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Blind Mathilde. Madame Roland
Madame Roland
Table of Contents
Madame Roland
LIST OF AUTHORITIES
CHAPTER I.—Childhood
CHAPTER II.—Sophie
CHAPTER III.—Two Queens
CHAPTER IV.—Mother and Daughter
CHAPTER V.—Manon’s Suitors
CHAPTER VI.—Flight to the Convent, and Marriage
CHAPTER VII.—The Clos de la Platière.—Trips To England and Switzerland
CHAPTER VIII.—France before the Revolution
CHAPTER IX.—The Rights of Man
CHAPTER X.—Madame Roland reveals Herself
CHAPTER XI.—The Roland Administration
CHAPTER XII.—Dies Iræ
CHAPTER XIII.—The Republic
CHAPTER XIV.—Madame Roland at the Bar of The Convention
CHAPTER XV.—Struggle between Mountain and Gironde
CHAPTER XVI.—Fling us into the Abyss
CHAPTER XVII.—Love in a Prison
CHAPTER XVIII.—In Outlawry
CHAPTER XIX.—Ave Libertas Morituri te Salutant
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Mathilde Blind
Published by Good Press, 2020
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Presently, however, there came an offer from a man her parents deemed not at all unsuited to her. This was in 1771, when she was seventeen, and it is curious to note how, before she had really thought much about marriage, she mechanically viewed it after the conventional French fashion. This man—a jeweller, who had already lost two wives, and who had a good business, an excellent reputation and an amiable disposition, seems chiefly to have desired the connection because Manon's unusually serious turn of mind led him to think she would make a capital housewife and accountant. She herself seemed quite without illusions! In writing to Sophie, she reveals her inmost thoughts, and one can see that at this youthful age she felt almost as much bound to abide by her parents' choice as did Portia by the fateful caskets. Begging her friend's assistance on this "terrible occasion," she says she has had one interview with the gentleman, without being able to recall precisely "whether he was dark or fair," though it seems to her that "he was of a sallow complexion, with a long thin face, much pitted with the small-pox; hesitating of speech, and with nothing in his manners to attract or repel."
This affair, to her infinite relief, came to nothing; but one suit had no sooner been refused than a fresh wooer straightway started up, chiefly recruited from the tradesmen of "the quarter." These were by no means love suits, in our English sense, but business-like proposals, made by the relatives of would-be husbands to the lady's relatives, who first of all went to work in a round-about way, inquiring into the respective fortunes, character, disposition of the pair. To be so persistently sought after for years, not only shows that Marie Phlipon must have been considered the beauty of her quarter, but that her character and manners inspired the highest regard; not to forget that, being an only child, she was supposed to be an heiress in her small way.
