Jeanne-Marie Roland de La Platière, dite Madame Roland - Appel à l'impartiale postérité, par la citoyenne Roland, femme du ministre de l'Intérieur - 1795

Jeanne-Marie Roland de La Platière, known as Madame Roland. Call to impartial posterity, by the citizen Roland, wife of the Minister of the Interior, or Collection of the writings she drafted during her detention, in the prisons of the Abbaye and Sainte-Pélagie. Paris, Louvet, Year III [1795], viii-128 pp., iv-106 pp., 116 pp., 139 pp.

One octavo volume (190x125 mm), full sheepskin, smooth spine adorned, red goatskin label (binding of the period). Fine binding condition. Interior fresh

Original edition; four parts gathered in a single volume (complete)

The Call to impartial posterity gathers the writings composed by Madame Roland during her imprisonment, after the fall of the Girondins in June 1793. Arrested in June, imprisoned at the Abbey then at Sainte-Pélagie, she writes personal memories, political reflections, portraits of contemporaries and letters addressed notably to her daughter. She defends her political action, revisits the revolutionary events, and explains her conception of liberty, virtue, and the Republic.

Condemned to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal, Madame Roland is guillotined on 8 November 1793. Her writings are subsequently collected and published in 1795 by Louis-Augustin-Guillaume Bosc, her friend and guardian of her manuscripts.