Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France (55 page)

Chapter 2 · FILLE SANS-CULOTTE

Next year, you’ll be behind
: Vigèe-Lebrun 71

There go some more
: La Tour du Pin 145

no riotous scene…groundswell of menace
: Ozouf 39

comic and abusive verse
: Hufton 21

The women of…when everyone is trying…if we are left…We ask to be enlightened…the…fatherland in danger
: The next quotations,
WRP
53, 18, 19, 20, 158

and, with a spirit worthy
: HMW 1790 27

for the happy revolution
: Kelly 19, quoting
Le Moniteur
for 9 Aug. 1789

more from duty…obliged to resist
: Staël
Considerations
I, 271

men didn’t understand anything about
:
WRP
35

sweep away the…the fine one
: The next quotations, Schama 459, 460

men were not strong enough
:
WRP
37, quoting Maillard

the beating down of gates
: Ozouf 126

the sycophant Lafayette…slit their throats
: The next quotations,
WRP
44, 45

The town is…the female mob
: Morris I, 242–3

Motion of the…Who Sell Fish
: Schama 457

Every eye was turned
: Staël
Considerations
1, 339

You must not be seen
: Boigne 58

had been forced to march
: La Tour du Pin 130

Habits of formality…uttering wild cries
: The next quotations, Boigne 58

horrid yells and…advantages of education
: Paulson 80

to bring back the queen’s head
:
WRP
48

We suffer more…across our shoulders
: The next quotations, Gutwirth 245, 244

Since that time…Watch with more exactitude…unworthy of us
: The next quotations,
WRP
159, 67

women were neither too weak
…: Kennedy I, 90

at Creil…and Limoges
: Villiers 28, 88, 89, 91, 102

all politics and…electrified hearts
:
WRP
85

We want to save
: Dupuy 63

a Frenchwoman inflamed with love
: Villiers 70

we do not venture to come
: Roudinesco 88

in Tonneins, the local Jacobins
…: Kennedy I, 92

Your predecessors deposited…raised to the ranks…fatherland in danger
: The next quotations,
WRP
72, 73, 74

Chapter 3 · CLUBISTE

the colour of blood
: Roudinesco 197, quoting Lamartine

amante de carnage
: Baudelaire,
Sisina

sought a man…vaillante, infortunée Liégoise
: The next quotations, Michelet,
Femmes
153, 147

suspended between literary bohemianism
: Roudinesco 9

covered in diamonds
: Roudinesco 10, quoting Thomas d’Espinchal

general effervescence
: Ernst 87

descending into the…multitude
: Kelly 11

did not witness the main
: Ernst 88, 105

to play the role
: Ernst 89

How the months, the days
: Rosa 19

set up the tricoloured cockade
: Yonge I, 126

professional coquette
: Roudinesco 201

the kept woman…a free person
: Schama 463

What most impressed…a heroic air
: Roudinesco 5

My devotion to…the most worthy…public
: The next quotations, Ernst 90, 82

We should bear…are those of…the liberty of…with Spartan pride
: The next quotations, Roudinesco 38, 39, 39, 28

because of my patriotism
: Ernst 91

One might call…National embryo…unrest was greatest
: The next quotations, Roudinesco 30, 32, 31

The reign of…with private virtues
: Gutwirth 286

as the whirlwind attracts
: Roudinesco 196

It is care-free and so
: Schama 525

incompatible with liberty
: Ernst 92

As soon as they began
: Kotzebue II, 112

It is the Queen
: Michelet
Femmes
150

Mlle Thèroigne and those of
: Roudinesco 42

women were the soul of
: Aulard
Histoire politique
97

reading and interpreting the decrees
: Villiers 43

He who votes…catch a cold
: Roudinesco 46

the club of women
: Cerati 25

the tyranny which men exercise
: Roudinesco 71

there being a woman in
…: Ernst 95

Chapter 4 · MONDAINE

The tranquillity of France
: Gower I, 28

sans joie comme sans chagrin
: Bourquin 57

her good and…profound immorality
: Marcourt 42

of all the…prostituted
: Frénilly 154

Even the men…taught to respect
: Herold 69

What social disaster…were considered provincial
: The next quotations, La Tour du Pin 17, 27

There is nothing in love
: Goncourt 112

adultery in itself was nothing
: Rousseau
Confessions
190

dethroned…delicious
: Bourquin 71

but extremely en beau
: Bickley 64

no more beautiful…radiant femininity
: La Tour du Pin 196–7

of caressing magic
: Lacour 66

When they converse…Everything tiresome…than to listen
: The next quotations, HMW 1790 70, 74, 43

A list of putative members
…: Ernst 105

women of the…shocking and ridiculous
: The next quotations, Genlis IV, 93, 92

The Revolution naturally descended
: Staël
Considerations
I, 347

comme dans une…Dame de Fontenay
: Houssaye 37

The following summer, a similar
…: Cobban I, 168

inspired by the same spirit
: HMW 1790 7

I honour no less
: Ozouf 47

Ladies took the instruments
: HMW 1790 7

victim to an excess
: Herold 101

to be faithful forever to
: Dowd 46

The French revolution is cemented
: HMW 1790 15

What is it to me
: Schama 512

no fatal gap had yet
: Ozouf 35

This memorable day was
: Mercier
New Picture
I, 47

the most sublime spectacle
: HMW 1790 2

individual joy embodied…of the people
: The next quotations, Ozouf 57, 51, 60

Every man seems at pains
: HMW 1794 I, 172

We were transformed into
: Ribeiro 141

had inflamed more souls
: Dowd 2

the destruction of…destruction of despotism
: Genlis IV, 90

I have found…by the world
: HMW 1794 I, 143

altogether a most embarrassing person
: Herold 52

To avoid the…powerful, useful men
: Talleyrand I, 124

Though her eyes and smile
: Vigée-Lebrun 321

One praise I…well on horseback
: The next quotations, Genlis I 149, 167

derived less from Rousseau than
…: Bruce 18

corrupted everything within his reach
: La Tour du Pin 83

had a real esteem
: Genlis IV, 87

had never been…food against famine
: Frènilly 100

which they desired…to stop them
: Berry I, 347–8

when age and ill health make
: Roland,
Memoirs
151

emigration became all the vogue
: La Tour du Pin 116

an act of…dead or faithful
: The next quotations, Staël
Considerations
II, 2, 4

stronger, more distinct and more
: Berger 51

and at night, everybody
: Herold 106

a little too…resist his eloquence
: The next quotations, Bourquin 59, 63, 67

On Tallien and Thèrésia’s first meetings: Houssaye 39, 32

curieuse mythomanie
: Marcourt 52; also Bourquin 36

Chapter 5 · RÉPUBLICAINE

yawning over the papers
: Roland
Lettres
I, 653

But how can…to public affairs
: The next quotations, Roland
Lettres
II, 10, 56

I had hated kings since
: Roland
Memoirs
249

Let them tremble…demand…petit comitè…in our house
: The next quotations Roland
Lettres
II 53, 220, 754, 253

an expression of…attachment to liberty
: HMW 1796 I, 195–6

warm friend to liberty
: Hill 219

the true heroes of humanity
: Brissot
New Travels
15

admired his devotion…wasting his time
: Roland
Memoirs
80

only the witness
: Cobban I, 178

bons et
: Jullien 35

I knew the proper role…their time…I loved political…the astute Lameth
: The next quotations Roland
Memoirs
58, 58, 80, 57

very well satisfied…applauded with delight
: Roland
Lettres
II, 248

plain, undistinguished people…a menial task
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
125, 137

I should have been born
: Rosa 19

a new strength…They can kill me…individuals…in the future
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
133, 133, 174, 175

If souls were pre-existent
: May 29

a scene where feeble-minded people
: Roland
Memoirs
147

I cannot digest, among other
: May 31

the possibility of domestic happiness
: Roland
Memoirs
217

it is right to exclude
: Kelly 35

I am avid…in the background
: Roland
Memoirs
93

I have not read of
: Outram 138–9

Life was to her
: May 65

I knew that I was
: Roland
Memoirs
164

unbearable contrast between the grandeur
: Rousseau
La Nouvelle Héloïse
72

having concerned myself…the external…married in a…without crying…But of course…the world…I did not dare…no sex…as an affectionate…in remaining virtuous
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
199, 245, 245, 173, 170, 140–41, 163, 243, 246, 170

in truth, we are people
: Roland
Lettres
I, 394

virtue produces happiness
: Rudé
Robespierre
95