The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1891-05-15
SlarIr Jeanne Iiplunl w;is thriirst to per+4
tlFe liint INV Revolution wtL3 r,I4NEU9


down to Il bottomless abyss carving All
yoice-~alas, too late to stay the storm.
The Girond!us, under the lead of FcrEnis
aud and Brissot, made heroic efforts 10
rally the friends OF order and to arrest the
heai!pug course OF rnGicalsm, tending
swiftly To tho Terror, but IL WAS all i'll
.ain. RobeSpierre stood of and mockcd
DAnton turned and denounced the pnaty 81
moderation ~ the secret friends Of tyranny.
MArAt croallcI like u hu!lfroH, full 81
venom splitting up from his cellar Naiuly
did Nine. Roland in her salon plead for hu
lnanity for the cessation Of strife, for tho
prevention Of the coming reign Of horror ani
blood Her husband was driven from tht
ministry. The king was hurried to the scat
fold. The Mountain turned with anger
and contempt upon the Gronde, and the
death grip followed. It WAS fearful
struggle chat, in which the weakened Spirit
OF Order, still! looking with compassion on
the world was seized by the dcInoliiac
Spirit Of Revenge and Terror.
All the world knows how the poor Gi
rontle, beautiful in despair, went to the
wall. Marie Jeautle Roland, like serene
soul, fitted from place to place, even to the
bar Of tile assembly, pleading and cxpostu=
hltitlg for her friends Bat with the lst Of
June, 1888, She, t40, was arrested and thrown
into the Abbaye prison As for her nus
bAud-perhups by her skillful planning
he escaped and fed to far t;ouen, where he
will presently free himself with his own
sword from world red with crime. Once
his wife managed to obtain her own liber,
lton. but was Immediately seized again
and hurried TO the Concicrgeric There
among the unfortunate and the fallen she
became more glorious than ever. Hioule,
her fellow prisoner, declares that some
thing more than was ever before seen il
the look OF woman painted itself in those
large black eyes of hers, full of sympathy
aud sweetness.
She spoke TO me often.'' says he, "at the
crate; we were all attentive around her i'll
sort of admiration and nstunishment
She expressed herself with u purity, with
a harmony and prusody that made her lam
guasc like music, of which the ear could
never have enough. Her conversation was
serious, not cold; coming from the mouth
of beautiful woman, it was frank and
courageous rs that OF a great man. But
her maid declares, Before you she collects
her strength, but in her own room she will
sit three hours sometimes, leaning on the
window and weeping
In that prison of the Conciergerie Nine.
Roland wrote her Immortal "Mcnoirs,"
that Appel 4 Ia PoStcritic which is as the
voice of a beautiful woman about +" be ey.
tinguishel forever in the black ness OF death.
q reader, pcruse those "Mcmoirs," and
think of her, the queenly revolutionist, the
white statue of serene beauty and nobility
of soul seen moonlke among the black
clouds of the Reign OF Terror. Her cohdem.
nation came swiftly. She goes uncomplain.
ingly to the guiliotne. On tho way she
has for her companion in the tumbrii the
aged Lamarchc, who had been director of
the government printing Him she com
forts in his despondency, thinking not OF
herself. Alighting from the cart, she bows
to the great statue of Liberty, saying aloud,
20 Liberty, what crimes nre committed IN
thy name!' The executioner would be-
head her first, but she insisted that La
marchc should be spared the horror of see.
ing her die.
The headsinan persists. He has his Or
ders. Surely" said the white spirit, you
cannot refuse the last request of a lady'
So he yielded, and Lamarche went up first
to his fate. AS he ascended she said to an
attendant, "Would that l might have u
pen to write down the thoughts that come
to me now" Thus, on the 9th Of Novcm-
Der, 1873, she died, with the eifulgence OF
quecnly beauty upon her, the aureole OF an
endless fame about her head
JOHN CLARK RIDrATu
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