⁂ Mariana, the lady betrothed to Angelo, passed her sorrowful hours “at the Moated Grange.” Thus the duke says to Isabella:
Haste you speedily to Angelo ... I will presently to St. Luke’s. There, at the moated grange, resides the dejected Mariana.—Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1 (1603).
Marianne (3 syl.), a statuette to which the red republicans of France pay homage. It symbolizes the republic, and is arrayed in a red Phrygian cap. This statuette is sold at earthenware shops, and in republican clubs, enthroned in glory, and sometimes it is carried in procession to the tune of the Marseillaise. (See Mary Anne.)
The reason seems to be this: Ravaillac, the assassin of Henri IV. (the Harmodius or Aristogīton of France), was honored by the red republicans as “patriot, deliverer, and martyr.” This regicide was incited to his deed of blood by reading the celebrated treatise De Rege et Regio Institutione, by Mariana the Jesuit, published 1599 (about ten years previously). As Mariana inspired Ravaillac “to deliver France from her tyrant” (Henri IV.), the name was attached to the statuette of liberty, and the republican party generally.
The association of the name with the guillotine favors this suggestion.
Marianne (3 syl.), the heroine of a French novel so called by Marivaux (1688-1763).
(This novel terminates abruptly, with a conclusion like that of Zadig, “where nothing is concluded.”)
Marianne [Franval], sister of Franval the advocate. She is a beautiful, loving, gentle creature, full of the deeds of kindness, and brimming over with charity. Marianne loves Captain St. Alme, a merchant’s son, and though her mother opposes the match as beneath the rank of the family, the advocate pleads for his sister, and the lovers are duly betrothed to each other.—T. Holcroft, The Deaf and Dumb (1785).
Marie Antoinette. Beautiful Austrian Queen of Louis XVI. of France. Dethroned and guillotined in the French Revolution of 1793.
Marie (Countess), the mother of Ul´rica (a love-daughter), the father of Ulrica being Ernest de Fridberg, “the prisoner of State.” Marie married Count D’Osborn, on condition of his obtaining the acquittal of her lover, Ernest de Fridberg; but the count broke his promise, and even attempted to get the prisoner smothered in his dungeon. His villainy being made known, the king ordered him to be executed, and Ernest, being set at liberty, duly married the Countess Marie.—E. Stirling, The Prisoner of State (1847).