Madame Roland (17 March 1754 - 8 November 1793), was, together with her husband Jean-Marie Roland de la Plati re, a supporter of the French Revolution and influential member of the Girondist faction. She fell out of favour during the Reign of Terror and died on the guillotine. The history of Madame Roland embraces the most interesting events of the French Revolution, that most instructive tragedy which time has yet enacted. There is, perhaps, contained...