The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-08
TODAY IN HISTORY
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1910.
Madame Roland GuIlIotIned.

Today, In 1893. In Paris. Madame Ro..
land was guillotined She was 9ne OF
her age. a child of poverty, she gradu,
ally grew TO distinction. until she wielded
for time the mighty scePter wnlcn
and finally to the guillotine. In the cause
Of reform she was the center OF all In
fiuence around which clustered those
mighty spirits which seemed Tor a time
TO control the dcstinies of France.
In early youth she showed signs OF
possessing great talent, P,ntarSns in
longing for the fame Of the great men
OF past ages. and at the age OF IA she
is said to have wept because sne was
At length the outburst cams.the
French struggle for liberty In 1850
soon TO degenerats into rHsniesS Str hms,ah ahi hd
Joined the Girondist party. M. Roland
became minister or the interior. Madame
Roland assisted him In drawing up on,
the celebrated warning letter to the King;
published in May. 1892, which occasioned
his dismissal.
lutionists. and Robespierre. Murat'
Danton and the rest became very bit
ter. particulaTIy, towards Madame d Roland,
were not considered safe and arrange
menis were made for them to sleep away
from their regular home s,sae5 Madama nf FS t6s
part ] am made TO play" she SAID. II
Will neither disguise myself or leave the
house. II they wish TO assassinate me-
The crisis came. On the slst OF May.
1893. she was arrested and cast into
prison--her husband being at the time
her liberty, or saw her husband, All
her jailers she converted into friends by
her fascinating name, manner ~ AND d. genera isIsne
hours in prison to the composition oil
her Memoirs"
same month. twenty of the leading
Glrondists-all personal friends OF the
Rolands-shared the same fate. And then
At the trial Madame Roland appeared
dressed carefully In white. with her
beautiful black hair descending to her
waist. Unmoved by the Insults 10 which
she was subjected by her brutal Judges.
she maintained unrufhed a dignifed de-
meanor which might have suited Ro-
a predetermined matter. and she was re-
morselessly condemned.
On the fatal day, and at the same
to be guillotined To die first on such
an occasion had become a sort OF privi-
lege among the wretched victims. as a
others die Madame Roland waived this
privilege in favor OF her less courageous
companion. The eXecutioner had orders
TO guillotine her before the man. but
she cntreated him not to show the i'm
politencss of refusing womans last re-
quest
AS she passed to the scaffold. she
gazed on a gigantic statue of liberty
erected near It. and exclaimed. 20
Liberty how many crimes are committed
In thy name"' The gulllotine then took
the life OF one who was. perhaps. the
most remarkable woman OF the French
revolution.
On November. s, 1919, Cortcz entered
Mexico. In 1851 Mason and Slideli were
Montana was admitted 10 the Union. To-
day is the birthday OF William Writ
attorney general under ]. Q. Adams
G772); Samuel a.. Foote. the Connccti-
Ing, author and diplomat US17: Annie
c, Ketcbum. poetess (1s2D; Major Cen
ereal o. o. Howard US3o); and the date
OF Louis VIII OF France G226); John
Milton. English poet and prose writer
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