Roland, Jeanne-Marie

Roland, Jeanne-Marie

▪ French politician
in full  Jeanne-Marie Roland de La Platière , née  Jeanne-Marie Phlipon , byname  Manon Phlipon 
born March 17, 1754, Paris, France
died November 8, 1793, Paris

      wife of Jean-Marie Roland (Roland, Jean-Marie), 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 engraver. Brilliant and cultured, she absorbed the democratic ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other 18th-century French philosophers. In 1780 she married Roland. The couple settled in Paris in 1791, and Mme Roland's salon quickly became a meeting place for the group of bourgeois republicans (later called the Girondins) led by Jacques Brissot. Although she was at first on friendly terms with the radical democrat Maximilien de Robespierre, one of the leaders of the Jacobin Club, she broke with him in late 1791.

      Mme Roland directed the activities of her husband after he became minister of the interior under King Louis XVI in March 1792, and she drafted the letter of protest from Roland to the king that led to Roland's dismissal from the ministry on June 13. The special object of her hatred, however, was Georges Danton (Danton, Georges), who overshadowed her husband on the provisional executive council formed after the overthrow of the monarchy (August 10, 1792). By having her husband attack Robespierre and Danton before the National Convention (the Revolutionary legislature that convened in September 1792), she alienated Danton from the Girondins and widened the split between the Jacobin and Girondin factions.

      She was arrested on the outbreak (May 31, 1793) of the Jacobin-inspired insurrection that led to the expulsion (June 2) of the leading Girondins from the Convention. During her five-month imprisonment she wrote her memoirs, Appel à l'impartiale postérité (“Appeal to Impartial Posterity”). Just before she was guillotined, she uttered the famous words “O Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!”

Additional Reading
Biographies are Madeleine Clemenceau-Jacquemaire, The Life of Madame Roland, trans. by Laurence Vail (1930; originally published in French, 1926); and Gita May, Madame Roland and the Age of Revolution (1970).

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