Roland, Marie-Jeanne - Brigitte Szymanek (essay date spring 1996)
Brigitte Szymanek (essay date spring 1996)
SOURCE: Szymanek, Brigitte. “French Women's Revolutionary Writings: Madame Roland or the Pleasure of the Mask.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15, no. 1 (spring 1996): 99-122.
[In this essay, Szymanek looks at the conflicting accounts of appropriate feminine behavior Roland presents in her memoirs and letters.]
Quoi! ce héros fut donc vraiment une femme?”
(What! This hero was really a woman then?)1
On November 8, 1793, the members of the Revolutionary Tribunal ordered the execution of Marie-Jeanne Phlipon Roland, the wife of former Girondist Minister of the Interior, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière. She was accused of conspiring with her husband to propagate “antirevolutionary” ideas through a so-called “Office of Public Opinion,” a patriotic educational program initiated by Roland and the...
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