Makers of History

Madame Roland

BY

JOHN S. C. ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1904

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
ight hundred and fifty, by

Harper & Brothers,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

Copyright, 1878, by Jane W. Abbott.

MADAME ROLAND.

PREFACE.

The history of Madame Roland embraces the most interesting events ofthe French Revolution, that most instructive tragedy which time hasyet enacted. There is, perhaps, contained in the memoirs of no otherwoman so much to invigorate the mind with the desire for highintellectual culture, and so much to animate the spirit heroically tomeet all the ills of this eventful life. Notwithstanding herexperience of the heaviest temporal calamities, she found, in theopulence of her own intellectual treasures, an unfailing resource.These inward joys peopled her solitude with society, and dispelledeven from the dungeon its gloom. I know not where to look for a careermore full of suggestive thought.

CONTENTS.