Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
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poudrè, frisé, parfumé: Ribeiro 84
Toi suits citizen…of good manners: Soboul Parisian Sans-Culottes 227
a mutual estimation: Tomalin 165
gay ornamental drapery: Landes 131
very disagreeable: Wollstonecraft 220
Do not kill…evil you do: The next quotations, Staël CG II, part 1, 16, 51
There can be nothing imagined: Burney 235
I love you…kind of doubt: The next quotations, Staël CG II, part 1, 41, 35, 95–6
Chapter 8 · FEMME POLITIQUE
Ferocious in face…evil reputation: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 65 (trans. Loomis 201), 171, 65, 64
If the gratification: Moore Journal II, 148
and that there was no: Roland Memoirs 64
generous ideas…obstinate assurance: Barras I, 104
They had no…use her pen: Roland Memoirs 66
had been unable either to: Roland Mémoires (ed. Roux) 20
Most of them thought: Roland Memoirs 69
You know that I do: Loomis 76
that fanatical: Roland Mémoires (ed. Roux) 124
I don’t give a damn: Roland Memoirs 44
necessary to appease the people: Schama 633
this personal predicament enabled: Roland Memoirs 72
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
by their rudeness…desire to share…One can put it…citoyennes patriotes: The next quotations, Caron I, 92, 154, 192, 162
very much an…being an aristocrat…aristocracy to wear them: The next quotations, WRP 202, 203, 207
Down with red bonnets!: WRP 209–12
but adventurers, knights errant: Soboul BHÈSRF 26n.
violence and threats…the public safety: These next quotations, WRP 213–17
to organise in clubs: Landes 145
occasioned by a false report: George 436
Impudent women who…of the Fatherland: The rest of the quotations in this chapter, WRP 219–20, 160, 160
Chapter 13 · VICTIME
I can feel…to be confined: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 154, 156, 75, 156, 126, 156, 162, 163
How Robespierre loves blood: Roland Mémoires (ed. Roux) 302
I cannot go…nearer to you: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 252, 254, 258
sincere and ardent…longer reign here: Roland Lettres II, 522–3
made no defence: HMW 1796, I, 155
Romans again: Outram 95
We are accused…are our functions: Palmer Twelve 71
in such a…his country’s shame: HMW 1796 I, 163
sorte de joie: Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 484
My God I am sorry: Schama 804
resolving to wait the appointed: HMW 1796 I, 162
displayed a villainous…the greatest consternation: Blanc 65
conspiring against the unity: Roland Memoirs 259
As for me…my unhappy husband: Roland Lettres II, 529
seemed absorbed in profound meditations: Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 493
misfortunes and a long confinement: May 280, quoting Riouffe
No woman could…had met death with…The tender and…his own heart: The next quotations, Yonge I, 175, 175, 174, 178
It is for…see me pass: The next quotations, Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 489, 491
Long live the Republic: Roland Memoirs 259
You find me…they have shown: Roland Mémoires (ed. Roux) 37
a certain joyfulness: May 285
It suits you…fresh, calm, smiling: Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 494
O Libertè, que de crimes: Roland Mémoires (ed. Roux) 38; Mercier New Picture I, 206. Another version is ‘O Libertè, comme on t’a jouée!’, Christiansen 115
What more than Roman fortitude: HMW 1801 II, 63
he had died…covered with crimes: May 290–1
She is no…you have lived: Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 269–70
the sword of…proud device: The next quotations, Arasse 75, 74
familiarized, domesticated and commodified: Stuart 134
It was not the love: Arasse 89
she showed very…alarmed the mob: Elliott 114
ambitious, without genius: Stevenson iii
Children of the Fatherland: WRP 259
Oh fatal aspiration to fame: Arasse 113
abnormal sexuality: Melzer and Rabine 115
Marie-Antoinette was…of her sex: Brooks 59
in so strange, so shocking: Kotzebue II, 172, records Julie Talma’s account of Manon’s last night in prison
the faithless subject…was an author: Plutarch III, 391
character renders beauty respectable: Kelly 129
The Goddess: on a person: Agulhon 30
that he had expelled: Mercier New Picture II, 81
In Pau, the women of…: Ozouf 101
Reason as the Supreme Being: Schama 779
Republican woman, preserve…me to suffer: Blanc 18
Chapter 14 · MAÎTRESSE
met a woman so endowed: Gastine 113
Thèrésia and I, happy as: Abrantes Salons III, 191
the roving reprèsentant…the great man: Cobb The Police 190
Between October and December Tallien…: Vivie II, 143
Bleed the purses and level: Ferrus 30
severe and sweet at: Bourquin 128
You think that…moi vous embrassons: Ferrus 117
He had rendered her some: La Tour du Pin 196
for having intimate…fall into discredit: Ferrus 165
as good as…You will be safe…encouraged by…All these enemies…importune you further: The next quotations, La Tour du Pin 196, 196, 196, 198
Thèrésia stayed in the forbidding…: See Ferrus 158 on whether she really was in prison in Bordeaux; it seems likely, but there is no conclusive evidence
Consider my terror…shrugged her shoulders: La Tour du Pin 202
Such is the fate of: Gilles 105
une ètrangère…question than Tallien: Ferrus 187
His heavy and monotonous style: Abrantes Memoirs I, 248
enemies to moral…will soon disappear: Ferrus 196 et seq.
At intervals the expression: Abrantes Memoirs I, 249
I risked my life: Gilles 142
stopping for neither…a pathetic scene: La Tour du Pin 203
You are an…I love Tallien: Bickley 64
divine, heavenly libèratrice…devotion until death: Gilles 127
loved gold: Lage de Volude 172
these new Luculluses: Ferrus 208
Luxury suits neither my principles: Gilles 115
believe in the esteem: Ferrus 216
with all the grace: La Tour du Pin 209
spitting blood…was paying dear…that she had…Hand me…He did not speak…Believe me…a sort of honour…I will not…have been useful: The next quotations, Lage de Volude 171, 172, 174
, 175, 175, 183, 185, 186, 176
so out of…first she wanted to show…tears of joy: The next quotations, La Tour du Pin 216, 216, 219
Anarchy from within…into the world: Palmer Twelve 5
If the mainspring…and inflexible justice: Bienvenu 33
We seek an order: Shulim 274
The grocers continue…haven of happiness: Bienvenu 71–2
Some wish to…tempest be steered: Palmer Twelve 129
dangerous weakness…tears of repentance: HMW 1796 II, 164
A revolution like ours: Bouloiseau 37
the most daring courage: HMW 1796 I, 13
who were not…of the earth: Gilles 136
I cannot look at: Ferrus 281
not to become…saluer mon papa: The next quotations, HMW 1796 II, 28; III, 186
Adieu Loulou, adieu…going to die: Schama 820
Among the victims…of its tenderness: HMW 1796 I, 213
One can no…talk so loud: The next quotations, Blanc 64, 63
Chapter 15 · LIBÉRATRICE
Bordeaux seems to…portion of the…petite, menton rond: The next quotations, Gilles 148, 149–50 (excerpts from the document), 152
All the papers relating to: Gastine 22
Never did Robespierre pursue: Gilles 158, quoting Taschereau
silent streets and barricaded doors: Frènilly 124
Everyone seemed to slip through: Lacretelle 129
Women did not…doors securely closed: Frénilly 125
to see what sort of: HMW 1796 II, 67
impairing the purity of: Schama 837
Arbitrary power against which: Staël Considerations II, 33
crowded with commissaries and soldiers: HMW 1796 I, 10
an important component: Cobb The French 17
Let her look in: Gilles 165
The true priest…and feeling hearts: Schama 831
proclaim himself king, open: Hortense I, 36
When we are mothers: Ozouf 116
You may kill…round with iron: Yonge I, 180
United by the…No, he wants nothing…to the scaffold: The next quotations HMW 1796 I, 19; II, 102; II, 102
unworthy of a…any political matter: WRP 231
he who would have been: Hortense I, 34
A natural sentiment and: WRP 160
state of madness…suspect remarks: Ernst 283
If you are…would second me: Roudinesco 147
neither in his…of the people: Gilles 172
was the Terror itself: Barras I, 264
incapable of personal…at an end: Staël Considerations II, 142
Tallien contended for two lives: Fouché I, 16
that is to say…courage; calm yourself: Ouvrard I, 18
I will go to my: Ferrus 406