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
Winner of the fourteenth annual R.H. Gapper Book Prize, from the Scoiety for French Studies
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.
[a] sympathetic, but also critical and always scholarly biography
... it was the great tragedy of the Terror that former colleagues
should round on each other. Not only did those who had frequented
the Rolands, from Brissot to Danton and Robespierre, preish in the
process, but so too did the fraternal republic. It is the great
merit of Reynold's book to demonstrate how both the Rolands shaped
and shared this dreadful fate.
*Malcolm Crook, History Today*
Thoroughly researched and clearly written, Marriage and Revolution
is an important contribution to our understanding of the
interaction between private lives and public affairs in the
revolutionary era. It also offers new insights into the nature of
the "Brissotin" movement and the way in which the revolutionary
government functioned prior to the establishment of the Committee
of Public Safety in mid-1793.
*Jeremy Popkin, H-France Review*
Reynolds succeeds in correcting a great deal of the mythology
surrounding Madame Roland. This significant monograph is a
vindication of Roland, a figure who has been has been overshadowed
by not only his wife, but also historians focus on parliamentary
assemblies rather than ministries.
*Leigh Whaley, French History*
This is feminist scholarship at its most current and at its very
best. ...a brilliant example of situated, materialist
biography.
*Professor Bill Burgwinkle, King's College, Cambridge*
Siân Reynolds is thus to be congratulated for devising a new and
revealing perspective on her subject in this scholarly and highly
readable work.
*Colin Jones, English Historical Review*
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