Note 22 — BOOK VII[1]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Manon Jeanne Roland (1754-1793), née Philipon, wife of Jean Marie Roland de La Platière, Minister of the Interior in 1791. She and her husband espoused the party of the Girondins; and Madame Roland was guillotined at the instance of the Mountain, 8 November 1793. Her husband killed himself on hearing the news.—T.