Author: WILLCOCKS, M. P.
Title: Madame Roland or the Mirror of Men's Dreams
Description: London, Hutchinson. 1936, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Portrait of Madame Roland to frontispiece and 18 other illustrations. Gilt title on light blue cloth boards which have some fading to edges and a slightly faded spine. Internally there is a book plate to front pastedown and neat name and date to front endpaper else clean, tight and unmarked. 324 pages. 32 page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. An excellent biography of the queen of a coterie of young and elegant enthusiasts including the leaders of the Gironde, who was guillotined in November 1793, havng spent five month's in prison. On hearing of his wife's death, her husband, a former minister of the interior, two days later committed suicide by falling on his sword. NOT EX LIBRARY A1C. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: French Revolution, Jeanne-Marie Philipon, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platiere, Marie Antoinette, Robespierre


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