Book Read Free

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

Page 43

by Moore, Lucy


  poudrè, frisé, parfumé: Ribeiro 84

  Toi suits citizen…of good manners: Soboul Parisian Sans-Culottes 227

  a mutual estimation: Tomalin 165

  gay ornamental drapery: Landes 131

  very disagreeable: Wollstonecraft 220

  Do not kill…evil you do: The next quotations, Staël CG II, part 1, 16, 51

  There can be nothing imagined: Burney 235

  I love you…kind of doubt: The next quotations, Staël CG II, part 1, 41, 35, 95–6

  Chapter 8 · FEMME POLITIQUE

  Ferocious in face…evil reputation: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 65 (trans. Loomis 201), 171, 65, 64

  If the gratification: Moore Journal II, 148

  and that there was no: Roland Memoirs 64

  generous ideas…obstinate assurance: Barras I, 104

  They had no…use her pen: Roland Memoirs 66

  had been unable either to: Roland Mémoires (ed. Roux) 20

  Most of them thought: Roland Memoirs 69

  You know that I do: Loomis 76

  that fanatical: Roland Mémoires (ed. Roux) 124

  I don’t give a damn: Roland Memoirs 44

  necessary to appease the people: Schama 633

  this personal predicament enabled: Roland Memoirs 72

  see my husband’s glory intact: Roland Lettres II, 756

  had nothing to lose: Roland Memoirs 67

  the unfortunate and almost ridiculous: Tocqueville 209

  honnêtes gens: Bouloiseau 50

  dispatch them in advance: Furet Interpreting 68

  very vigorous measures…virtue and vice: The next quotations, Moore Journal II, 17, 215

  No one is more fair: May 231

  It was past midnight: Loomis 218

  His only object…this is one reason…menace, or contempt: The next quotations, Moore Journal II, 145, 144, 101

  Do you want a Revolution: Schama 649

  as much enlivened…their mutual animosity: The next quotations, Moore Journal II, 181, 206

  sweet as a…than from love: Jullien 342

  He retires before…in his heart: The next quotations, Moore Journal II, 212, 146

  solitary rebel: Arasse 50

  Louis must die: Hardman 74

  He knows that he is: Moore Journal II, 358

  The blood, even of the: Kelly 81

  To kill a king, you: Roudinesco 126

  Who’ll bid me…demand first refusal: Stevenson ii

  amphibious animal: Roudinesco 125

  neither the physique nor: Stevenson ii

  I die content that: Schama 672

  donned its costume and borrowed: Yonge I, 232

  flocked to their…out the candle: Todd 216. The entry in her diary is dated 26 Dec. 1792 but this must be a mistake since she is clearly describing the day of Louis’s execution, 21 Jan. 1793

  At half past ten: La Tour du Pin 177

  it would be…a brilliant court: Arasse 60

  to protect my honour: Roland Memoirs 37

  if we did not possess: May 253

  because he was not prepared: Roland Memoirs 28

  retired from office: HMW 1794 II, 146

  I am ashamed…my own house: May 252

  theatre where she…recover her empire: Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 475

  great deal: Roland Memoirs 54

  He adored me…chagrins domestiques: The next quotations, Roland Lettres II, 757, 680, 759

  it must be feared that: Schama 714

  he is evidently a republican: Plutarch II, 225

  repeated discussions about foodstuffs: WRP 126–7

  thirty thousand women might assemble: Cerati 24

  To provoke trouble…stirring up trouble: The next quotations, WRP 130, 140

  I believe that…hard and unpitying: George 418

  he will always prevent: Gottschalk 177

  notary and curè: Soboul Parisian Sans-Culottes 245

  the Jacobins and their supporters: Roland Memoirs 30

  entirely personal: Roland Lettres II, 760

  corrupt deputies: Shulim 270

  a confusion of sounds inexpressibly: HMW 1790 4

  saw at once…of the guilty: The rest of the quotations in this chapter, Roland Memoirs 32–5, 39–40

  Chapter 9 · MARIÉE

  all the calm…is Mlle Bernard: Letter reprinted in full in English in Herriot I, 11–13, and in French in Wagener 504–5

  singulièrement jolie: Wagener 17

  play some great part: Herriot I, 3n.

  to the great satisfaction of: Wagener 18

  little doll: Roland Memoirs 136

  was never anything…charmed his eyes: Lenormant Memoirs 7

  respected her sensibilities: Herold 287

  without the least worry: Wagener 36

  as of a kind friend: Mohl 6

  mother of warriors: Christiansen 103

  we must not make too: Cobb The Police 91

  Chapter 10 · ACTIVISTE

  glorious…pay it homage…of the Republic: The next quotations, WRP 159, 156–7, 159

  On average only a tenth…: Palmer Twelve 27

  to instruct themselves…Robespierre [and] Marat: The next quotations, WRP 161–5, 159

  exclusively: HMW 1796 I, 139

  Fellow citizens, let…for their age: Roudinesco 132–4

  Brissotine…incredible fury: The next quotations, Ernst 280, 277

  le fouet: Duhet 80

  depraved societies…of their sex: The next quotations, Cerati 55, 26

  intoxicated Bacchanalians…drunk with blood: Melzer and Rabine 93

  Vive la Montagne…Equality…domestic animals: The next quotations, Cerati 56, 57, 54

  evil influences, under: Hufton 30

  Who rang the tocsin…We did: George 422

  troupe de furies, avide: Hufton 31

  in the passages: HMW 1796 I, 73

  Their zeal is…coquines of Paris: The next quotations, Cerati 93, 55

  firmness and intrepidity…themselves doubly useful: WRP 176–7

  The vices of our education: Roudinesco 130

  women are far from being: Soboul BHÉSRF 19

  It would seem that, born: Gutwirth 293

  joy and satisfaction…Constitution: WRP 160

  Let Marat’s head…them all guillotined: The next quotations, Schama 730, 736

  assassinated by a…that great man: Petrey 73

  Her beautiful face…with Charlotte Corday: Schama 741

  She has killed us: Kelly 101

  This woman being…race of Caen: The next quotations, Petrey 74, 72

  There is no…sovereignty is enemy: Brooks 56

  the red priest of: Hufton 27

  A state is…belong to everyone: The next quotations, Soboul Parisian Sans-Culottes 63, 61

  Victory is assured when women: Mathiez Vie 132

  apostle of liberty: George 419

  be replaced by the energy: Hufton 32n.

  It is your…glory awaits you: WRP 175

  director of the knitters…: WRP 166–71

  grace and beauty: Plutarch I, 25 et seq.

  O Women! Liberty…women of France: Schama 749

  In making yourselves more motherly: Gutwirth 178

  cold and indolent…I had hoped: Roland Memoirs 38

  the nectar of the age: Applewhite and Levy 61

  charmante nourrice: La Tour du Pin 206

  We are all…the people life: The next quotations, Sennett Flesh and Stone 310, 291

  Chapter 11 · PRISONNIÈRE

  men stood up…without curtains…capable of mastering: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 41, 45, 42

  since the national representation: HMW 1796 I, 172

  Folly and crime have triumphed: Roland Memoirs 49

  The evil sans-culottes…in the provinces: Roland Lettres II, 759

  My conscience spoke to me: Brissot Life 75

  How many times…of your valour: The next quotations, Roland Lettres II, 481, 484

  With
a smooth…like a homing pigeon…Citoyenne Roland…You would have thought…Commissioners…indecent curiosity…one of those…Gesture supplies…if my conscience…these dregs of…This is where…a cutlet…All they had done…These tyrants…the man who…of the people: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 109, 110, 110, 111, 111, 112, 115, 115, 171, 115, 115, 113, 113, 115, 116, 82

  believed nothing good could: Loomis 201

  the thing that has struck: Roland Memoirs 97–8

  to the degree that power: Outram in Porter, 125

  This seemed my…my moral and political…the fire myself: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 33, 75, 75

  Here, behind bars and bolted: May 264

  can I complain…my last sigh: Roland Lettres II, 492–3

  overcome the contradiction: Outram 138

  How I cherish the bars: Roland Lettres II, 500

  chains that honour…no-one can see: May 265

  this sweet image: Roland Lettres II, 499

  How immediate…my ardent kisses: Rousseau La Nouvelle Héloïse 215–6

  a loving soul…to practise it: Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 437

  pleasant little…unpatriotic talk: Roland Memoirs 121

  I would hardly have believed: Roland, Mémoires (ed. Roux) 290

  Chapter 12 · RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE

  une petite crise…: Caron I, 94

  The cockade…movements too much: Caron I, 150

  Two citizens cannot whisper: Mercier Waiting City 121

  and the queue represented: La Tour du Pin 194

  Our husbands made the revolution: Caron I, 150

  rage and despair…A Single heart…The most delicate…my own eyes: The next quotations, Yalom 199, 182, 182, 183

  Who dares to…by bonnes républicaines: The next quotations, Cobban I, 236, 165

  coward: George 426

  You are infatuated…pale and tremble: WRP 178–81

  unanimous judgement: George 427

  the doubly advantageous…to crush tyranny: Hufton 33

  She claimed that one didn’t: WRP 187

  advocates of tyranny or federalism: Blanc xii

  cockroach eyes…women to him: The next quotations, WRP 189, 189, 187, 190

  It is these…not watch out: Hufton 35

  Citoyenne Lacombe…if they wanted…À bas…The first one…The tumult…We found nothing…All the ills…ill of you: The next quotations, WRP 191, 183, 192, 192, 183, 196, 193, 191

  by their rudeness…desire to share…One can put it…citoyennes patriotes: The next quotations, Caron I, 92, 154, 192, 162

  very much an…being an aristocrat…aristocracy to wear them: The next quotations, WRP 202, 203, 207

  Down with red bonnets!: WRP 209–12

  but adventurers, knights errant: Soboul BHÈSRF 26n.

  violence and threats…the public safety: These next quotations, WRP 213–17

  to organise in clubs: Landes 145

  occasioned by a false report: George 436

  Impudent women who…of the Fatherland: The rest of the quotations in this chapter, WRP 219–20, 160, 160

  Chapter 13 · VICTIME

  I can feel…to be confined: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 154, 156, 75, 156, 126, 156, 162, 163

  How Robespierre loves blood: Roland Mémoires (ed. Roux) 302

  I cannot go…nearer to you: The next quotations, Roland Memoirs 252, 254, 258

  sincere and ardent…longer reign here: Roland Lettres II, 522–3

  made no defence: HMW 1796, I, 155

  Romans again: Outram 95

  We are accused…are our functions: Palmer Twelve 71

  in such a…his country’s shame: HMW 1796 I, 163

  sorte de joie: Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 484

  My God I am sorry: Schama 804

  resolving to wait the appointed: HMW 1796 I, 162

  displayed a villainous…the greatest consternation: Blanc 65

  conspiring against the unity: Roland Memoirs 259

  As for me…my unhappy husband: Roland Lettres II, 529

  seemed absorbed in profound meditations: Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 493

  misfortunes and a long confinement: May 280, quoting Riouffe

  No woman could…had met death with…The tender and…his own heart: The next quotations, Yonge I, 175, 175, 174, 178

  It is for…see me pass: The next quotations, Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 489, 491

  Long live the Republic: Roland Memoirs 259

  You find me…they have shown: Roland Mémoires (ed. Roux) 37

  a certain joyfulness: May 285

  It suits you…fresh, calm, smiling: Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 494

  O Libertè, que de crimes: Roland Mémoires (ed. Roux) 38; Mercier New Picture I, 206. Another version is ‘O Libertè, comme on t’a jouée!’, Christiansen 115

  What more than Roman fortitude: HMW 1801 II, 63

  he had died…covered with crimes: May 290–1

  She is no…you have lived: Roland Mémoires (ed. Perroud) II, 269–70

  the sword of…proud device: The next quotations, Arasse 75, 74

  familiarized, domesticated and commodified: Stuart 134

  It was not the love: Arasse 89

  she showed very…alarmed the mob: Elliott 114

  ambitious, without genius: Stevenson iii

  Children of the Fatherland: WRP 259

  Oh fatal aspiration to fame: Arasse 113

  abnormal sexuality: Melzer and Rabine 115

  Marie-Antoinette was…of her sex: Brooks 59

  in so strange, so shocking: Kotzebue II, 172, records Julie Talma’s account of Manon’s last night in prison

  the faithless subject…was an author: Plutarch III, 391

  character renders beauty respectable: Kelly 129

  The Goddess: on a person: Agulhon 30

  that he had expelled: Mercier New Picture II, 81

  In Pau, the women of…: Ozouf 101

  Reason as the Supreme Being: Schama 779

  Republican woman, preserve…me to suffer: Blanc 18

  Chapter 14 · MAÎTRESSE

  met a woman so endowed: Gastine 113

  Thèrésia and I, happy as: Abrantes Salons III, 191

  the roving reprèsentant…the great man: Cobb The Police 190

  Between October and December Tallien…: Vivie II, 143

  Bleed the purses and level: Ferrus 30

  severe and sweet at: Bourquin 128

  You think that…moi vous embrassons: Ferrus 117

  He had rendered her some: La Tour du Pin 196

  for having intimate…fall into discredit: Ferrus 165

  as good as…You will be safe…encouraged by…All these enemies…importune you further: The next quotations, La Tour du Pin 196, 196, 196, 198

  Thèrésia stayed in the forbidding…: See Ferrus 158 on whether she really was in prison in Bordeaux; it seems likely, but there is no conclusive evidence

  Consider my terror…shrugged her shoulders: La Tour du Pin 202

  Such is the fate of: Gilles 105

  une ètrangère…question than Tallien: Ferrus 187

  His heavy and monotonous style: Abrantes Memoirs I, 248

  enemies to moral…will soon disappear: Ferrus 196 et seq.

  At intervals the expression: Abrantes Memoirs I, 249

  I risked my life: Gilles 142

  stopping for neither…a pathetic scene: La Tour du Pin 203

  You are an…I love Tallien: Bickley 64

  divine, heavenly libèratrice…devotion until death: Gilles 127

  loved gold: Lage de Volude 172

  these new Luculluses: Ferrus 208

  Luxury suits neither my principles: Gilles 115

  believe in the esteem: Ferrus 216

  with all the grace: La Tour du Pin 209

  spitting blood…was paying dear…that she had…Hand me…He did not speak…Believe me…a sort of honour…I will not…have been useful: The next quotations, Lage de Volude 171, 172, 174
, 175, 175, 183, 185, 186, 176

  so out of…first she wanted to show…tears of joy: The next quotations, La Tour du Pin 216, 216, 219

  Anarchy from within…into the world: Palmer Twelve 5

  If the mainspring…and inflexible justice: Bienvenu 33

  We seek an order: Shulim 274

  The grocers continue…haven of happiness: Bienvenu 71–2

  Some wish to…tempest be steered: Palmer Twelve 129

  dangerous weakness…tears of repentance: HMW 1796 II, 164

  A revolution like ours: Bouloiseau 37

  the most daring courage: HMW 1796 I, 13

  who were not…of the earth: Gilles 136

  I cannot look at: Ferrus 281

  not to become…saluer mon papa: The next quotations, HMW 1796 II, 28; III, 186

  Adieu Loulou, adieu…going to die: Schama 820

  Among the victims…of its tenderness: HMW 1796 I, 213

  One can no…talk so loud: The next quotations, Blanc 64, 63

  Chapter 15 · LIBÉRATRICE

  Bordeaux seems to…portion of the…petite, menton rond: The next quotations, Gilles 148, 149–50 (excerpts from the document), 152

  All the papers relating to: Gastine 22

  Never did Robespierre pursue: Gilles 158, quoting Taschereau

  silent streets and barricaded doors: Frènilly 124

  Everyone seemed to slip through: Lacretelle 129

  Women did not…doors securely closed: Frénilly 125

  to see what sort of: HMW 1796 II, 67

  impairing the purity of: Schama 837

  Arbitrary power against which: Staël Considerations II, 33

  crowded with commissaries and soldiers: HMW 1796 I, 10

  an important component: Cobb The French 17

  Let her look in: Gilles 165

  The true priest…and feeling hearts: Schama 831

  proclaim himself king, open: Hortense I, 36

  When we are mothers: Ozouf 116

  You may kill…round with iron: Yonge I, 180

  United by the…No, he wants nothing…to the scaffold: The next quotations HMW 1796 I, 19; II, 102; II, 102

  unworthy of a…any political matter: WRP 231

  he who would have been: Hortense I, 34

  A natural sentiment and: WRP 160

  state of madness…suspect remarks: Ernst 283

  If you are…would second me: Roudinesco 147

  neither in his…of the people: Gilles 172

  was the Terror itself: Barras I, 264

  incapable of personal…at an end: Staël Considerations II, 142

  Tallien contended for two lives: Fouché I, 16

  that is to say…courage; calm yourself: Ouvrard I, 18

  I will go to my: Ferrus 406

 

‹ Prev