Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

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by Moore, Lucy


  sought a man: Rousseau Émile 439

  a passion of virtue: Staël Letters on…Rousseau iv

  can only be read with: Brooks 33

  It laughs at…hope of youth: Herold 196

  too civilised in…of uniting them: From ‘On Literature’ in Berger 179

  preferred the generous principles: Staël Considérations I, 353

  not the provincial gentry: Hampson 53

  It was the…classes of society: La Tour du Pin 75

  a kind of school for: Mercier New Picture I, 30

  decided every action: Staël Considerations I, 269

  All Frenchmen shall wear: Herriot I, 67

  We have some little compliments: Morris II, 246

  of the first…for that company: Morris I, 6

  Everyone tells us…will be happy: Adams 5

  Either no individual…to Rousseauist views: The next quotations, Gutwirth 224, 204

  Men whom the…maintain in silence: Moore Roots 65

  mad about the English: HMW 1790 69

  Everything had to be copied: La Tour du Pin 98

  of privilege and liberty: May 128

  attained the perfection of: Staël Considerations I, 14

  seemed as criminal as if: Hampson, 48, quoting Chastenay

  young, brilliant…thought they held: Chastenay 81

  a demagogue by calculation: Staël Considerations I, 256

  drunk with hope and joy: Talleyrand I, 47

  You are wrong…air of conviction: The next quotations, Staël Considerations 1, 188, and II, 140

  La patrie est…to its aid: Shulim 268

  my speaker…on the veto: Staël CG I, 33

  As political affairs were still: Staël Considerations I, 379

  Men of the…equality, but liberty: The next quotations, Staël Considérations I, 383, 386, 350

  Chapter 2 · FILLE SANS-CULOTTE

  Next year, you’ll be behind: Vigèe-Lebrun 71

  There go some more: La Tour du Pin 145

  no riotous scene…groundswell of menace: Ozouf 39

  comic and abusive verse: Hufton 21

  The women of…when everyone is trying…if we are left…We ask to be enlightened…the…fatherland in danger: The next quotations, WRP 53, 18, 19, 20, 158

  and, with a spirit worthy: HMW 1790 27

  for the happy revolution: Kelly 19, quoting Le Moniteur for 9 Aug. 1789

  more from duty…obliged to resist: Staël Considerations I, 271

  men didn’t understand anything about: WRP 35

  sweep away the…the fine one: The next quotations, Schama 459, 460

  men were not strong enough: WRP 37, quoting Maillard

  the beating down of gates: Ozouf 126

  the sycophant Lafayette…slit their throats: The next quotations, WRP 44, 45

  The town is…the female mob: Morris I, 242–3

  Motion of the…Who Sell Fish: Schama 457

  Every eye was turned: Staël Considerations 1, 339

  You must not be seen: Boigne 58

  had been forced to march: La Tour du Pin 130

  Habits of formality…uttering wild cries: The next quotations, Boigne 58

  horrid yells and…advantages of education: Paulson 80

  to bring back the queen’s head: WRP 48

  We suffer more…across our shoulders: The next quotations, Gutwirth 245, 244

  Since that time…Watch with more exactitude…unworthy of us: The next quotations, WRP 159, 67

  women were neither too weak…: Kennedy I, 90

  at Creil…and Limoges: Villiers 28, 88, 89, 91, 102

  all politics and…electrified hearts: WRP 85

  We want to save: Dupuy 63

  a Frenchwoman inflamed with love: Villiers 70

  we do not venture to come: Roudinesco 88

  in Tonneins, the local Jacobins…: Kennedy I, 92

  Your predecessors deposited…raised to the ranks…fatherland in danger: The next quotations, WRP 72, 73, 74

  Chapter 3 · CLUBISTE

  the colour of blood: Roudinesco 197, quoting Lamartine

  amante de carnage: Baudelaire, Sisina

  sought a man…vaillante, infortunée Liégoise: The next quotations, Michelet, Femmes 153, 147

  suspended between literary bohemianism: Roudinesco 9

  covered in diamonds: Roudinesco 10, quoting Thomas d’Espinchal

  general effervescence: Ernst 87

  descending into the…multitude: Kelly 11

  did not witness the main: Ernst 88, 105

  to play the role: Ernst 89

  How the months, the days: Rosa 19

  set up the tricoloured cockade: Yonge I, 126

  professional coquette: Roudinesco 201

  the kept woman…a free person: Schama 463

  What most impressed…a heroic air: Roudinesco 5

  My devotion to…the most worthy…public: The next quotations, Ernst 90, 82

  We should bear…are those of…the liberty of…with Spartan pride: The next quotations, Roudinesco 38, 39, 39, 28

  because of my patriotism: Ernst 91

  One might call…National embryo…unrest was greatest: The next quotations, Roudinesco 30, 32, 31

  The reign of…with private virtues: Gutwirth 286

  as the whirlwind attracts: Roudinesco 196

  It is carefree and so: Schama 525

  incompatible with liberty: Ernst 92

  As soon as they began: Kotzebue II, 112

  It is the Queen: Michelet Femmes 150

  Mlle Thèroigne and those of: Roudinesco 42

  women were the soul of: Aulard Histoire politique 97

  reading and interpreting the decrees: Villiers 43

  He who votes…catch a cold: Roudinesco 46

  the club of women: Cerati 25

  the tyranny which men exercise: Roudinesco 71

  there being a woman in…: Ernst 95

  Chapter 4 · MONDAINE

  The tranquillity of France: Gower I, 28

  sans joie comme sans chagrin: Bourquin 57

  her good and…profound immorality: Marcourt 42

  of all the…prostituted: Frénilly 154

  Even the men…taught to respect: Herold 69

  What social disaster…were considered provincial: The next quotations, La Tour du Pin 17, 27

  There is nothing in love: Goncourt 112

  adultery in itself was nothing: Rousseau Confessions 190

  dethroned…delicious: Bourquin 71

  but extremely en beau: Bickley 64

  no more beautiful…radiant femininity: La Tour du Pin 196–7

  of caressing magic: Lacour 66

  When they converse…Everything tiresome…than to listen: The next quotations, HMW 1790 70, 74, 43

  A list of putative members…: Ernst 105

  women of the…shocking and ridiculous: The next quotations, Genlis IV, 93, 92

  The Revolution naturally descended: Staël Considerations I, 347

  comme dans une…Dame de Fontenay: Houssaye 37

  The following summer, a similar…: Cobban I, 168

  inspired by the same spirit: HMW 1790 7

  I honour no less: Ozouf 47

  Ladies took the instruments: HMW 1790 7

  victim to an excess: Herold 101

  to be faithful forever to: Dowd 46

  The French revolution is cemented: HMW 1790 15

  What is it to me: Schama 512

  no fatal gap had yet: Ozouf 35

  This memorable day was: Mercier New Picture I, 47

  the most sublime spectacle: HMW 1790 2

  individual joy embodied…of the people: The next quotations, Ozouf 57, 51, 60

  Every man seems at pains: HMW 1794 I, 172

  We were transformed into: Ribeiro 141

  had inflamed more souls: Dowd 2

  the destruction of…destruction of despotism: Genlis IV, 90

  I have found…by the world: HMW 1794 I, 143

  altogether a most embarrassing person: Herold
52

  To avoid the…powerful, useful men: Talleyrand I, 124

  Though her eyes and smile: Vigée-Lebrun 321

  One praise I…well on horseback: The next quotations, Genlis I 149, 167

  derived less from Rousseau than…: Bruce 18

  corrupted everything within his reach: La Tour du Pin 83

  had a real esteem: Genlis IV, 87

  had never been…food against famine: Frènilly 100

  which they desired…to stop them: Berry I, 347–8

  when age and ill health make: Roland, Memoirs 151

  emigration became all the vogue: La Tour du Pin 116

  an act of…dead or faithful: The next quotations, Staël Considerations II, 2, 4

  stronger, more distinct and more: Berger 51

  and at night, everybody: Herold 106

  a little too…resist his eloquence: The next quotations, Bourquin 59, 63, 67

  On Tallien and Thèrésia’s first meetings: Houssaye 39, 32

  curieuse mythomanie: Marcourt 52; also Bourquin 36

  Chapter 5 · RÉPUBLICAINE

  yawning over the papers: Roland Lettres I, 653

  But how can…to public affairs: The next quotations, Roland Lettres II, 10, 56

  I had hated kings since: Roland Memoirs 249

  Let them tremble…demand…petit comitè…in our house: The next quotations Roland Lettres II 53, 220, 754, 253

  an expression of…attachment to liberty: HMW 1796 I, 195–6

  warm friend to liberty: Hill 219

  the true heroes of humanity: Brissot New Travels 15

  admired his devotion…wasting his time: Roland Memoirs 80

  only the witness: Cobban I, 178

  bons et: Jullien 35

  I knew the proper role…their time…I loved political…the astute Lameth: The next quotations Roland Memoirs 58, 58, 80, 57

  very well satisfied…applauded with delight: Roland Lettres II, 248

  plain, undistinguished people…a menial task: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 125, 137

  I should have been born: Rosa 19

  a new strength…They can kill me…individuals…in the future: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 133, 133, 174, 175

  If souls were pre-existent: May 29

  a scene where feeble-minded people: Roland Memoirs 147

  I cannot digest, among other: May 31

  the possibility of domestic happiness: Roland Memoirs 217

  it is right to exclude: Kelly 35

  I am avid…in the background: Roland Memoirs 93

  I have not read of: Outram 138–9

  Life was to her: May 65

  I knew that I was: Roland Memoirs 164

  unbearable contrast between the grandeur: Rousseau La Nouvelle Héloïse 72

  having concerned myself…the external…married in a…without crying…But of course…the world…I did not dare…no sex…as an affectionate…in remaining virtuous: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 199, 245, 245, 173, 170, 140–41, 163, 243, 246, 170

  in truth, we are people: Roland Lettres I, 394

  virtue produces happiness: Rudé Robespierre 95

  the birthday of a new: Paine 65

  under the simple and rustic: Brissot Life 7

  greatly superior to…circumstances are favourable: Paulson 12

  I desire you…voice or Representation: Applewhite and Levy 181

  We regret this promised land: Roland Lettres II, 80

  disgust with the revolution: Tocqueville 209

  We must make…lack, but soul: The next quotations, Roland Lettres II, 274, 276

  500 heads would have sufficed: Gottschalk 121

  was not just an unfortunate: Schama 447

  infamous treason…of these monsters: WRP 159

  asked what was meant: Roland Memoirs 82

  superfluity: Bizardel 86

  keeping the king…an indescribable enthusiasm: The next quotations, Roland Lettres II, 310, 325

  On the royal family’s return to Paris: Schama 557

  the Jacobins passed…incompatible with liberty: The next quotations, Roland Lettres II, 309, 325, 305, 317, 313

  women, sisters, and Roman women: WRP 79

  comme tous les bons: Applewhite and Levy 81

  without interruption: WRP 159

  I need to see my: May 195

  Paris is as still: Jullien 41

  as absolute, moral concepts: Outram in Porter 121

  who desecrate words merely: Berger 105

  one whose energy…justice from individuals: May 195–6

  Roland, nèe Phlipon: Roland Lettres II, 388

  had already singled…intimate and unbreakable: Roland Memoirs 84

  Women are now…from the revolution: WRP 87–96

  Although I am…to be geese: WRP 99

  rushing around from nine o’clock: Staël CG II, part 2, 310

  What a triumph…not their dupe: Fairweather 124

  to the most…were equally distinguished: Staël Considerations II, 40

  Ah! You overwhelm me: Gay III, 51

  Imagine, my Lord, no buckles: Roland Memoirs 61

  Chapter 6 · AMAZONE

  provoked and irritated…ineffectually…So much…left side…the famous…betray their secrets: The next quotations, Roudinesco 64, 65, 64, 65, 55

  particularly dangerous for…the French revolution: The next quotations, Ernst 39, 42

  how it was…grave political crimes…the delightful person…As far as politics…This tyranny…This vision…prisoner’s sworn enemies: The next quotations, Roudinesco 58, 58, 58, 71, 71, 71, 62

  the accused seems to be: Ernst 206

  luminous and surprising…to her principles: The next quotations, Roudinesco 75, 79

  I can announce…the women’s tribune: Ernst 249

  president of her…long a time: The next quotations, Roudinesco 92, 96–7

  for having escaped…they are citoyennes: Applewhite and Levy 90

  she will serve her: Villiers 76

  to find their household: Roudinesco 100

  Women have shared…to both sexes: WRP 123

  our most illustrious…celebration of insurrection: The next quotations, Dowd 56, 64

  provide a mirror in which: Ozouf 23

  Plant a stake crowned with: Dowd 81

  I was there…festival of the people: Jullien 67

  Whatever one may say: Ozouf 66

  The pikes of the people: Applewhite and Levy 89

  Jacobins’ strumpet: Roudinesco 94

  a manhunter, mad for men: Ernst 256

  rèpublique: Landes 21

  our shameful institutions…range the forests: Plutarch III, 426

  the women who…all their scars: Roudinesco 105

  Since we cannot find men: Ernst 263

  constantly undermined the arrangements: Roland Memoirs 87

  aimed at a…to their friends: The next quotations, Staël Considerations II, 28, 30

  at the centre…me no rest: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 62, 89

  I hope only to be: May 212

  an ardent lover…your mortal enemies: Roland Lettres II, 417

  proved his lack…for the Republic: Roland Memoirs 89

  will be accomplished…revolutions become necessary: Schama 605

  the most pure language: Gidney 12

  I would never…was worth something: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 91, 97, 98

  the tree of liberty grows: Paulson 24

  in the most profound…What a triumph: Jullien 134

  the heart of…this play-acting: Schama 607

  la femme du roi was: Jullien 139

  like a last cry: Yalom 154

  He seemed a sacred victim: Staël Considerations, II, 53

  the pleasure of…in actual possession: Gower I, 46

  Let us strike this colossus: Schama 612

  Pauvre Louis…but of them: The next quotations, Jullien 206, 194, 217

  They all seemed…mirth and enjoyment: Moore Journal I, 5

>   monotonous, mournful and rapid: Staël Considerations II, 66

  citoyennes without citizenhood: Godineau 122

  stabbed, sabred, stoned and clubbed: Schama 615

  to fight the…in my place: WRP 159

  Citizens, the National Assembly: Roudinesco 113

  carrying one of his children: Moore Journal I, 32

  Day of blood: Jullien 217

  Chapter 7 · ÉMIGRÉE

  as much distinguished by his: Moore Journal I, 117

  that men were born equal: Brissot Life 7

  no longer possible: Staël CG II, part 2, 354

  Not a carriage was: Frènilly 115

  with death in…an equal footing: Staël Considérations II, 68

  At last I can hope: Staël CG II, part 1, 1

  You have saved my life: Staël Lettres à Narbonne 51

  A little English phlegm: Moore Journal I, 63. Moore was actually writing about the debates at the National Assembly for exactly this period

  Applauders and murmurers are: Moore Journal I, 126

  a man devoted to public: Jullien 120

  distinguished herself in the action: Moore Journal I, 70

  Citizens, no nation…have been over: Schama 628

  ravening wolves: Roland Memoirs 68

  the first battle we shall: Schama 630

  rise and let the blood: Gottschalk 124

  good citizens to…departure of citizens: The next quotations, Schama 630, 630, 631

  une heure un…in his vanity: Staël Considérations II, 71

  All Paris saw…easily have prevented: Roland Memoirs 71

  profound and sombre silence: Schama 634

  the terrible details…torn to pieces: Loomis 83

  naked, quivering bodies: Cobb The French 143

  nothing but cutting…of the massacre: The next quotations, Gutwirth 309, 339, 340

  asking for it: Linda Orr in Melzer and Rabine, 124

  a swarm of…under a vault…sink into it: The next quotations, Staël Considerations II, 71, 73, 77

  dying of hunger, of thirst: Staël Considérations II, 77

  with their arms…on our minds: The next quotations, Staël Considerations II, 73, 78

  Is it possible…lamenting their fate: The next quotations, Moore Journal I, 184, 185, 199

  three years of…know the French: The next quotations, Jullien 285, 298

  Anarchy is rampant…will enforce it: Bouloiseau 11

  he was neither…they blew cold: Hardman 54

  Kings are to the moral: Roudinesco 121

  She shared all my fears: Ferrus 137

  symbols of despotism: Houssaye 54

  designated victims: Bearne 125

  woman of rank: Moore Journal I, 255

  The visible signs of patriotism: HMW 1796 I, 193

  a tailor of the ancien: Loomis 276

 

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