Marie-Jeanne RolandUne âme forte au milieu des Pygmées
- 1 Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, España
ISSN: 0047-4800, 1958-5926
Datum der Publikation: 2020
Nummer: 198
Seiten: 33-46
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Littérature
Zusammenfassung
Marie-Jeanne Roland is guillotined on November 8th, 1793. “Strongwoman” of the Roland government directed by her husband, she writes her Mémoires particuliers and some Notices historiques in prison, waiting for “the honor to mount the scaffold”. A unique testimony of a woman who writes under the sign of truth, as she knew she was condemned. A testimony formed under the sign of paradox because, while claiming herself innocent of the accusations leveled against her by her executioners, since she “is just a woman”, she asserts her superiority in front of these “faint-hearted beings”, these beings “who do not deserve the name of men” and who rule the fate of the French in this era of terror.