Madame Roland | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Madame Roland


00:02:36 1 Early years
00:02:45 1.1 Childhood
00:04:25 1.2 Studying and writing
00:06:20 2 Before the revolution
00:06:30 2.1 Marriage
00:09:03 2.2 Amiens and Lyon
00:11:59 3 The Revolution
00:12:08 3.1 From a distance: 1789 - 1791
00:15:34 3.2 Activist and salonniere
00:18:26 3.3 Political ideas
00:19:26 4 In power: the Ministry of the Interior
00:19:37 4.1 Revolution gathering speed
00:21:46 4.2 First term of office
00:23:47 4.3 Second term of office
00:26:47 5 Downfall
00:26:56 5.1 Fall of the girondins
00:30:11 5.2 Imprisonment
00:32:18 5.3 Trial and execution
00:34:38 6 Legacy
00:34:47 6.1 Memoirs and letters
00:38:14 6.2 History
00:39:15 6.3 Women's studies
00:41:05 6.4 In art
00:41:58 7 Publications
00:42:36 8 External sources
00:42:52 9 Notes, sources and references



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Marie-Jeanne '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 a French revolutionary, salonnière and writer.
Initially she led a quiet and unremarkable life as a provincial intellectual with her husband, the economist Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière. Only when the French Revolution broke out in 1789 did she become interested in politics. She spent the first years of the revolution in Lyon, where her husband was elected to the city council. During this period Madame Roland developed a network of contacts with politicians and journalists. Her analyses of developments in Lyon were published in revolutionary newspapers.
In 1791 the couple settled in Paris, where Madame Roland soon established herself as a leading figure within the political group the Girondins, one of the more moderate revolutionary factions. She was known for her intelligence, astute political analyses and her tenacity, and was a good lobbyist and negotiator. The salon she hosted in her home several times a week was an important meeting place for politicians. However, she was also convinced of her own intellectual and moral superiority and alienated important political leaders like Robespierre and Danton.
Unlike the feminist revolutionaries Olympe des Gouges and Etta Palm, Madame Roland was not an advocate for political rights for women. She believed that women should play a very modest role in public and political life. Already during her lifetime, many found this difficult to reconcile with her own active involvement in politics and her important role within the Girondins.
When her husband unexpectedly became Minister of the Interior in 1792, her political influence grew. She had control over the content of ministerial letters, memorandums and speeches, was involved in decisions about political appointments, and was in charge of a bureau set up to influence public opinion in France. She was both admired and reviled, and particularly hated by the sans-culottes of Paris. The publicists Marat and Hébert conducted a smear campaign against Madame Roland as part of the power struggle between the Girondins and the more radical Jacobins and Montagnards. In June 1793, she was the first Girondin to be arrested during the Terror and was guillotined a few months later.
Madame Roland wrote her memoirs while she was imprisoned in the months before her execution. They are - like her letters - a valuable source of information about the first years of the French Revolution.