Madame Roland

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Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland (French pronunciation: [madam ʁɔlɑ̃]) was a French revolutionary, salonnière and writer. From a young age Roland was interested in philosophy and political theory and studied a broad range of writers and thinkers. She was however dissatisfied with the opportunities available to her as a woman. After marrying the economist Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, she developed with him a husband and wife team which made it possible for her to engage in writing and research. She moved from Paris to Lyon, where she initially led a quiet and unremarkable life as a provincial intellectual with her husband. She became actively involved in politics when the French Revolution broke out in 1789. She spent the first years of the revolution in Lyon, where her husband was elected to the city council. During this period she developed a network...

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