Conversations et correspondance de M. Champy avec M. Roland.
À M. Roland de la Platière sur sa “Lettre au Roi,” 17 Juillet, 1792.
Almanach des Bizarreries Humaines. Par J. C. Bailleul. 1889.
INDEX
- Abbaye, Madame Roland imprisoned in the, [261] et seq.
- Antoine, [145].
- Assembly, National, see National Assembly.
- Barbaroux, and the Rolands, their plans, [202]–205, [206];
- his fate, [309]–311.
- Beaumarchais, his Figaro first given, [85];
- quoted, [121].
- Beugnot, Comte, his words concerning Madame Roland in prison, [296], [299].
- Buzot, François-Nicolas-Léonard, at the home of the Rolands, [145];
- Madame Roland’s passion for, [224], [225];
- his early career, [226], [227];
- attracts Madame Roland, [227];
- his nature, [228];
- correspondence with Madame Roland, [228], [230];
- his wife not his equal, [227], [230];
- his personal attractions, [231], [232];
- his love for Madame Roland, [230], [234], [242]–244;
- his relations toward M. Roland, [244];
- his struggle against the Mountain party, [247]–249;
- his opinion of Danton and Robespierre, [247], [249];
- in harmony with M. Roland, [249];
- his efforts to prove his patriotism, [250];
- could not approve the Terrorists, [250], [251];
- his relations with the Rolands well understood, [251];
- characterized by Marat as frère tranquille, [251];
- his words on the Republic, [255]–257;
- flees from Paris to Evreux, [262], [263];
- Madame Roland’s letters to, from prison, [274]–280;
- his last days and death, [309]–311.
- Cannet, Henriette, offers to take Madame Roland’s place in prison, [292].
- Cannet, Sophie, Manon Phlipon’s friendship with, [12]–15.
- Cercle Social, the, patriotic club, [142], [143].
- Chalier, sent home to Lyons by Roland “with honors,” [211].
- Champagneux, M., starts the Courrier de Lyon, [128];
- Champagneux, brother of above, husband of Eudora Roland, [98], [308].
- Champ-de-Mars, the massacre of, [162], [163].
- Chauveau-Lagarde, ambitious to defend Madame Roland in her trial, [299].
- Clavière, at the home of the Rolands, [145]–147.
- Commune, the, [208];
- Conciergerie, Madame Roland imprisoned in the, [292], [295], [296].
- Condorcet, his pamphlet on “Whether a king is necessary to the conservation of energy,” [159].
- Constitution, the, formed by the Assembly and accepted by Louis XVI., [168], [169].
- Constitutionalist party, the, [174].
- Convention, National, see National Assembly.
- Conversation, French, character of, [147], [148].
- Creuzé-la-Touche, shelters Eudora Roland, [306].
- Dames de la Congrégation de Notre Dame, Convent, Manon Phlipon at, [9] et seq.;
- instruction given at, [10].
- Danton, at the head of the insurrectionary element, [205], [206], [214];
- Desmoulins, Camille, his inability to understand the general admiration for Madame Roland, [151], [152], [206].
- Dumas, Mathieu, his words on the publication of Roland’s letter to the King, [198].
- Dumont, his comment on Madame Roland’s persuading her husband to publish his letter to the King, [198].
- Dumouriez, General, Madame Roland’s distrust of, [181], [182];
- Roland made overtures to, [223].
- Encyclopédie méthodique, M. Roland’s contributions to, [76], [77].
- Faugère, M. P., and the Roland Memoirs, [308], [309].
- Feuillants, the, [176], [189], [201].
- Financial errors of the French government, [113]–117, [121], [122].
- France, financial errors of the government, [113]–117, [121], [122].
- Garaud, [146].
- Garran, [145].
- Genlis, Madame de, her lack of knowledge at twelve, [10].
- Gironde, the party of the, character and principles of, [171]–176;
- Gluck, his Danaïdes first given, [85].
- Grandpré, his assistance to Madame Roland in prison, [269], [270].
- Grégoire, [146].
- Greuze, Manon Phlipon’s visit to, [57], [58].
- Guillon de Montléon, Abbé, his words concerning M. Roland, [91];
- Hannaches, Mademoiselle d’, and Manon Phlipon, [19], [20].
- Heinsius, his portrait of Madame Roland, [152], [153].
- Insurrection, party of the, [205]–207.
- Jacobins, too conservative for the Rolands, [143];
- the Girondins join, [205].
- Lafayette, Marquis de, [157], [200].
- Lanthenas, and the Rolands, [127], [128], [216], [233], [237].
- Le Clos, the country home of M. and Madame Roland, [94] et seq.;
- Louis Noailles, [145].
- Louise, Madame, sister of Louis XVI., did not know her alphabet at twelve, [10].
- Louis XVI., appears with Marie Antoinette in the National Assembly, [129], [130];
- his flight and return, [156]–159;
- “worse than a stick in a wheel,” [158];
- efforts to secure a trial of, [161], [162];
- accepts the constitution, [168];
- names a cabinet to suit the Girondins, [178];
- Madame Roland doubts the good faith of, [183];
- hesitates to sign measure to raise army for protection of Paris against foreign attack, [189];
- Roland’s letter to, concerning the public perils, [190]–199;
- his words to Roland concerning the letter, [197];
- the red cap placed on his head in the riot of the 20th of June, [200].
- Lyons, M. and Madame Roland at, [91]–93;
- Mandat, murdered, [208].
- Marat, joins the Commune, [212];
- Marie Antoinette, her appearance in the National Assembly, [129], [130];
- her flight, [156].
- Mesmer-study, [85].
- Mirabeau, Madame Roland’s words concerning, [290].
- Morris, Gouverneur, quoted, [163];
- his words concerning the attitude of affairs in Paris, [177].
- Mountain party, the, its character, [174]–176;
- National Assembly, the, [124];
- King and Marie Antoinette appear in, [129], [130];
- Madame Roland’s dissatisfaction with, [129]–131, [138]–142;
- M. Roland a deputy to, [138];
- measure to raise army to protect Paris against attack of foreigners, voted by, [189];
- Roland’s letter to the King presented to the, [197]–199;
- Madame Roland appears before the Convention, [253];
- struggle in, between the Mountain and Gironde parties, [255];
- expulsion and trial of members of the Gironde, [259];
- Madame Roland’s letter to, from prison, [269], [270].
- Noailles, Louis, [145].
- Notre Dame des Marais, the Gothic church at Villefranche, [88].
- Nouvelle Héloïse, Rousseau’s, its influence on Manon Phlipon, [32]–35.
- Paine, Thomas, at the home of the Rolands, [146];
- forms a republican society in Paris, [159].
- Paris, gold and silver smiths in the western end of, [1];
- Pétion, at the home of the Rolands, [145];
- Phlipon, Madame, mother of Manon Phlipon, her character, [3];
- Phlipon, Marie-Jeanne, called Manon, afterwards Madame Roland, her parents, [2]–6;
- her birth, [5];
- her character as a child, [5], [6];
- early reading and education, [6] et seq.;
- effect of Plutarch’s Lives on, [7], [8];
- her religions zeal, [9];
- enters the convent, Dames de la Congrégation de Notre Dame, [9], [10];
- her life and work there, [10]–14;
- her friendship with Sophie Cannet, [12]–15;
- her piety, [11], [12];
- her letters to Sophie Cannet, [14], [15];
- her secret resolve to return to convent life, [15];
- her dislike for the vanities of life, [16], [17], [20], [21];
- her love of nature, [17];
- Meudon her favorite spot, [17];
- her visit to Madame de Boismorel, [18], [19];
- her early contempt for the social conditions, [19]–21;
- a secretary to Mademoiselle d’Hannaches, [20];
- makes an eight-day visit to Versailles, [21];
- her description of her impressions there, [22];
- her attitude toward the King and government at twenty years of age, [22]–24;
- prefers a republic, [22], [23];
- her reading after leaving the convent, [24]–26;
- her cahiers, [26];
- deeply interested in philosophy, [26], [27];
- studies Christian dogma severely and rationally, [27], [28];
- her mental and spiritual condition, [28]–30;
- the influence of Rousseau’s Nouvelle Héloïse on, [31]–35;
- her words concerning Rousseau and his works, [34], [35];
- her notions of a future husband, [35]–38;
- applicants for her hand, [35], [36];
- her love affair with Pahin de la Blancherie, [38]–44;
- her Loisirs, [40], [58];
- her interest in Sainte-Lettre, [44], [45];
- refuses M. de Sévelinges, [46], [47];
- her interest in Roland de la Platière, [45], [52], [53];
- her interest in M. Pittet, [54];
- the dulness of her life, [54];
- her visit to Rousseau, [55], [56];
- her visit to Greuze, [57], [58];
- her relations with her father, [58], [59];
- conceals from Sophie Cannet her feeling for Roland de la Platière, [60];
- Platonic arrangement with Roland, [61];
- correspondence between Roland and, [61]–69;
- difficulty with her father in her betrothal to M. Roland, [67]–69;
- leaves her father, and retires to the convent, [69], [70];
- marries Roland, [71];
- her account in her Memoirs of the courtship and marriage, [71], [72].
- See Roland, Madame.
- Phlipon, Pierre Gatien, his engraving shop, [2], [3];
- Pittet, M., Manon Phlipon’s interest in, [54].
- Plutarch’s Lives, effect of, on Manon Phlipon, [7], [8].
- Rebecqui, [202].
- Republic, excitement at the name of, [158]–160;
- not welcomed by the people, [161].
- Republican, the, journal, [159], [160].
- Robespierre, at home of the Rolands, [145];
- Revolution, the French, the Rolands welcomed, [112] et seq.;
- preliminary outbreaks of, [117]–120;
- the word révolution long used in private, [118];
- call for States-General in 1788, [123];
- the fall of the Bastille, [124];
- disorders in Lyons, [134]–137;
- rumors of a Prussian and Russian invasion, [137];
- the Revolutionary temper, [149];
- the flight and return of the king, [156]–159;
- the massacre of the Champ-de-Mars, [162], [163];
- disorders and riots everywhere, [183], [184];
- the riot of the 20th of June, [199], [200];
- the insurrectionary element organizing, [206], [207];
- the Commune, [208], [212], [213];
- the September massacres, [219]–222;
- the execution of the twenty-one Girondins, [290];
- the daily life of Parisians during, [293], [294].
- Roland, Eudora, daughter of Madame Roland, born, [75];
- Roland, the chanoine, brother of M. Roland, [89], [140].
- Roland, Madame, first year of married life, [73]–75;
- at Amiens, [75];
- her child, [75];
- helping her husband on the Encyclopédie, [77];
- absorbed in her domestic life, [78];
- her efforts in Paris to secure a title for her husband, [79]–84;
- secures for her husband the position of inspector at Lyons, [84];
- her correspondence with her husband while in Paris, [85], [86];
- interest in Mesmerism, [85];
- returns to Amiens, [85], [86];
- trip to England, [86];
- life at Villefranche-sur-Saône, [87] et seq.;
- her relations toward M. Roland’s mother and brother, [89], [90];
- in correspondence with Bosc, [90];
- not pleased with and not popular at Villefranche, [90], [91];
- not pleased with Lyons, [92];
- home life at Le Clos, [94], [99]–111;
- education of her daughter, [102];
- her letters on Rousseau’s Julie and the education of children, [103]–108;
- her devotion to her husband unabated during life at Le Clos, [108], [109];
- her trip to Switzerland, [109], [110];
- a sympathetic witness of preliminary outbreaks of the Revolution, [112], [117] et seq.;
- cramped for money after marriage, [120];
- her idea of “complete regeneration” of social affairs, [124], [125];
- her political convictions and plan of action, [125]–133;
- her influence over her husband and friends, [126]–129;
- her words after the fall of the Bastille, [129];
- concerning the King’s and Marie Antoinette’s appearance in the National Assembly, [129], [130];
- displeased with the constitution, [130];
- her firmness, [132];
- detested in Lyons, [138];
- her dissatisfaction with the National Assembly, [129]–131, [138]–142;
- goes up to Paris, [138], [140];
- her irritation at the aristocrats, [142];
- gives up going to theatres, and goes to political clubs, [142], [143];
- her words concerning Jacobins, [143];
- her esteem for Brissot, [145];
- her comments on the discussions of patriots that gathered at her house, [146]–148;
- her words on the necessity of uniting efforts, [148], [149];
- her supremacy over group of patriots around her, [149], [150];
- her inflexibility, [150];
- her personal charms, [150]–152;
- the portraits of, [152]–154;
- her joy at the flight of the King, [156], [157];
- her words on the return of the King, [158];
- endeavors to secure a trial of the King, [161], [162];
- she loses heart, and returns from Paris to Villefranche, [164];
- her disgust with Lyons, [165];
- her disappointment in her child, [166];
- decides to return to Paris, [166], [167];
- her ideal of government unsatisfied, [169], [170];
- her supreme confidence in herself, [170];
- considered herself better than her husband, [170];
- her feeling against the old régime, [170];
- her attitude on her return to Paris, [176], [177];
- her life and habits after her husband entered the Ministry of the Interior, [179], [180];
- her influence in choosing persons for positions in the department, [180], [181];
- her mistrust of General Dumouriez and others, [181], [182];
- doubts the good faith of the King, [183];
- her measures to meet perils threatening Paris, [188] et seq.;
- she writes letter to the King concerning the perils, [190];
- persuades her husband to publish the letter to the King, [197], [198];
- meets Barbaroux, [201], [202];
- her plan carried, [210];
- her antipathy to Danton, [214]–217;
- her words concerning Robespierre, Marat, and Danton, [221], [222];
- her disgust at the brutal turn of affairs in the Revolution, [222];
- attacked by Marat, [222], [223];
- would not compromise with the insurrectionary force, [223], [225];
- her passion for Buzot, [224], [225], [227]–244;
- her first interest in Buzot, [227], [228];
- her correspondence with Buzot, [228]–230;
- her disillusionment in regard to the Revolution, [230], [231];
- her hope in Buzot, [231];
- attracted by Buzot’s personal charms, [231], [232];
- the waning of her affection for her husband and of her friendship with Bosc, Lanthenas, and Bancal, [233];
- her notions of duty and devotion, [234];
- her relations with various friends during her life, [235]–241;
- influenced by the “new ideas” of love and marriage, she accepts the love of Buzot, [242], [243];
- she tells her husband of her love for Buzot, [243];
- her relations to her husband thereafter, [244];
- Danton’s words concerning, [245];
- holds her place in the struggle, [251];
- abused by Marat, [252];
- her position compared with that of Marie Antoinette, [252];
- appears before the Convention, [253];
- danger to her life, [253], [254];
- attempts to leave Paris, but falls ill, [258];
- her vain endeavor to reach the Convention to plead her husband’s cause, [259]–261;
- put under arrest, [261], [262];
- her imprisonment in the Abbaye and Sainte Pélagie, [264], [265];
- her fortitude in prison, [266], [267];
- made a prominent actor in the public tragedy by her imprisonment, [267], [268];
- her letters from prison to the Convention and to the ministers, [269], [270];
- her conversation with a committee visiting her prison, [270], [271];
- defending herself against accusations and calumnies, [271]–273;
- her “Last Thoughts,” [273], [284];
- doubt as to the object of her passion alluded to in her last letters, [274];
- her letters to Buzot from prison, [274]–280;
- would ultimately have left Roland for Buzot, [280];
- her life and occupations in prison, [280]–283;
- her Historical Notes written at the Abbaye prison, [283], [284];
- her Memoirs and other writings, [284]–289;
- rapidity and ease with which she wrote, [285];
- Rousseau’s Confessions the model of her Memoirs, [287], [288];
- her anguish and despair, [289], [290];
- her words concerning Mirabeau, [290];
- she resolves to kill herself, [291];
- conveyed to the Conciergerie, [292];
- refuses assistance from her friends, [292];
- had hoped, during her imprisonment, for a popular uprising, [292], [293];
- her life in the Conciergerie, [295], [296];
- her second examination, [296]–298;
- her defence, [298];
- her trial, [299], [300];
- sentenced to death, [301];
- her words to Chauveau-Lagarde, refusing his assistance as counsel, [299];
- her trip to the guillotine, and death, [301], [302].
- See Phlipon, Marie-Jeanne.
- Roland de la Platière, M., [45];
- his position and career, [47]–51;
- his character and disposition, [51], [52];
- first acquaintance with Manon Phlipon, [53];
- professes love for Manon Phlipon, [60];
- Platonic arrangement with Manon, [61];
- correspondence between Manon and, [61]–69;
- annoyances and obstacles in his love affair with Manon, [67]–70;
- marries Manon, [71];
- the first year after his marriage, [73], [74];
- his contribution to the Encyclopédie méthodique, [76], [77];
- ambitious to obtain a title, [78], [79];
- the general prejudice against, [81], [82];
- his wife obtains for him the position of inspector of commerce at Lyons, [84];
- his letters to his wife while she was in Paris, [85], [86];
- trip to England, [86];
- his life at Villefranche-sur-Saône, [87] et seq.;
- his mother and brother, [88]–90;
- disliked in the Academy of Villefranche, [91];
- the Abbé Guillon’s words concerning, [91];
- his manuscripts in the archives of the Academy of Lyons, [92], [93];
- home life at Le Clos, [94] et seq.;
- sympathized with preliminary outbreaks of the Revolution, [112] et seq.;
- appreciated the financial errors of the French government, [113]–116;
- labors against the abuses of the realm, [120];
- poverty after marriage, [120];
- his wife’s influence over, [126], [127];
- becomes embroiled in Lyons, [134]–138;
- detested in Lyons, [138];
- goes to Paris as deputy to the National Assembly, [138];
- his words concerning Jacobins, [143];
- hard at work in Paris, [143], [144];
- his zealous spirit, [144];
- gathering of patriots at home of, [145]–147;
- pronounces the King “worse than a stick in a wheel,” [158];
- his pamphlet on the “Advantages of the flight of the king, etc.,” [159];
- his words on the riot in the Champ-de-Mars, [162], [163];
- appointed to head of Department of Interior on Girondin ministry, [177]–179;
- pictured by the Mercure as one of the principal agitators of Lyons, [178];
- his life and duties as minister, [179], [180];
- his formulas in reply to requests of departments that he suppress disorders, [185]–187;
- his conduct exasperating, [188];
- his letter to the King concerning the perils threatening Paris, [190]–196;
- discharged from the ministry, [197];
- presents his letter to the Assembly, [197]–199;
- meets and plans with Barbaroux, [201]–205;
- everywhere upheld the Jacobin party, [211];
- his great energy, [212];
- hindered in activity by the Commune, [212]–214;
- at cross-purposes with Danton, [217];
- antagonized Marat, [218], [219];
- protests against the September massacres, [219]–221;
- orders Santerre to quell disorder, [221];
- attacked by Marat, [222];
- makes overtures to Dumouriez, [223];
- Madame Roland informs him of her love for Buzot, [243];
- resigns from the ministry, [245];
- withdraws his resignation, [246];
- his struggle against the Mountain party, [247];
- his retirement, [254], [255];
- neglected by the Convention, [254], [255], [258];
- arrested, [259];
- in concealment, [276];
- his last days and death, [303]–305.
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques, the prophet of the sentimental generation, [32];
- Sainte-Lettre, M. de, and Manon Phlipon, [44], [45].
- Sainte Pélagie, the prison of, [281], [282].
- Sanson, the headsman, and Madame Roland, [302].
- Santerre, [206], [221].
- Servan, in the ministry with Roland, [188], [189];
- discharged from the ministry, [197].
- Sévelinges, M. de, Manon Phlipon declines hand of, [46], [47].
- Staël, Madame de, her words concerning Girondins, [173], [174].
- Taxes, heavy previous to the Revolution, [113]–116, [121], [122].
- Tissot, his words concerning Madame Roland, [151].
- Vergniaud, [201].
- Villefranche-sur-Saône, [87] et seq.;
- Volfius, [145].
- Williams, Miss, Bancal’s love for, [233], [241].
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.