madame Roland and Napoleon. Tarbell believed that "the Truth and motivations of powerful...
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    Joe Roland (1920–2009), American jazz musician John Roland (1941–2023), American journalist Johnny Roland (born 1943), American football player Madame Roland...
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    of the interior, Roland, accused the commune of the atrocities. Charlotte Corday held Jean-Paul Marat responsible, while Madame Roland blamed Georges Danton...
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  • personality and entrepreneur Roland Van Campenhout (born 1944), Flemish blues musician, known mononymously as Roland Madame Roland (1754–1793), French revolutionary...
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    Orléans (6 November 1793), father of king Louis Philippe I Madame Roland (8 November 1793) Madame du Barry (8 December 1793) Jacques Hébert (24 March 1794)...
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  • baronne de Staal. Madame Roland was a salonnière, writer, and revolutionary. Roland moved to Paris in 1791 with her husband Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière...
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    then killed by mob outside the church. Madame Roland, wife of the Girondin Minister of the Interior Jean-Marie Roland, was interned here on her first arrest...
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    was executed in November 1793 during the Terror. Madame Roland, also known as Manon or Marie Roland, was another important female activist whose political...
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    them to women, she represented herself as a revolutionary citizen. Madame Roland also established herself as an influential figure throughout the Revolution...
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    clubs, and the executions of female activists such as the Girondin Madame Roland. The influence of Girondin ideas on Corday is evident in her words at...
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    or social origins. Unlike that of her fellow-Girondist hostess Madame Roland, Madame de Condorcet's salon always included other women, notably Olympe...
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    treason of the Austrian comity, a direct allusion to the Queen. After Madame Roland sent a letter to the King denouncing the Queen's role in these matters...
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  • Seine: The Life of Madame Roland is a biography written for children by Jeanette Eaton. It recounts the life story of Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière,...
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    contemporary female activists opposed his policies. Among those activists was Madame Roland who held salons for the Girondins, bourgeois republicans, around 1791...
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  • Orléans (6 November 1793); also known as Phillipe Égalité. Madame Roland (8 November 1793) Madame du Barry (8 December 1793) Jacques Hébert (24 March 1794)...
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    downfall. On 8 October, the Convention decided to arrest Brissot. Like Madame Roland and Pétion, Brissot was accused of organising (or taking part in) conspicuous...
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    name!": 87 : 140  ("O Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom!") — Madame Roland, French revolutionary and writer (8 November 1793), prior to execution...
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    Convention, and joined the Girondists under the influence of his friend Madame Roland. Buzot entered a polemic with the main rival of the Girondists, Jean-Paul...
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    Tuileries. After a few days, Robespierre decided to move in permanently. Madame Roland named Pétion de Villeneuve, François Buzot and Robespierre as the three...
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    number of women with a public role in politics were executed, including Madame Roland and Marie-Antoinette. The new Républicaine was the republican mother...
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    historical facts, such as those in "Chouans en déroute" (1883) and "Madame Roland à la prison Sainte-Pélagie" (1886). His paintings became highly appreciated...
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    Cook (29 March 1755 – June, 1823) - also known by the sobriquet Madame Roland or Dame Roland - was a British socialite and correspondent. Susannah was the...
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    and on 13 March asked for the confiscation of property of emigrants. Madame Roland, in her Memoirs, advanced very serious charges of duplicity. He entered...
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    was released in 1990. Some examples of female prison writers include Madame Roland (Paris, 1793), Krystyna Wituska (Berlin, 1942-44), Nawal El Saadawi...
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    Massacres. It is estimated that around 1,100–1,600 people were murdered. Madame Roland held Danton responsible for their deaths. Danton was also accused by...
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