People who know how to employ themselves always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
- Jeanne-Marie Roland de la Platière, 1754–1793, French Revolutionary
Portrait of Madame Roland by Adelaide Labille-Guiard (1787)
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At The Online Library of Liberty you can read Madam Roland's three works:
* An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizenness Roland, 2 vols. (1793)
* An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizenness Roland, vol. 1 (1793)
* An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizenness Roland, vol. 2 (1793)
Jeanne-Marie Roland Criticism - eNotes.com
INTRODUCTION
If only for a few weeks, Madame Roland was the most powerful woman in Paris. Louis XVI of France was finally deposed, and Roland entertained, with her husband, the most powerful men of the new government. However, these powerful men—including Jean Paul Marat, Georges Jacques Danton, and Maximilien Robespierre—quickly turned on the Rolands when they failed to support their increasingly violent measures for exercising political control following the French Revolution. ... Continue reading
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Read Madam Roland's view on the state of the French Economy, 1789 in Internet Modern History Sourcebook
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