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Madame Roland - Wikipedia. Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière ( Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland [note 1] was a French revolutionary, salonnière and writer.
Jeanne-Marie Roland was the wife of Jean-Marie Roland, who directed her husband’s political career during the French Revolution, greatly influencing the policies of the moderate Girondin faction of bourgeois revolutionaries.
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Madame Roland (1754-1793) was an influential female revolutionary, usually associated with the Girdonin faction. Born Marie-Jean Phlippon in Paris, she became an avid reader and a student of Enlightenment writers like Voltaire and Rousseau.
Manon Roland, née Jeanne Marie Phlipon 1 le 17 mars 1754 à Paris, et guillotinée le 8 novembre 1793 dans la même ville, est une salonnière et une personnalité politique française. Égérie des Girondins puis, plus tard, des Romantiques ; elle fut une des figures de la Révolution française et joua un rôle majeur au sein du parti girondin.
This book by Thomas Carlyle gives his personal account of Madame Roland, which must be interpreted by the reader as it depicts Roland as a very different woman from the one presented by her own memoirs.
Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Philipon, better known as Madame Roland, was born in Paris sometime in 1754. The only surviving child of a master engraver, she was born into an age of reason and wit, the France of the philosophes.
Marie-Jeanne 'Manon' Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland, was a French revolutionary, salonnière, and writer.
