Chapter XIV: Those Left Behind 303 (10)

Roland, Madame, first year of married life, 73–75;
at Amiens, 75;
her child, 75;
helping her husband on the _Encyclopédie_, 77;
absorbed in her domestic life, 78;
her efforts in Paris to secure a title for her husband, 79–84;
secures for her husband the position of inspector at Lyons, 84;
her correspondence with her husband while in Paris, 85, 86;
interest in Mesmerism, 85;
returns to Amiens, 85, 86;
trip to England, 86;
life at Villefranche-sur-Saône, 87 _et seq._;
her relations toward M. Roland’s mother and brother, 89, 90;
in correspondence with Bosc, 90;
not pleased with and not popular at Villefranche, 90, 91;
not pleased with Lyons, 92;
home life at Le Clos, 94, 99–111;
education of her daughter, 102;
her letters on Rousseau’s _Julie_ and the education of children,
103–108;
her devotion to her husband unabated during life at Le Clos, 108,
109;
her trip to Switzerland, 109, 110;
a sympathetic witness of preliminary outbreaks of the Revolution,
112, 117 _et seq._;
cramped for money after marriage, 120;
her idea of “complete regeneration” of social affairs, 124, 125;
her political convictions and plan of action, 125–133;
her influence over her husband and friends, 126–129;
her words after the fall of the Bastille, 129;
concerning the King’s and Marie Antoinette’s appearance in the
National Assembly, 129, 130;
displeased with the constitution, 130;
her firmness, 132;
detested in Lyons, 138;
her dissatisfaction with the National Assembly, 129–131, 138–142;
goes up to Paris, 138, 140;
her irritation at the aristocrats, 142;
gives up going to theatres, and goes to political clubs, 142, 143;
her words concerning Jacobins, 143;
her esteem for Brissot, 145;
her comments on the discussions of patriots that gathered at her
house, 146–148;
her words on the necessity of uniting efforts, 148, 149;
her supremacy over group of patriots around her, 149, 150;
her inflexibility, 150;
her personal charms, 150–152;
the portraits of, 152–154;
her joy at the flight of the King, 156, 157;
her words on the return of the King, 158;
endeavors to secure a trial of the King, 161, 162;
she loses heart, and returns from Paris to Villefranche, 164;
her disgust with Lyons, 165;
her disappointment in her child, 166;
decides to return to Paris, 166, 167;
her ideal of government unsatisfied, 169, 170;
her supreme confidence in herself, 170;
considered herself better than her husband, 170;
her feeling against the old régime, 170;
her attitude on her return to Paris, 176, 177;
her life and habits after her husband entered the Ministry of the
Interior, 179, 180;
her influence in choosing persons for positions in the department,
180, 181;
her mistrust of General Dumouriez and others, 181, 182;
doubts the good faith of the King, 183;
her measures to meet perils threatening Paris, 188 _et seq._;
she writes letter to the King concerning the perils, 190;
persuades her husband to publish the letter to the King, 197, 198;
meets Barbaroux, 201, 202;
her plan carried, 210;
her antipathy to Danton, 214–217;
her words concerning Robespierre, Marat, and Danton, 221, 222;
her disgust at the brutal turn of affairs in the Revolution, 222;
attacked by Marat, 222, 223;
would not compromise with the insurrectionary force, 223, 225;
her passion for Buzot, 224, 225, 227–244;
her first interest in Buzot, 227, 228;
her correspondence with Buzot, 228–230;
her disillusionment in regard to the Revolution, 230, 231;
her hope in Buzot, 231;
attracted by Buzot’s personal charms, 231, 232;
the waning of her affection for her husband and of her friendship
with Bosc, Lanthenas, and Bancal, 233;
her notions of duty and devotion, 234;
her relations with various friends during her life, 235–241;
influenced by the “new ideas” of love and marriage, she accepts the
love of Buzot, 242, 243;
she tells her husband of her love for Buzot, 243;
her relations to her husband thereafter, 244;
Danton’s words concerning, 245;
holds her place in the struggle, 251;
abused by Marat, 252;
her position compared with that of Marie Antoinette, 252;
appears before the Convention, 253;
danger to her life, 253, 254;
attempts to leave Paris, but falls ill, 258;
her vain endeavor to reach the Convention to plead her husband’s
cause, 259–261;
put under arrest, 261, 262;
her imprisonment in the Abbaye and Sainte Pélagie, 264, 265;
her fortitude in prison, 266, 267;
made a prominent actor in the public tragedy by her imprisonment,
267, 268;
her letters from prison to the Convention and to the ministers, 269,
270;
her conversation with a committee visiting her prison, 270, 271;
defending herself against accusations and calumnies, 271–273;
her “Last Thoughts,” 273, 284;
doubt as to the object of her passion alluded to in her last letters,
274;
her letters to Buzot from prison, 274–280;
would ultimately have left Roland for Buzot, 280;
her life and occupations in prison, 280–283;
her _Historical Notes_ written at the Abbaye prison, 283, 284;
her Memoirs and other writings, 284–289;
rapidity and ease with which she wrote, 285;
Rousseau’s _Confessions_ the model of her Memoirs, 287, 288;
her anguish and despair, 289, 290;
her words concerning Mirabeau, 290;
she resolves to kill herself, 291;
conveyed to the Conciergerie, 292;
refuses assistance from her friends, 292;
had hoped, during her imprisonment, for a popular uprising, 292, 293;
her life in the Conciergerie, 295, 296;
her second examination, 296–298;
her defence, 298;
her trial, 299, 300;
sentenced to death, 301;
her words to Chauveau-Lagarde, refusing his assistance as counsel,
299;
her trip to the guillotine, and death, 301, 302.
See Phlipon, Marie-Jeanne.

Roland de la Platière, M., 45;
his position and career, 47–51;
his character and disposition, 51, 52;
first acquaintance with Manon Phlipon, 53;
professes love for Manon Phlipon, 60;
Platonic arrangement with Manon, 61;
correspondence between Manon and, 61–69;
annoyances and obstacles in his love affair with Manon, 67–70;
marries Manon, 71;
the first year after his marriage, 73, 74;
his contribution to the _Encyclopédie méthodique_, 76, 77;
ambitious to obtain a title, 78, 79;
the general prejudice against, 81, 82;
his wife obtains for him the position of inspector of commerce at
Lyons, 84;
his letters to his wife while she was in Paris, 85, 86;
trip to England, 86;
his life at Villefranche-sur-Saône, 87 _et seq._;
his mother and brother, 88–90;
disliked in the Academy of Villefranche, 91;
the Abbé Guillon’s words concerning, 91;
his manuscripts in the archives of the Academy of Lyons, 92, 93;
home life at Le Clos, 94 _et seq._;
sympathized with preliminary outbreaks of the Revolution, 112 _et
seq._;
appreciated the financial errors of the French government, 113–116;
labors against the abuses of the realm, 120;
poverty after marriage, 120;
his wife’s influence over, 126, 127;
becomes embroiled in Lyons, 134–138;
detested in Lyons, 138;
goes to Paris as deputy to the National Assembly, 138;
his words concerning Jacobins, 143;
hard at work in Paris, 143, 144;
his zealous spirit, 144;
gathering of patriots at home of, 145–147;
pronounces the King “worse than a stick in a wheel,” 158;
his pamphlet on the “Advantages of the flight of the king, etc.,”
159;
his words on the riot in the Champ-de-Mars, 162, 163;
appointed to head of Department of Interior on Girondin ministry,
177–179;
pictured by the _Mercure_ as one of the principal agitators of Lyons,
178;
his life and duties as minister, 179, 180;
his formulas in reply to requests of departments that he suppress
disorders, 185–187;
his conduct exasperating, 188;
his letter to the King concerning the perils threatening Paris,
190–196;
discharged from the ministry, 197;
presents his letter to the Assembly, 197–199;
meets and plans with Barbaroux, 201–205;
everywhere upheld the Jacobin party, 211;
his great energy, 212;
hindered in activity by the Commune, 212–214;
at cross-purposes with Danton, 217;
antagonized Marat, 218, 219;
protests against the September massacres, 219–221;
orders Santerre to quell disorder, 221;
attacked by Marat, 222;
makes overtures to Dumouriez, 223;
Madame Roland informs him of her love for Buzot, 243;
resigns from the ministry, 245;
withdraws his resignation, 246;
his struggle against the Mountain party, 247;
his retirement, 254, 255;
neglected by the Convention, 254, 255, 258;
arrested, 259;
in concealment, 276;
his last days and death, 303–305.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, the prophet of the sentimental generation, 32;
his _Nouvelle Héloïse_ and its influence on Manon Phlipon, 32–35;
his _Émile_, 33, 34;
Manon Phlipon’s visit to, 55, 56;
his _Social Contract_, 125;
his _Confessions_ the model of Madame Roland’s Memoirs, 287, 288.

Sainte-Lettre, M. de, and Manon Phlipon, 44, 45.

Sainte Pélagie, the prison of, 281, 282.

Sanson, the headsman, and Madame Roland, 302.

Santerre, 206, 221.

Servan, in the ministry with Roland, 188, 189;
discharged from the ministry, 197.

Sévelinges, M. de, Manon Phlipon declines hand of, 46, 47.

Staël, Madame de, her words concerning Girondins, 173, 174.

Taxes, heavy previous to the Revolution, 113–116, 121, 122.

Tissot, his words concerning Madame Roland, 151.

Vergniaud, 201.

Villefranche-sur-Saône, 87 _et seq._;
the Church Notre Dame des Marais, at, 88;
disorders in the district of, 184.

Volfius, 145.

Williams, Miss, Bancal’s love for, 233, 241.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 4. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscript character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in curly braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}.