Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France (56 page)

the birthday of a new
: Paine 65

under the simple and rustic
: Brissot
Life
7

greatly superior to…circumstances are favourable
: Paulson 12

I desire you…voice or Representation
: Applewhite and Levy 181

We regret this promised land
: Roland
Lettres
II, 80

disgust with the revolution
: Tocqueville 209

We must make…lack, but soul
: The next quotations, Roland
Lettres
II, 274, 276

500 heads would have sufficed
: Gottschalk 121

was not just an unfortunate
: Schama 447

infamous treason…of these monsters
:
WRP
159

asked what was meant
: Roland
Memoirs
82

superfluity
: Bizardel 86

keeping the king…an indescribable enthusiasm
: The next quotations, Roland
Lettres
II, 310, 325

On the royal family’s return to Paris: Schama 557

the Jacobins passed…incompatible with liberty
: The next quotations, Roland Lettres II, 309, 325, 305, 317, 313

women, sisters, and Roman women
:
WRP
79

comme tous les bons
: Applewhite and Levy 81

without interruption
:
WRP
159

I need to see my
: May 195

Paris is as still
: Jullien 41

as absolute, moral concepts
: Outram in Porter 121

who desecrate words merely
: Berger 105

one whose energy…justice from individuals
: May 195–6

Roland, nèe Phlipon
: Roland
Lettres
II, 388

had already singled…intimate and unbreakable
: Roland
Memoirs
84

Women are now…from the revolution
:
WRP
87–96

Although I am…to be geese
:
WRP
99

rushing around from nine o’clock
: Staël
CG
II, part 2, 310

What a triumph…not their dupe
: Fairweather 124

to the most…were equally distinguished
: Staël
Considerations
II, 40

Ah! You overwhelm me
: Gay III, 51

Imagine, my Lord, no buckles
: Roland
Memoirs
61

Chapter 6 · AMAZONE

provoked and irritated…ineffectually…So much…left side…the famous…betray their secrets
: The next quotations, Roudinesco 64, 65, 64, 65, 55

particularly dangerous for…the French revolution
: The next quotations, Ernst 39, 42

how it was…grave political crimes…the delightful person…As far as politics…This tyranny…This vision…prisoner’s sworn enemies
: The next quotations, Roudinesco 58, 58, 58, 71, 71, 71, 62

the accused seems to be
: Ernst 206

luminous and surprising…to her principles
: The next quotations, Roudinesco 75, 79

I can announce…the women’s tribune
: Ernst 249

president of her…long a time
: The next quotations, Roudinesco 92, 96–7

for having escaped…they are citoyennes
: Applewhite and Levy 90

she will serve her
: Villiers 76

to find their household
: Roudinesco 100

Women have shared…to both sexes
:
WRP
123

our most illustrious…celebration of insurrection
: The next quotations, Dowd 56, 64

provide a mirror in which
: Ozouf 23

Plant a stake crowned with
: Dowd 81

I was there…festival of the people
: Jullien 67

Whatever one may say
: Ozouf 66

The pikes of the people
: Applewhite and Levy 89

Jacobins’ strumpet
: Roudinesco 94

a manhunter, mad for men
: Ernst 256

rèpublique
: Landes 21

our shameful institutions…range the forests
: Plutarch III, 426

the women who…all their scars
: Roudinesco 105

Since we cannot find men
: Ernst 263

constantly undermined the arrangements
: Roland
Memoirs
87

aimed at a…to their friends
: The next quotations, Staël
Considerations
II, 28, 30

at the centre…me no rest
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
62, 89

I hope only to be
: May 212

an ardent lover…your mortal enemies
: Roland
Lettres
II, 417

proved his lack…for the Republic
: Roland
Memoirs
89

will be accomplished…revolutions become necessary
: Schama 605

the most pure language
: Gidney 12

I would never…was worth something
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
91, 97, 98

the tree of liberty grows
: Paulson 24

in the most profound…What a triumph
: Jullien 134

the heart of…this play-acting
: Schama 607

la femme du roi was
: Jullien 139

like a last cry
: Yalom 154

He seemed a sacred victim
: Staël
Considerations
, II, 53

the pleasure of…in actual possession
: Gower I, 46

Let us strike this colossus
: Schama 612

Pauvre Louis…but of them
: The next quotations, Jullien 206, 194, 217

They all seemed…mirth and enjoyment
: Moore
Journal
I, 5

monotonous, mournful and rapid
: Staël
Considerations
II, 66

citoyennes without citizenhood
: Godineau 122

stabbed, sabred, stoned and clubbed
: Schama 615

to fight the…in my place
:
WRP
159

Citizens, the National Assembly
: Roudinesco 113

carrying one of his children
: Moore
Journal
I, 32

Day of blood
: Jullien 217

Chapter 7 · ÉMIGRÉE

as much distinguished by his
: Moore
Journal
I, 117

that men were born equal
: Brissot
Life
7

no longer possible
: Staël
CG
II, part 2, 354

Not a carriage was
: Frènilly 115

with death in…an equal footing
: Staël
Considérations
II, 68

At last I can hope
: Staël
CG
II, part 1, 1

You have saved my life
: Staël
Lettres à Narbonne
51

A little English phlegm
: Moore
Journal
I, 63. Moore was actually writing about the debates at the National Assembly for exactly this period

Applauders and murmurers are
: Moore
Journal
I, 126

a man devoted to public
: Jullien 120

distinguished herself in the action
: Moore
Journal
I, 70

Citizens, no nation…have been over
: Schama 628

ravening wolves
: Roland
Memoirs
68

the first battle we shall
: Schama 630

rise and let the blood
: Gottschalk 124

good citizens to…departure of citizens
: The next quotations, Schama 630, 630, 631

une heure un…in his vanity
: Staël
Considérations
II, 71

All Paris saw…easily have prevented
: Roland
Memoirs
71

profound and sombre silence
: Schama 634

the terrible details…torn to pieces
: Loomis 83

naked, quivering bodies
: Cobb
The French
143

nothing but cutting…of the massacre
: The next quotations, Gutwirth 309, 339, 340

asking for it
: Linda Orr in Melzer and Rabine, 124

a swarm of…under a vault…sink into it
: The next quotations, Staël
Considerations
II, 71, 73, 77

dying of hunger, of thirst
: Staël
Considérations
II, 77

with their arms…on our minds
: The next quotations, Staël
Considerations
II, 73, 78

Is it possible…lamenting their fate
: The next quotations, Moore
Journal
I, 184, 185, 199

three years of…know the French
: The next quotations, Jullien 285, 298

Anarchy is rampant…will enforce it
: Bouloiseau 11

he was neither…they blew cold
: Hardman 54

Kings are to the moral
: Roudinesco 121

She shared all my fears
: Ferrus 137

symbols of despotism
: Houssaye 54

designated victims
: Bearne 125

woman of rank
: Moore
Journal
I, 255

The visible signs of patriotism
: HMW 1796 I, 193

a tailor of the ancien
: Loomis 276

poudrè, frisé, parfumé
: Ribeiro 84

Toi suits citizen…of good manners
: Soboul
Parisian Sans-Culottes
227

a mutual estimation
: Tomalin 165

gay ornamental drapery
: Landes 131

very disagreeable
: Wollstonecraft 220

Do not kill…evil you do
: The next quotations, Staël
CG
II, part 1, 16, 51

There can be nothing imagined
: Burney 235

I love you…kind of doubt
: The next quotations, Staël
CG
II, part 1, 41, 35, 95–6

Chapter 8 · FEMME POLITIQUE

Ferocious in face…evil reputation
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
65 (trans. Loomis 201), 171, 65, 64

If the gratification
: Moore
Journal
II, 148

and that there was no
: Roland
Memoirs
64

generous ideas…obstinate assurance
: Barras I, 104

They had no…use her pen
: Roland
Memoirs
66

had been unable either to
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Roux) 20

Most of them thought
: Roland
Memoirs
69

You know that I do
: Loomis 76

that fanatical
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Roux) 124

I don’t give a damn
: Roland
Memoirs
44

necessary to appease the people
: Schama 633

this personal predicament enabled
: Roland
Memoirs
72