ROLAND, Jeanne-Marie Philipon (1754-1793,'Madame Roland'). Autograph manuscript fragment of a journal commenting on her future husband's account of his travels, n.p. [Amiens], 'Juin 1777', 4 pages, 4to (slightly browned, a few stains); and a small portrait engraving, notes and an English translation. Provenance : given by Madame Roland's daughter, Eudora Champagneux, to Dr Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (d.1832, the phrenologist and disciple of Gall; his annotations); and by him to Mrs Daniel Gaskell (wife of the first Member of Parliament for Wakefield) by whom it was bequeathed to her relative, Henry A. Bright, who published it in the Miscellanies of the Philobiblion Society (1872-76, vol. XIV).
ROLAND, Jeanne-Marie Philipon (1754-1793,'Madame Roland'). Autograph manuscript fragment of a journal commenting on her future husband's account of his travels, n.p. [Amiens], 'Juin 1777', 4 pages, 4to (slightly browned, a few stains); and a small portrait engraving, notes and an English translation. Provenance : given by Madame Roland's daughter, Eudora Champagneux, to Dr Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (d.1832, the phrenologist and disciple of Gall; his annotations); and by him to Mrs Daniel Gaskell (wife of the first Member of Parliament for Wakefield) by whom it was bequeathed to her relative, Henry A. Bright, who published it in the Miscellanies of the Philobiblion Society (1872-76, vol. XIV). An admiring commentary on her future husband's account of his travels: 'Cet homme a une ame noble et forte, un feu actif et pénétrant qui animent et vivifient ses Expressions et ses écrits; son oeil Philosophe'; she continues with praise for England's institutions including even 'l'Equité du code criminel ... la vigilance du magistrat, l'exactitude de la Police', mentioning her hero, Rousseau, before in a long introspective passage referring to her friendship with Sophie Cannet: '[J]e me réfugiai dans le sein d'une amie pour y goûter tous les charmes auxquels il fallait renoncer dans les liaisons ordinaires'. Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, an inspector of manufactures in Amiens, visited England in 1771. He was introduced to Jeanne-Marie Philipon, twenty years younger, by her friend, Sophie Cannet (the 'amie' referred to in the manuscript), in 1775 but left the next year on a long official tour of Italy; they married in 1780. Included as Appendix IV in the Mémoires , ed. C. Perroud (1905).
ROLAND, Jeanne-Marie Philipon (1754-1793,'Madame Roland'). Autograph manuscript fragment of a journal commenting on her future husband's account of his travels, n.p. [Amiens], 'Juin 1777', 4 pages, 4to (slightly browned, a few stains); and a small portrait engraving, notes and an English translation. Provenance : given by Madame Roland's daughter, Eudora Champagneux, to Dr Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (d.1832, the phrenologist and disciple of Gall; his annotations); and by him to Mrs Daniel Gaskell (wife of the first Member of Parliament for Wakefield) by whom it was bequeathed to her relative, Henry A. Bright, who published it in the Miscellanies of the Philobiblion Society (1872-76, vol. XIV).
ROLAND, Jeanne-Marie Philipon (1754-1793,'Madame Roland'). Autograph manuscript fragment of a journal commenting on her future husband's account of his travels, n.p. [Amiens], 'Juin 1777', 4 pages, 4to (slightly browned, a few stains); and a small portrait engraving, notes and an English translation. Provenance : given by Madame Roland's daughter, Eudora Champagneux, to Dr Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (d.1832, the phrenologist and disciple of Gall; his annotations); and by him to Mrs Daniel Gaskell (wife of the first Member of Parliament for Wakefield) by whom it was bequeathed to her relative, Henry A. Bright, who published it in the Miscellanies of the Philobiblion Society (1872-76, vol. XIV). An admiring commentary on her future husband's account of his travels: 'Cet homme a une ame noble et forte, un feu actif et pénétrant qui animent et vivifient ses Expressions et ses écrits; son oeil Philosophe'; she continues with praise for England's institutions including even 'l'Equité du code criminel ... la vigilance du magistrat, l'exactitude de la Police', mentioning her hero, Rousseau, before in a long introspective passage referring to her friendship with Sophie Cannet: '[J]e me réfugiai dans le sein d'une amie pour y goûter tous les charmes auxquels il fallait renoncer dans les liaisons ordinaires'. Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, an inspector of manufactures in Amiens, visited England in 1771. He was introduced to Jeanne-Marie Philipon, twenty years younger, by her friend, Sophie Cannet (the 'amie' referred to in the manuscript), in 1775 but left the next year on a long official tour of Italy; they married in 1780. Included as Appendix IV in the Mémoires , ed. C. Perroud (1905).
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