INDEX
- Abbaye, Madame Roland imprisoned in the, 261 et seq.
- Antoine, 145.
- Assembly, National, see National Assembly.
- Barbaroux, and the Rolands, their plans, 202–205, 206;
- his fate, 309–311.
- Beaumarchais, his Figaro first given, 85;
- quoted, 121.
- Beugnot, Comte, his words concerning Madame Roland in prison, 296, 299.
- Buzot, François-Nicolas-Léonard, at the home of the Rolands, 145;
- Madame Roland’s passion for, 224, 225;
- his early career, 226, 227;
- attracts Madame Roland, 227;
- his nature, 228;
- correspondence with Madame Roland, 228, 230;
- his wife not his equal, 227, 230;
- his personal attractions, 231, 232;
- his love for Madame Roland, 230, 234, 242–244;
- his relations toward M. Roland, 244;
- his struggle against the Mountain party, 247–249;
- his opinion of Danton and Robespierre, 247, 249;
- in harmony with M. Roland, 249;
- his efforts to prove his patriotism, 250;
- could not approve the Terrorists, 250, 251;
- his relations with the Rolands well understood, 251;
- characterized by Marat as frère tranquille, 251;
- his words on the Republic, 255–257;
- flees from Paris to Evreux, 262, 263;
- Madame Roland’s letters to, from prison, 274–280;
- his last days and death, 309–311.
- Cannet, Henriette, offers to take Madame Roland’s place in prison, 292.
- Cannet, Sophie, Manon Phlipon’s friendship with, 12–15.
- Cercle Social, the, patriotic club, 142, 143.
- Chalier, sent home to Lyons by Roland “with honors,” 211.
- Champagneux, M., starts the Courrier de Lyon, 128;
- Champagneux, brother of above, husband of Eudora Roland, 98, 308.
- Champ-de-Mars, the massacre of, 162, 163.
- Chauveau-Lagarde, ambitious to defend Madame Roland in her trial, 299.
- Clavière, at the home of the Rolands, 145–147.
- Commune, the, 208;
- Conciergerie, Madame Roland imprisoned in the, 292, 295, 296.
- Condorcet, his pamphlet on “Whether a king is necessary to the conservation of energy,” 159.
- Constitution, the, formed by the Assembly and accepted by Louis XVI., 168, 169.
- Constitutionalist party, the, 174.
- Convention, National, see National Assembly.
- Conversation, French, character of, 147, 148.
- Creuzé-la-Touche, shelters Eudora Roland, 306.
- Dames de la Congrégation de Notre Dame, Convent, Manon Phlipon at, 9 et seq.;
- instruction given at, 10.
- Danton, at the head of the insurrectionary element, 205, 206, 214;
- Desmoulins, Camille, his inability to understand the general admiration for Madame Roland, 151, 152, 206.
- Dumas, Mathieu, his words on the publication of Roland’s letter to the King, 198.
- Dumont, his comment on Madame Roland’s persuading her husband to publish his letter to the King, 198.
- Dumouriez, General, Madame Roland’s distrust of, 181, 182;
- Roland made overtures to, 223.
- Encyclopédie méthodique, M. Roland’s contributions to, 76, 77.
- Faugère, M. P., and the Roland Memoirs, 308, 309.
- Feuillants, the, 176, 189, 201.
- Financial errors of the French government, 113–117, 121, 122.
- France, financial errors of the government, 113–117, 121, 122.
- Garaud, 146.
- Garran, 145.
- Genlis, Madame de, her lack of knowledge at twelve, 10.
- Gironde, the party of the, character and principles of, 171–176;
- Gluck, his Danaïdes first given, 85.
- Grandpré, his assistance to Madame Roland in prison, 269, 270.
- Grégoire, 146.
- Greuze, Manon Phlipon’s visit to, 57, 58.
- Guillon de Montléon, Abbé, his words concerning M. Roland, 91;
- Hannaches, Mademoiselle d’, and Manon Phlipon, 19, 20.
- Heinsius, his portrait of Madame Roland, 152, 153.
- Insurrection, party of the, 205–207.
- Jacobins, too conservative for the Rolands, 143;
- the Girondins join, 205.
- Lafayette, Marquis de, 157, 200.
- Lanthenas, and the Rolands, 127, 128, 216, 233, 237.
- Le Clos, the country home of M. and Madame Roland, 94 et seq.;
- Louis Noailles, 145.
- Louise, Madame, sister of Louis XVI., did not know her alphabet at twelve, 10.
- Louis XVI., appears with Marie Antoinette in the National Assembly, 129, 130;
- his flight and return, 156–159;
- “worse than a stick in a wheel,” 158;
- efforts to secure a trial of, 161, 162;
- accepts the constitution, 168;
- names a cabinet to suit the Girondins, 178;
- Madame Roland doubts the good faith of, 183;
- hesitates to sign measure to raise army for protection of Paris against foreign attack, 189;
- Roland’s letter to, concerning the public perils, 190–199;
- his words to Roland concerning the letter, 197;
- the red cap placed on his head in the riot of the 20th of June, 200.
- Lyons, M. and Madame Roland at, 91–93;
- Mandat, murdered, 208.
- Marat, joins the Commune, 212;
- Marie Antoinette, her appearance in the National Assembly, 129, 130;
- her flight, 156.
- Mesmer-study, 85.
- Mirabeau, Madame Roland’s words concerning, 290.
- Morris, Gouverneur, quoted, 163;
- his words concerning the attitude of affairs in Paris, 177.
- Mountain party, the, its character, 174–176;
- National Assembly, the, 124;
- King and Marie Antoinette appear in, 129, 130;
- Madame Roland’s dissatisfaction with, 129–131, 138–142;
- M. Roland a deputy to, 138;
- measure to raise army to protect Paris against attack of foreigners, voted by, 189;
- Roland’s letter to the King presented to the, 197–199;
- Madame Roland appears before the Convention, 253;
- struggle in, between the Mountain and Gironde parties, 255;
- expulsion and trial of members of the Gironde, 259;
- Madame Roland’s letter to, from prison, 269, 270.
- Noailles, Louis, 145.
- Notre Dame des Marais, the Gothic church at Villefranche, 88.
- Nouvelle Héloïse, Rousseau’s, its influence on Manon Phlipon, 32–35.
- Paine, Thomas, at the home of the Rolands, 146;
- forms a republican society in Paris, 159.
- Paris, gold and silver smiths in the western end of, 1;
- Pétion, at the home of the Rolands, 145;
- Phlipon, Madame, mother of Manon Phlipon, her character, 3;
- Phlipon, Marie-Jeanne, called Manon, afterwards Madame Roland, her parents, 2–6;
- her birth, 5;
- her character as a child, 5, 6;
- early reading and education, 6 et seq.;
- effect of Plutarch’s Lives on, 7, 8;
- her religions zeal, 9;
- enters the convent, Dames de la Congrégation de Notre Dame, 9, 10;
- her life and work there, 10–14;
- her friendship with Sophie Cannet, 12–15;
- her piety, 11, 12;
- her letters to Sophie Cannet, 14, 15;
- her secret resolve to return to convent life, 15;
- her dislike for the vanities of life, 16, 17, 20, 21;
- her love of nature, 17;
- Meudon her favorite spot, 17;
- her visit to Madame de Boismorel, 18, 19;
- her early contempt for the social conditions, 19–21;
- a secretary to Mademoiselle d’Hannaches, 20;
- makes an eight-day visit to Versailles, 21;
- her description of her impressions there, 22;
- her attitude toward the King and government at twenty years of age, 22–24;
- prefers a republic, 22, 23;
- her reading after leaving the convent, 24–26;
- her cahiers, 26;
- deeply interested in philosophy, 26, 27;
- studies Christian dogma severely and rationally, 27, 28;
- her mental and spiritual condition, 28–30;
- the influence of Rousseau’s Nouvelle Héloïse on, 31–35;
- her words concerning Rousseau and his works, 34, 35;
- her notions of a future husband, 35–38;
- applicants for her hand, 35, 36;
- her love affair with Pahin de la Blancherie, 38–44;
- her Loisirs, 40, 58;
- her interest in Sainte-Lettre, 44, 45;
- refuses M. de Sévelinges, 46, 47;
- her interest in Roland de la Platière, 45, 52, 53;
- her interest in M. Pittet, 54;
- the dulness of her life, 54;
- her visit to Rousseau, 55, 56;
- her visit to Greuze, 57, 58;
- her relations with her father, 58, 59;
- conceals from Sophie Cannet her feeling for Roland de la Platière, 60;
- Platonic arrangement with Roland, 61;
- correspondence between Roland and, 61–69;
- difficulty with her father in her betrothal to M. Roland, 67–69;
- leaves her father, and retires to the convent, 69, 70;
- marries Roland, 71;
- her account in her Memoirs of the courtship and marriage, 71, 72.
- See Roland, Madame.
- Phlipon, Pierre Gatien, his engraving shop, 2, 3;
- Pittet, M., Manon Phlipon’s interest in, 54.
- Plutarch’s Lives, effect of, on Manon Phlipon, 7, 8.
- Rebecqui, 202.
- Republic, excitement at the name of, 158–160;
- not welcomed by the people, 161.
- Republican, the, journal, 159, 160.
- Robespierre, at home of the Rolands, 145;
- Revolution, the French, the Rolands welcomed, 112 et seq.;
- preliminary outbreaks of, 117–120;
- the word révolution long used in private, 118;
- call for States-General in 1788, 123;
- the fall of the Bastille, 124;
- disorders in Lyons, 134–137;
- rumors of a Prussian and Russian invasion, 137;
- the Revolutionary temper, 149;
- the flight and return of the king, 156–159;
- the massacre of the Champ-de-Mars, 162, 163;
- disorders and riots everywhere, 183, 184;
- the riot of the 20th of June, 199, 200;
- the insurrectionary element organizing, 206, 207;
- the Commune, 208, 212, 213;
- the September massacres, 219–222;
- the execution of the twenty-one Girondins, 290;
- the daily life of Parisians during, 293, 294.
- Roland, Eudora, daughter of Madame Roland, born, 75;
- Roland, the chanoine, brother of M. Roland, 89, 140.
- 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;
- 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.;
- Volfius, 145.
- Williams, Miss, Bancal’s love for, 233, 241.