Roland, Makers of History, by John S. C. Abbott

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Title: Madame Roland, Makers of History

Author: John S. C. Abbott

Release Date: March 30, 2009 [EBook #28445]

Language: English

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Makers of History

Madame Roland

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 eight hundred and fifty, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

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

[Illustration: MADAME ROLAND.]

PREFACE.

The history of Madame Roland embraces the most interesting events of the French Revolution, that most instructive tragedy which time has yet enacted. There is, perhaps, contained in the memoirs of no other woman so much to invigorate the mind with the desire for high intellectual culture, and so much to animate the spirit heroically to meet all th

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