Mrs. Eddy Mentioned Them April 9, 1955 Issue

Mme. Manon Phlipon Roland, 1754-1793

[Mentioned in Science and Health, p. 161]

"Plutarch seemed to be exactly the nourishment that suited my mind. I shall never forget the .... time I was nine years old, when I carried it to church instead of my prayer-book. From that time I date the impressions and ideas that made me a republican." Thus did Mme. Roland, writing in prison, reveal the influence that from girlhood had molded her ideas.

Having no companions of her own age, she found pleasure in reading and in identifying herself with the characters she read about. With the exception of one year, her life until she married was spent in the heart of Paris. Once she and her mother visited Versailles where one of Marie Antoinette's ladies-in-waiting loaned them her apartment. Writing to a friend, Manon observed, "If before coming into the world I had had my choice of a government, I should have chosen a republic."

Her marriage to an inspector of manufactures took her to the Provinces. Besides being a model wife, she edited her husband's articles for the "Dictionary of Manufactures." She also became acquainted with economic problems and learned firsthand of the peasants' discontent.

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