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Title: History of Madame Roland
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
Subjects: Roland, Mme (Marie-Jeanne), 1754-1793
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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HISTORY MADAME ROLAND. JOHN S. C. ABBOTT. a©ftf) aEnfltabfnfls. NEW YORK:HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousandeight hundred and fifty, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern Districtof New York. PREFACE. The history of Madame Roland embraces themost interesting events of the French Revolu-tion, that most instructive tragedy which timehas yet enacted. There is, perhaps, containedin the memoirs of no other woman so much toinvigorate the mind with the desire for highintellectual culture, and so much to animatethe spirit heroically to meet all the ills of thiseventful life. Notwithstanding her experienceof the heaviest temporal calamities, she found,in the opulence of her own intellectual treas-ures, an unfailing resource. These inward joyspeopled her solitude with society, and dispelledeven from the dungeon its gloom. I know notwhere to look for a career more fullhistoryofmadamerolabbo

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