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The plebeian maiden could utter the same exclamation in accents of joyfulness. Sophia Cannet. Roland de la Platière. M. Roland. His personal appearance. Character of M. Roland. First impressions. Jane's appreciation of M. Roland. Minds and hearts. Journal of M. Roland. His notes on Italy. The light in which Jane and M. Roland regard each other. M. Roland professes his attachment. Feelings of Jane.
From Amiens, M. Roland removed to the city of Lyons, his native place, in which wider sphere he continued the duties of his office as Inspector General of Commerce and Manufactures. In the winter they resided in the city. During the summer they retired to M. Roland's paternal estate, La Platière, a very beautiful rural retreat but a few miles from Lyons.
That I might be nearer at hand, I left my hotel at Quentin, and went to lodge at the Tennis Court, Rue Verdelet, which leads into the Rue Platiere, where M. Dupin lived. There, in consequence of a cold neglected, I contracted an inflammation of the lungs that had liked to have carried me off.
Horror of the courtiers. M. Roland's opinion of the king. Madame Roland's advice. Her opinion of kings and courtiers. Madame Roland was thus living at La Platière, in the enjoyment of all that this world can give of peace and happiness, when the first portentous mutterings of that terrible moral tempest, the French Revolution, fell upon her ears.
These intellectual employments ever possessed for her peculiar attractions. The scientific celebrity of M. Roland, and his political position, attracted many visitors to La Platière; consequently, they had, almost invariably, company to dine.
This woman, who had just left the centre of faction and business, returned to La Platière to resume the cares of her rustic household and the pruning of her vines. But she had quaffed of the intoxicating cup of the Revolution. The movement in which she had participated for a moment impelled her still, though at a distance.
Danger of Robespierre. He is concealed by Madame Roland. Baseness of Robespierre. The Assembly dissolved. The Rolands again at La Platière. They return to Paris. Plots and counterplots. Political maneuvering. Massacres and conflagrations. The king insulted and a prisoner. The king surrenders. M. Roland Minister of the Interior. Madame Roland in a palace. M. Roland's first appearance at court.
On the declivity of one of these sandy protuberances was La Platière, the paternal inheritance of M. Roland, a low farm-house, with regular windows, covered with a roof of red tiles nearly flat; the eaves of this roof project a little beyond the wall, in order to protect the windows from the rain of winter and the summer's sun.
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