History of Madame Roland . his plans. Though the Girondists and the Jacobins werethe two great parties now contending in the tu-multuous arena of French revolution, there stillremained the enfeebled and broken remains ofthe court party, with their insulted and humil-iated king at their head, and also numerouscliques and minor divisions of those strugglingfor power. At the political evening reunionsin the saloon of Madame Roland, she was inva-riably present, not as a prominent actor in thescenes, taking a conspicuous part in the socia^debates, but as a quiet and modest lady, of well-known intel
History of Madame Roland . his plans. Though the Girondists and the Jacobins werethe two great parties now contending in the tu-multuous arena of French revolution, there stillremained the enfeebled and broken remains ofthe court party, with their insulted and humil-iated king at their head, and also numerouscliques and minor divisions of those strugglingfor power. At the political evening reunionsin the saloon of Madame Roland, she was inva-riably present, not as a prominent actor in thescenes, taking a conspicuous part in the socia^debates, but as a quiet and modest lady, of well-known intellectual supremacy, whose activemind took the liveliest interest in the agitationsof the hour. The influence she exerted wasthe polished, refined, attractive influence of anaccomplished woman, who moved in her ownappropriate sphere. She made no Amazonianspeeches. She mingled not with men in theclamor of debate. With an invisible hand shegently and winningly touched the springs ofaction in other hearts. With feminine conver-. • . ------ < BROTHER! 1791.] The National Assembly. 117 Madame Rolands mode of action. Her delicacy. sational eloquence, she threw out sagacious sug-gestions, which others eagerly adopted, and ad-vocated, and carried into vigorous did no violence to that delicacy of percep-tion which is womans tower and strength. Shemoved not from that sphere where womanreigns so resistlessly, and dreamed not of lay-ing aside the graceful and polished weapons ofher own sex, to grasp the heavier and coarserarmor of man, which no woman can wield. Bysuch an endeavor, one does but excite the re-pugnance of all except the unfortunate few, whocan see no peculiar sacredness in womans per-son, mind, or heart. As the gentlemen assembled in the retiredparlor, or rather library and study, appropriatedto these confidential interviews, Madame Ro-land took her seat at a little work-table, asidefrom the circle where her husband and hisfriends were discussing their politi
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