Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France (57 page)

see my husband’s glory intact
: Roland
Lettres
II, 756

had nothing to lose
: Roland
Memoirs
67

the unfortunate and almost ridiculous
: Tocqueville 209

honnêtes gens
: Bouloiseau 50

dispatch them in advance
: Furet
Interpreting
68

very vigorous measures…virtue and vice
: The next quotations, Moore
Journal
II, 17, 215

No one is more fair
: May 231

It was past midnight
: Loomis 218

His only object…this is one reason…menace, or contempt
: The next quotations, Moore
Journal
II, 145, 144, 101

Do you want a Revolution
: Schama 649

as much enlivened…their mutual animosity
: The next quotations, Moore
Journal
II, 181, 206

sweet as a…than from love
: Jullien 342

He retires before…in his heart
: The next quotations, Moore
Journal
II, 212, 146

solitary rebel
: Arasse 50

Louis must die
: Hardman 74

He knows that he is
: Moore
Journal
II, 358

The blood, even of the
: Kelly 81

To kill a king, you
: Roudinesco 126

Who’ll bid me…demand first refusal
: Stevenson ii

amphibious animal
: Roudinesco 125

neither the physique nor
: Stevenson ii

I die content that
: Schama 672

donned its costume and borrowed
: Yonge I, 232

flocked to their…out the candle
: Todd 216. The entry in her diary is dated 26 Dec. 1792 but this must be a mistake since she is clearly describing the day of Louis’s execution, 21 Jan. 1793

At half past ten
: La Tour du Pin 177

it would be…a brilliant court
: Arasse 60

to protect my honour
: Roland
Memoirs
37

if we did not possess
: May 253

because he was not prepared
: Roland
Memoirs
28

retired from office
: HMW 1794 II, 146

I am ashamed…my own house
: May 252

theatre where she…recover her empire
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Perroud) II, 475

great deal
: Roland
Memoirs
54

He adored me…chagrins domestiques
: The next quotations, Roland
Lettres
II, 757, 680, 759

it must be feared that
: Schama 714

he is evidently a republican
: Plutarch II, 225

repeated discussions about foodstuffs
:
WRP
126–7

thirty thousand women might assemble
: Cerati 24

To provoke trouble…stirring up trouble
: The next quotations,
WRP
130, 140

I believe that…hard and unpitying
: George 418

he will always prevent
: Gottschalk 177

notary and curè
: Soboul
Parisian Sans-Culottes
245

the Jacobins and their supporters
: Roland
Memoirs
30

entirely personal
: Roland
Lettres
II, 760

corrupt deputies
: Shulim 270

a confusion of sounds inexpressibly
: HMW 1790 4

saw at once…of the guilty
: The rest of the quotations in this chapter, Roland
Memoirs
32–5, 39–40

Chapter 9 · MARIÉE

all the calm…is Mlle Bernard
: Letter reprinted in full in English in Herriot I, 11–13, and in French in Wagener 504–5

singulièrement jolie
: Wagener 17

play some great part
: Herriot I, 3n.

to the great satisfaction of
: Wagener 18

little doll
: Roland
Memoirs
136

was never anything…charmed his eyes
: Lenormant
Memoirs
7

respected her sensibilities
: Herold 287

without the least worry
: Wagener 36

as of a kind friend
: Mohl 6

mother of warriors
: Christiansen 103

we must not make too
: Cobb
The Police
91

Chapter 10 · ACTIVISTE

glorious…pay it homage…of the Republic
: The next quotations,
WRP
159, 156–7, 159

On average only a tenth
…: Palmer
Twelve
27

to instruct themselves…Robespierre [and] Marat
: The next quotations,
WRP
161–5, 159

exclusively
: HMW 1796 I, 139

Fellow citizens, let…for their age
: Roudinesco 132–4

Brissotine…incredible fury
: The next quotations, Ernst 280, 277

le fouet
: Duhet 80

depraved societies…of their sex
: The next quotations, Cerati 55, 26

intoxicated Bacchanalians…drunk with blood
: Melzer and Rabine 93

Vive la Montagne…Equality…domestic animals
: The next quotations, Cerati 56, 57, 54

evil influences, under
: Hufton 30

Who rang the tocsin…We did
: George 422

troupe de furies, avide
: Hufton 31

in the passages
: HMW 1796 I, 73

Their zeal is…coquines of Paris
: The next quotations, Cerati 93, 55

firmness and intrepidity…themselves doubly useful
:
WRP
176–7

The vices of our education
: Roudinesco 130

women are far from being
: Soboul
BHÉSRF
19

It would seem that, born
: Gutwirth 293

joy and satisfaction…Constitution
:
WRP
160

Let Marat’s head…them all guillotined
: The next quotations, Schama 730, 736

assassinated by a…that great man
: Petrey 73

Her beautiful face…with Charlotte Corday
: Schama 741

She has killed us
: Kelly 101

This woman being…race of Caen
: The next quotations, Petrey 74, 72

There is no…sovereignty is enemy
: Brooks 56

the red priest of
: Hufton 27

A state is…belong to everyone
: The next quotations, Soboul
Parisian Sans-Culottes
63, 61

Victory is assured when women
: Mathiez
Vie
132

apostle of liberty
: George 419

be replaced by the energy
: Hufton 32n.

It is your…glory awaits you
:
WRP
175

director of the knitters
…:
WRP
166–71

grace and beauty
: Plutarch I, 25 et seq.

O Women! Liberty…women of France
: Schama 749

In making yourselves more motherly
: Gutwirth 178

cold and indolent…I had hoped
: Roland
Memoirs
38

the nectar of the age
: Applewhite and Levy 61

charmante nourrice
: La Tour du Pin 206

We are all…the people life
: The next quotations, Sennett
Flesh and Stone
310, 291

Chapter 11 · PRISONNIÈRE

men stood up…without curtains…capable of mastering
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
41, 45, 42

since the national representation
: HMW 1796 I, 172

Folly and crime have triumphed
: Roland
Memoirs
49

The evil sans-culottes…in the provinces
: Roland
Lettres
II, 759

My conscience spoke to me
: Brissot
Life
75

How many times…of your valour
: The next quotations, Roland
Lettres
II, 481, 484

With a smooth…like a homing pigeon…Citoyenne Roland…You would have thought…Commissioners…indecent curiosity…one of those…Gesture supplies…if my conscience…these dregs of…This is where…a cutlet…All they had done…These tyrants…the man who…of the people
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
109, 110, 110, 111, 111, 112, 115, 115, 171, 115, 115, 113, 113, 115, 116, 82

believed nothing good could
: Loomis 201

the thing that has struck
: Roland
Memoirs
97–8

to the degree that power
: Outram in Porter, 125

This seemed my…my moral and political…the fire myself
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
33, 75, 75

Here, behind bars and bolted
: May 264

can I complain…my last sigh
: Roland
Lettres
II, 492–3

overcome the contradiction
: Outram 138

How I cherish the bars
: Roland
Lettres
II, 500

chains that honour…no-one can see
: May 265

this sweet image
: Roland
Lettres
II, 499

How immediate…my ardent kisses
: Rousseau
La Nouvelle Héloïse
215–6

a loving soul…to practise it
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Perroud) II, 437

pleasant little…unpatriotic talk
: Roland
Memoirs
121

I would hardly have believed
: Roland,
Mémoires
(ed. Roux) 290

Chapter 12 · RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE

une petite crise
…: Caron I, 94

The cockade…movements too much
: Caron I, 150

Two citizens cannot whisper
: Mercier
Waiting City
121

and the queue represented
: La Tour du Pin 194

Our husbands made the revolution
: Caron I, 150

rage and despair…A Single heart…The most delicate…my own eyes
: The next quotations, Yalom 199, 182, 182, 183

Who dares to…by bonnes républicaines
: The next quotations, Cobban I, 236, 165

coward
: George 426

You are infatuated…pale and tremble
:
WRP
178–81

unanimous judgement
: George 427

the doubly advantageous…to crush tyranny
: Hufton 33

She claimed that one didn’t
:
WRP
187

advocates of tyranny or federalism
: Blanc xii

cockroach eyes…women to him
: The next quotations,
WRP
189, 189, 187, 190

It is these…not watch out
: Hufton 35

Citoyenne Lacombe…if they wanted…À bas…The first one…The tumult…We found nothing…All the ills…ill of you
: The next quotations,
WRP
191, 183, 192, 192, 183, 196, 193, 191