Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France (58 page)

by their rudeness…desire to share…One can put it…citoyennes patriotes
: The next quotations, Caron I, 92, 154, 192, 162

very much an…being an aristocrat…aristocracy to wear them
: The next quotations,
WRP
202, 203, 207

Down with red bonnets!
:
WRP
209–12

but adventurers, knights errant
: Soboul
BHÈSRF
26n.

violence and threats…the public safety
: These next quotations,
WRP
213–17

to organise in clubs
: Landes 145

occasioned by a false report
: George 436

Impudent women who…of the Fatherland
: The rest of the quotations in this chapter,
WRP
219–20, 160, 160

Chapter 13 · VICTIME

I can feel…to be confined
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
154, 156, 75, 156, 126, 156, 162, 163

How Robespierre loves blood
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Roux) 302

I cannot go…nearer to you
: The next quotations, Roland
Memoirs
252, 254, 258

sincere and ardent…longer reign here
: Roland
Lettres
II, 522–3

made no defence
: HMW 1796, I, 155

Romans again
: Outram 95

We are accused…are our functions
: Palmer
Twelve
71

in such a…his country’s shame
: HMW 1796 I, 163

sorte de joie
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Perroud) II, 484

My God I am sorry
: Schama 804

resolving to wait the appointed
: HMW 1796 I, 162

displayed a villainous…the greatest consternation
: Blanc 65

conspiring against the unity
: Roland
Memoirs
259

As for me…my unhappy husband
: Roland
Lettres
II, 529

seemed absorbed in profound meditations
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Perroud) II, 493

misfortunes and a long confinement
: May 280, quoting Riouffe

No woman could…had met death with…The tender and…his own heart
: The next quotations, Yonge I, 175, 175, 174, 178

It is for…see me pass
: The next quotations, Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Perroud) II, 489, 491

Long live the Republic
: Roland
Memoirs
259

You find me…they have shown
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Roux) 37

a certain joyfulness
: May 285

It suits you…fresh, calm, smiling
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Perroud) II, 494

O Libertè, que de crimes
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Roux) 38; Mercier
New Picture
I, 206. Another version is ‘O Libertè, comme on t’a jouée!’, Christiansen 115

What more than Roman fortitude
: HMW 1801 II, 63

he had died…covered with crimes
: May 290–1

She is no…you have lived
: Roland
Mémoires
(ed. Perroud) II, 269–70

the sword of…proud device
: The next quotations, Arasse 75, 74

familiarized, domesticated and commodified
: Stuart 134

It was not the love
: Arasse 89

she showed very…alarmed the mob
: Elliott 114

ambitious, without genius
: Stevenson iii

Children of the Fatherland
:
WRP
259

Oh fatal aspiration to fame
: Arasse 113

abnormal sexuality
: Melzer and Rabine 115

Marie-Antoinette was…of her sex
: Brooks 59

in so strange, so shocking
: Kotzebue II, 172, records Julie Talma’s account of Manon’s last night in prison

the faithless subject…was an author
: Plutarch III, 391

character renders beauty respectable
: Kelly 129

The Goddess: on a person
: Agulhon 30

that he had expelled
: Mercier
New Picture
II, 81

In Pau, the women of
…: Ozouf 101

Reason as the Supreme Being
: Schama 779

Republican woman, preserve…me to suffer
: Blanc 18

Chapter 14 · MAÎTRESSE

met a woman so endowed
: Gastine 113

Thèrésia and I, happy as
: Abrantes
Salons
III, 191

the roving reprèsentant…the great man
: Cobb
The Police
190

Between October and December Tallien
…: Vivie II, 143

Bleed the purses and level
: Ferrus 30

severe and sweet at
: Bourquin 128

You think that…moi vous embrassons
: Ferrus 117

He had rendered her some
: La Tour du Pin 196

for having intimate…fall into discredit
: Ferrus 165

as good as…You will be safe…encouraged by…All these enemies…importune you further
: The next quotations, La Tour du Pin 196, 196, 196, 198

Thèrésia stayed in the forbidding
…: See Ferrus 158 on whether she really was in prison in Bordeaux; it seems likely, but there is no conclusive evidence

Consider my terror…shrugged her shoulders
: La Tour du Pin 202

Such is the fate of
: Gilles 105

une ètrangère…question than Tallien
: Ferrus 187

His heavy and monotonous style
: Abrantes
Memoirs
I, 248

enemies to moral…will soon disappear
: Ferrus 196 et seq.

At intervals the expression
: Abrantes
Memoirs
I, 249

I risked my life
: Gilles 142

stopping for neither…a pathetic scene
: La Tour du Pin 203

You are an…I love Tallien
: Bickley 64

divine, heavenly libèratrice…devotion until death
: Gilles 127

loved gold
: Lage de Volude 172

these new Luculluses
: Ferrus 208

Luxury suits neither my principles
: Gilles 115

believe in the esteem
: Ferrus 216

with all the grace
: La Tour du Pin 209

spitting blood…was paying dear…that she had…Hand me…He did not speak…Believe me…a sort of honour…I will not…have been useful
: The next quotations, Lage de Volude 171, 172, 174, 175, 175, 183, 185, 186, 176

so out of…first she wanted to show…tears of joy
: The next quotations, La Tour du Pin 216, 216, 219

Anarchy from within…into the world
: Palmer
Twelve
5

If the mainspring…and inflexible justice
: Bienvenu 33

We seek an order
: Shulim 274

The grocers continue…haven of happiness
: Bienvenu 71–2

Some wish to…tempest be steered
: Palmer
Twelve
129

dangerous weakness…tears of repentance
: HMW 1796 II, 164

A revolution like ours
: Bouloiseau 37

the most daring courage
: HMW 1796 I, 13

who were not…of the earth
: Gilles 136

I cannot look at
: Ferrus 281

not to become…saluer mon papa
: The next quotations, HMW 1796 II, 28; III, 186

Adieu Loulou, adieu…going to die
: Schama 820

Among the victims…of its tenderness
: HMW 1796 I, 213

One can no…talk so loud
: The next quotations, Blanc 64, 63

Chapter 15 · LIBÉRATRICE

Bordeaux seems to…portion of the…petite, menton rond
: The next quotations, Gilles 148, 149–50 (excerpts from the document), 152

All the papers relating to
: Gastine 22

Never did Robespierre pursue
: Gilles 158, quoting Taschereau

silent streets and barricaded doors
: Frènilly 124

Everyone seemed to slip through
: Lacretelle 129

Women did not…doors securely closed
: Frénilly 125

to see what sort of
: HMW 1796 II, 67

impairing the purity of
: Schama 837

Arbitrary power against which
: Staël
Considerations
II, 33

crowded with commissaries and soldiers
: HMW 1796 I, 10

an important component
: Cobb
The French
17

Let her look in
: Gilles 165

The true priest…and feeling hearts
: Schama 831

proclaim himself king, open
: Hortense I, 36

When we are mothers
: Ozouf 116

You may kill…round with iron
: Yonge I, 180

United by the…No, he wants nothing…to the scaffold
: The next quotations HMW 1796 I, 19; II, 102; II, 102

unworthy of a…any political matter
:
WRP
231

he who would have been
: Hortense I, 34

A natural sentiment and
:
WRP
160

state of madness…suspect remarks
: Ernst 283

If you are…would second me
: Roudinesco 147

neither in his…of the people
: Gilles 172

was the Terror itself
: Barras I, 264

incapable of personal…at an end
: Staël
Considerations
II, 142

Tallien contended for two lives
: Fouché I, 16

that is to say…courage; calm yourself
: Ouvrard I, 18

I will go to my
: Ferrus 406

almost touching the guillotine
: Bienvenu 234

I am from no faction
: Gilles 183

It’s the blood of Danton
: Houssaye 5

Until now I…of the traitors
: Gilles 185

Do you suffer, your majesty
: Lyons 125

when the Thermidoreans killed Robespierre
: Bienvenu 3

victory of representative…most tragic discourse
: The next quotations, Furet
Interpreting
58, 61

too near a…oppose nor govern
: Fouché 15

at last, France is free
: Aulard
La Réaction
I, 6

To finish the revolution
: HMW 1796 IV, 172

Tallien! Thou raised thyself
: Mercier
New Picture
II, 89

still pleased with…openness of heart
: Wollstonecraft 259

I would prefer…weapon of tyranny
: The next quotations, Bienvenu 234, 305

Terror is a…of the soul
: Lajer-Burcharth 16

Je me porte…me porte bien
: HMW 1796 III, 181

the most beautiful day
: Gilles 191 (letter to Charles de Pougens)

Chapter 16 · ÉPOUSE