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  • Abbaye, Madame Roland imprisoned in the, 261 et seq.
  • Antoine, 145.
  • Assembly, National, see National Assembly.
  • Barbaroux, and the Rolands, their plans, 202–205, 206;
    • his fate, 309–311.
  • Beaumarchais, his Figaro first given, 85;
  • Beugnot, Comte, his words concerning Madame Roland in prison, 296, 299.
  • Buzot, FranÇois-Nicolas-LÉonard, at the home of the Rolands, 145;
    • Madame Roland’s passion for, 224, 225;
    • his early career, 226, 227;
    • attracts Madame Roland, 227;
    • his nature, 228;
    • correspondence with Madame Roland, 228, 230;
    • his wife not his equal, 227, 230;
    • his personal attractions, 231, 232;
    • his love for Madame Roland, 230, 234, 242–244;
    • his relations toward M. Roland, 244;
    • his struggle against the Mountain party, 247–249;
    • his opinion of Danton and Robespierre, 247, 249;
    • in harmony with M. Roland, 249;
    • his efforts to prove his patriotism, 250;
    • could not approve the Terrorists, 250, 251;
    • his relations with the Rolands well understood, 251;
    • characterized by Marat as frÈre tranquille, 251;
    • his words on the Republic, 255–257;
    • flees from Paris to Evreux, 262, 263;
    • Madame Roland’s letters to, from prison, 274–280;
    • his last days and death, 309–311.
  • Cannet, Henriette, offers to take Madame Roland’s place in prison, 292.
  • Cannet, Sophie, Manon Phlipon’s friendship with, 12–15.
  • Cercle Social, the, patriotic club, 142, 143.
  • Chalier, sent home to Lyons by Roland “with honors,” 211.
  • Champagneux, M., starts the Courrier de Lyon, 128;
    • in constant correspondence with the Rolands, 155;
    • arrested, 284.
  • Champagneux, brother of above, husband of Eudora Roland, 98, 308.
  • Champ-de-Mars, the massacre of, 162, 163.
  • Chauveau-Lagarde, ambitious to defend Madame Roland in her trial, 299.
  • ClaviÈre, at the home of the Rolands, 145–147.
  • Commune, the, 208 699-h-12.htm.html#Page_159" class="pginternal">159.
  • Paris, gold and silver smiths in the western end of, 1;
    • measure to guard the city against attack of foreigners, 188 et seq., 201;
    • life in, during the Revolution, 293, 294.
  • PÉtion, at the home of the Rolands, 145;
    • a Girondin, 171;
    • counsels calm, 205, 208;
    • his fate, 309–311.
  • Phlipon, Madame, mother of Manon Phlipon, her character, 3;
    • her control over her daughter, 5;
    • her death, 31.
  • Phlipon, Marie-Jeanne, called Manon, afterwards Madame Roland, her parents, 2–6;
    • her birth, 5;
    • her character as a child, 5, 6;
    • early reading and education, 6 et seq.;
    • effect of Plutarch’s Lives on, 7, 8;
    • her religions zeal, 9;
    • enters the convent, Dames de la CongrÉgation de Notre Dame, 9, 10;
    • her life and work there, 10–14;
    • her friendship with Sophie Cannet, 12–15;
    • her piety, 11, 12;
    • her letters to Sophie Cannet, 14, 15;
    • her secret resolve to return to convent life, 15;
    • her dislike for the vanities of life, 16, 17, 20, 21;
    • her love of nature, 17;
    • Meudon her favorite spot, 17;
    • her visit to Madame de Boismorel, 18, 19;
    • her early contempt for the social conditions, 19–21;
    • a secretary to Mademoiselle d’Hannaches, 20;
    • makes an eight-day visit to Versailles, 21;
    • her description of her impressions there, 22;
    • her attitude toward the King and government at twenty years of age, 22–24;
    • prefers a republic, 22, 23;
    • her reading after leaving the convent, 24–26;
    • her cahiers, 26;
    • deeply interested in philosophy, 26, 27;
    • studies Christian dogma severely and rationally, 27, 28;
    • her mental and spiritual condition, 28–30;
    • the influence of Rousseau’s Nouvelle HÉloÏse on, 31–35;
    • her words concerning Rousseau and his works, 34, 35;
    • her notions of a future husband, 35–38;
    • applicants for her hand, 35, 36;
    • n her child, 166;
    • decides to return to Paris, 166, 167;
    • her ideal of government unsatisfied, 169, 170;
    • her supreme confidence in herself, 170;
    • considered herself better than her husband, 170;
    • her feeling against the old rÉgime, 170;
    • her attitude on her return to Paris, 176, 177;
    • her life and habits after her husband entered the Ministry of the Interior, 179, 180;
    • her influence in choosing persons for positions in the department, 180, 181;
    • her mistrust of General Dumouriez and others, 181, 182;
    • doubts the good faith of the King, 183;
    • her measures to meet perils threatening Paris, 188 et seq.;
    • she writes letter to the King concerning the perils, 190;
    • persuades her husband to publish the letter to the King, 197, 198;
    • meets Barbaroux, 201, 202;
    • her plan carried, 210;
    • her antipathy to Danton, 214–217;
    • her words concerning Robespierre, Marat, and Danton, 221, 222;
    • her disgust at the brutal turn of affairs in the Revolution, 222;
    • attacked by Marat, 222, 223;
    • would not compromise with the insurrectionary force, 223, 225;
    • her passion for Buzot, 224, 225, 227–244;
    • her first interest in Buzot, 227, 228;
    • her correspondence with Buzot, 228–230;
    • her disillusionment in regard to the Revolution, 230, 231;
    • her hope in Buzot, 231;
    • attracted by Buzot’s personal charms, 231, 232;
    • the waning of her affection for her husband and of her friendship with Bosc, Lanthenas, and Bancal, 233;
    • her notions of duty and devotion, 234;
    • her relations with various friends during her life, 235–241;
    • influenced by the “new ideas” of love and marriage, she accepts the love of Buzot, 242, 243;
    • she tells her husband of her love for Buzot, 243;
    • her relations to her husband thereafter, 244;
    • Danton’s words concerning, 245;
    • holds her place in the struggle, 251;
    • abused by Marat, 252;
    • her position compared with that of Marie Antoinette, 252;
    • appears before the Convention, 253;
    • danger to her life, 253, 254;
    • attempts to leave Paris, but falls ill, 151.
    • Vergniaud, 201.
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