Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . nowsthat Roland has not been alone in his department;and Marat, once demanded that an address bereturned to its place of origin, the boudoir of thewoman Roland. vBut Madame Roland was more than the alterego of her husband. She has been well called themother of the Girondists. She was in constantcommunication with the leading members of theparty, some of whom were always dining at herhouse. Her salon was a hotbed of new was a woman of great beauty and had herwarm admirers who treated her as a saint—someone had her face reproduced on the cov
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . nowsthat Roland has not been alone in his department;and Marat, once demanded that an address bereturned to its place of origin, the boudoir of thewoman Roland. vBut Madame Roland was more than the alterego of her husband. She has been well called themother of the Girondists. She was in constantcommunication with the leading members of theparty, some of whom were always dining at herhouse. Her salon was a hotbed of new was a woman of great beauty and had herwarm admirers who treated her as a saint—someone had her face reproduced on the cover of abonbonniere and it is one of the finest portraits ofher.^ She was a very human saint, for she fellin love with Buzot, one of her Girondists. It wasimpossible for her to love dry old Roland as well,and honesty compelled her to tell him so; whichgreatly embittered his life. But such fidelity Plate 125, p. 297. Plate 126, p. 299. War 299 and loyalty as she could give were his to the last. The transactions of the Jacobin Club show that. Plate 126. A portrait of Madame Roland taken from the cover of abonbonniere in the Mus^c Carnavalet. one of the chief grievances against Roland was hisdisseminating, with public funds, of an addressin which Louvet bitterly assailed the great pillarof the Mountain Party, Robespierre. Week afterweek the tirades on this subject continue and,^ asusual, the cartoonists were pressed into the service. 300 The French Revolution We have a caricature of Roland as a cock andMadame Roland as a hen. Some of the detailsof the production are unintelligible—to the author
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