Identifier: historyofmadamerolabbo (find matches)
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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gardens ofthe Tuileries and the Elysian Fields, thenknown as the Place de la Revolution. Thisspot is now called the Place de la Concorde.It is unsurpassed by any other place in Europe.Two marble fountains now embellish the spot.The blood-stained guillotine, from which crim-son rivulets were ever flowing, then occupiedthe space upon which one of these fountains hasbeen erected; and a clay statue to Liberty rearedits hypocritical front where the Egyptian obe-lisk now rises. Madame Roland stood for a mo-ment upon the elevated platform, looked calm-ly around upon the vast concourse, and thenbowing before the colossal statue, exclaimed, O Liberty ! Liberty! how many crimes arecommitted in thy name. She surrendered her-self to the executioner, and was bound to theplank. The plank fell to its horizontal position,bringing her head under the fatal ax. The glit-tering steel glided through the groove, and thehead of Madame Roland was severed from herbody. Thus died Madame Roland, in the thirty-
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1793.) Trial and Execution. 303 Wonderful attachment. Grief of M. Roland. ninth year of her age. Her death oppressed allwho had known her with the deepest grief.Her intimate friend Buzot, who was then a fu-gitive, on hearing the tidings, was thrown intoa state of perfect delirium, from which he didnot recover for many days. Her faithful fe-male servant was so overwhelmed with grief,that she presented herself before the tribunal,and implored them to let her die upon the samescaffold where her beloved mistress had perish-ed. The tribunal, amazed at such transportsof attachment, declared that she was mad, andordered her to be removed from their presence.A man-servant made the same application, andwas sent to the guillotine. The grief of M. Roland, when apprised of theevent, was unbounded. For a time he entirelylost his senses. Life to him was no longer en-durable. He knew not of any consolations ofreligion. Philosophy could only nerve him tostoicism. Privately he left, by night, the kind

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