Women & politics: Madame Roland.(figure in French Revolution)

New Criterion | October 1, 1999| | Copyright

I should need a Madame Roland as my reader.

--Stendhal

That unpunished vice, reading.

--Valery Larbaud

If anyone helps to overturn conventional notions about the role of women in politics in eighteenth-century France it is Marie-Jeanne (Manon) Phlipon, later Mme Roland (1754-1793). It was not simply the French Revolution of 1789 that inspired her concern with history, society, and the art of government. That interest was of long standing in a deeply studious young woman who loved reading, even works by the most difficult thinkers, and who ...

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