Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1919 — Death of Madame Roland. [ARTICLE]

Death of Madame Roland.

The terrible French revolution brought many women as well as men Into prominence, some for their genius, some for their crimes and some for their misfortunes. Among the' number was Mme. Roland, wife of a famous adherent of the revolution, who was guillotined November 8, 1798. As she passed to the scaffold, she gazed at a gigantic statue of Liberty erected near It and exclaimed, “O Liberty I how many crimes are committed In thy name!" Mme. Roland was not only a good but a beautiful woman,.and the guillotine took the life of one who was, perhaps, the most remarkable woman of the French revolution.