Outlines of the French Revolution Told in Autographs
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He became a member of the Convention, resigning the Ministry Jan. 23, 1793. Accused, March 31, he escaped to Rouen. On hearing of his wife's death, he stabbed himself with a sword-cane. A. L. S., to Bosc. P. I. 308. ROLAND (Manon-Jeanne-Phlipon) Madame. Born at Paris, March 17, 1754; guillotined at Paris, Nov. 8, 1793. When she was 26 she married Roland, then 48 years of age. In 1791, coming to Paris, she opened her salon, where congregated some of the most influential members of the Assembly a...nd after- ward of the Convention, forming the party of the Girondins. She was called the " soul " of that party in its contest against the Mountain and the Paris Commune; she was arrested May 13, 1793, and imprisoned in the Abbay6; on June 24 she was placed in Saint Pelagie, and on Oct. 31 she was taken to the Conciergerie ; she was tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal on Nov. 8, 1793, and condemned; executed the same day; in passing the statue of Liberty, on the site where once stood that of Louis XV, she exclaimed: Liberie, comme on t'a jouee!
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