Source: National Archives & Historic Records of Kingdom of France
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Madame Roland 🇫🇷

Marie-Jeanne Phlipon (Madame Roland) (Known as "Manon Roland")
Girondin Revolutionary Leader, Political Salon Host, Author of Mémoires, Guillotined
Born Mar 17, 1754 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Passed Away Nov 08, 1793 Paris (Place de la Révolution), French Republic
Lifespan 39 years old
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"O Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom! (O Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!)."

Archival Overview

Brilliant intellectual leader and moral soul of the Girondin faction in the French Revolution, whose political salon steered ministerial policy and who uttered the immortal dying words: 'O Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!'.

Biographical Record

Daughter of a Paris engraver, Manon Phlipon devoured Plutarch and Rousseau as a prodigy. Marrying Jean-Marie Roland de La Platière, she drafted his political correspondence when he was appointed Minister of the Interior in 1792, functioning as the undeclared intellectual leader of the Girondin government.

Arrested by the Jacobins in June 1793 during the purge of the Girondins, she spent five months in prison composing her luminous Appel à l'impartiale postérité (Mémoires). Mounting the scaffold on November 8, 1793, she bowed toward the statue of Liberty in Place de la Révolution to deliver her immortal cry.

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Final Resting Place

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Madeleine Cemetery
Paris, France
GPS: 48.8736, 2.3256
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