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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

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