Manon Roland, ou Jeanne Marie, ou Manon Phlipon, comumente chamada Madame Roland, Viscondessa Roland de la Platière por casamento, nascida em 17 de Março de 1754 em Paris e morta na guilhotina em 8 de Novembro de 1793 também em Paris, é figura importante na Revolução Francesa.
Desempenhou um papel considerável no seio do Partido Girondino e levou seu marido ao primeiro plano da política francesa.
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“O tédio é a doença dos corações sem sentimentos e das almas pobres.”
Ennui is the disease of hearts, without feeling, and of minds that have no resources in themselves.
An appeal to impartial posterity - Volume 1, Página 47 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=adsRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA47, Roland (Marie-Jeanne, Mme), Louis Augustin ... - Printed by Robert Wilson, For A. Van Hook, Proprietor of the Reading-Room, 1798
“O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!”
On being led to her execution, sometimes stated to have been directed at a specific statue of Liberty, in Memoirs, Appendix; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), and in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922); used by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Essay on Mirabeau.
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O liberté, comme on t'a jouée!
O Liberty, how thou hast been played with!
As quoted in Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France (1795) by Helen Maria Williams, Vol. 1, p. 201 http://books.google.de/books?id=FTkuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA201