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Madame Roland: A Biographical Study

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
By Ida M. Tarbell
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The biography traces a political woman's life from modest girlhood through marriage and social ambition to the establishment of a household and salon that becomes a political center. Using personal letters and family papers, it reconstructs domestic routines, intellectual networks, and the growth of her political engagement, including efforts to influence events, mounting disillusion with rival factions, a complex personal alliance with a political companion, arrest, imprisonment, execution, and the aftermath for her family and circle. The narrative blends private anecdote with archival documentation to illuminate character, motives, and the tensions between private life and public action.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Madame Roland at the Conciergerie—From a painting by Jules Goupil, now in the museum of Amboise Frontispiece
 
Madame Roland—From a cameo in the Musée Carnavalet Title
 
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The Place Dauphine in the Eighteenth Century 8
 
The Pont Neuf in 1895 40
 
Roland de la Platière—After the painting by Hesse 64
 
Le Clos de la Platière 96
 
Madame Roland—From the painting by Heinsius in the museum of Versailles 128
 
Madame Roland—After a crayon portrait owned by the family 152
 
Madame Roland—From a painting by an unknown artist in the Musée Carnavalet 192
 
Engraving of Buzot by Nargeot—After the portrait worn by Madame Roland during her captivity 224
 
Inscription written by Madame Roland on the back of the portrait of Buzot which she carried while in prison 240
 
The prison, called the Abbaye, where Madame Roland passed the first twenty-four days of her imprisonment 256
 
The Conciergerie in 1793—Prison where Madame Roland passed the last eight days of her captivity, and from which she went to the guillotine. Pont au Change in the foreground 288
 
Roland de la Platière—From a drawing by Gabriel 304