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  1. Madame Roland. 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. Her letters and memoirs became famous for recording the state of mind that conditioned the events ...

  2. Apr 18, 2024 · Jeanne-Marie Roland (born March 17, 1754, Paris, France—died November 8, 1793, Paris) 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. Jeanne-Marie Phlipon was the daughter of a Paris ...

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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. In 1781 she married Jean-Marie Roland, a successful businessman and economist from Lyon. In 1791 Jean ...

  4. Madame Roland. Marie-Jeanne Roland (1754-1793) was a French writer and political figure, who presided over a salon and was influential in her husband's career during the early years of the French Revolution until she was arrested and executed for treason. Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Philipon, better known as Madame Roland, was born in Paris sometime ...

  5. Madame Roland. (m. 1780; died 1793) . 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. Initially she led a quiet and unremarkable life as a provincial intellectual with her ...

  6. —Madame Roland. The year 1776 was a busy one for Madame Roland, and she anonymously entered one of the numerous literary competitions sponsored by the intellectual discussion groups of the day. The Academy of Besançon sponsored an essay contest in which the question was whether the education of women could make men better citizens.

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  8. May 7, 2024 · Manon Roland. Puritan Girl. 1903. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Manon Roland was born in Paris on March 17, 1754 as Jeanne-Marie Phlipon. She died on November 8, 1793 on the guillotine after five months of imprisonment. She was precocious and clever, and like Madame de Staël, she was an avid enthusiast of enlightenment ...

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