Marriage and Revolution

Monsieur and Madame Roland
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-956042-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 681 g

Marriage and Revolution is a double biography of Jean-Marie Roland (1734-1793) and Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, later Madame Roland (1754-1793), leading figures in the French Revolution. J.-M. Roland was minister of the Interior for a total of eight months during 1792. The couple were close to Brissot and the Girondins, and both died during the Terror. Mme Roland became famous for her posthumous prison memoirs and is the subject of many biographies, but her husband, despite being a key figure in administration of France, seldom out of the limelight during his time in office, is often marginalized in histories of the Revolution.

Siân Reynolds examines the Roland marriage from its beginnings in an ancien régime mésalliance, opposed by both families, through its close cooperation in the 1780s, to its final phase as a political partnership during the Revolution. Both Roland's actions as minister and Mme Roland's role as a woman close to power were praised and blamed at the time, and the controversies have persisted. Based on manuscript sources including many unpublished letters, Marriage and Revolution sets out to examine an unusually companionate marriage over the long term: its intimacy, parenthood, everyday life in the provinces, friendships, academic cooperation, political enthusiasms and quarrels, and finally its dramatic ending during the Revolution.

Zielgruppe

Academics and students of French history; the general reader interested in biographies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reynolds, Sian

Reynolds, Siân

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Prologue: 4 February 1780

- Introduction

- Part I: Getting Married: Before 1780

- 1: The Bride's Story 1: The child Manon

- 2: The Bride's Story 2: Becoming an Enlightenment woman: Marie-Jeanne

- 3: The Groom's Story 1: Odd man out

- 4: The Groom's Story 2: Turgot's disciple

- 5: Who to marry? Suitors and fiancé(e)s

- Part II: Married life: 1780-1789

- 6: Bonjour Loup! Living together

- 7: Educating Eudora: Parenthood together

- 8: Essays and Academies: Writing together

- 9: Leaving the North: To the Beaujolais together

- 10: The Calm before the Storm: Housekeeping together

- Part III: Revolution: Bliss to be Alive 1789-1791

- 11: 1789: Watching from Lyon

- 12: 1790: Joining the Municipal Revolution

- 13: 1790: A Community of Friends?

- 14: 1791: When is a Salon not a Salon? Parisian circles

- 15: 1791: After Varennes

- 16: 1791: Provincial life has lost its charms

- Part IV: In the Thick of it

- 17: March 1792: What, no Buckles? The Brissotin Ministry

- 18: Summer 1792: Minister of the King

- 19: June-August 1792: Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire

- 20: August-September 1792: Invasion and Massacre

- 21: 1792-1793: Minister of the Republic: Grain and Museums

- 22: 'This astonishing lady': What did the Minister's Wife do all day?

- 23: 1792-1793: The Bureau d'esprit public: Fact or Fantasy?

- Part V: The Closing Trap

- 24: January-May 1793: Nobody's Minister

- 25: January-November 1793: Marie-Jeanne in Love

- 26: 31 May 1793: One Night in Summer

- 27: June-October 1793: A la vie et à la mort: Prison and Flight

- 28: November 1793: The Tribunal and the Swordstick

- Sources and Bibliography

- Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Reynolds, Siân
Siân Reynolds was born and educated in Cardiff, read Modern Languages at St Anne's College, Oxford, and has a doctorate in History from the University of Paris-VII, supervised by Michelle Perrot. She has taught in secondary schools, adult education, the Universities of Sussex and Edinburgh, and was Professor of French at the University of Stirling from 1990-2004. She has published books on both French and Scottish history, and translated works by leading French historians such as Fernand Braudel, as well as detective novels by Fred Vargas. She is a past president of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France, and is currently Chair of the Scottish Working People's History Trust.